We are dedicated to hunting down and exposing sound exploits and noisy goings on in London.
LSA wants to know if you are up to something – eg. vibrating something, hitting something with a stick, tape recording something, listening to someone hitting something with a stick, sitting in a dark room humming, writing a book on the acoustic qualities of breakfast cereals (Rice Crispies dominating the scene no doubt, followed by Coco-Pops, then maybe Start - it’s quite crunchy), running workshops on how to hit things with sticks, gaffer taping Speak and Spells to chickens, reversing vacuum cleaners through brass instruments etc.
Yeah, we’re interested.
language sound text noise.
Editing together a mini doc on the ‘Oramics’ synth as made and pioneered in the 50′s by Daphne Oram of the BBC Radiophonics workshop. Uses drawing on 35mm film to manipulate sound waves generated through a kitchen cabinet filled with electronics (literally).
I was there to film in Brixton earlier this year when the synth was delivered back to the UK to be restored after 30 years in a french shed.
You interested in putting it up when it’s done?
Nick
yeah for sure.
that is so cool.
London Sound Survey at http://www.soundsurvey.org.uk.
Fund hobbies, not art.
What do you mean? Whose hobbies?
I think every borough should have a kind of hobby workshop space, where you’d have access to lathes, workbenches, soldering irons etc, maybe even a small foundry. Plus a lock-up cupboard to store your project bits and pieces in. Not everyone’s got a garden shed or garage for doing stuff like that in, city-dwellers in particular.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/documentaries/2010/03/100317_shed_men.shtml
That’s the stuff.
A new performance opportunity and sound night – http://soundandmusic.org/network/opportunities/130441
HEY
I’ma composer of my own Sound-ART get in contact with me.
debojtella@yahoo.co.uk
http://soundcloud.com/immanuel-1/1-theropy-colours
Hi ive just moved to london and am a performer of slimey noisy stuff and was wondering if anyone could help me out in finding places to perform? Im not asking to be set up with a gig just wondering if someone could hope point me in the right direction.
Love the blog, its great to find things like this.
Thanks
ummm – how slimey?
As slimey as wet pasta?
http://www.soundsnap.com/node/114175
Hi there,
With the John Cage centennial being this year, you may be interested in a project I created last year called ‘Some London Life’. I may also be getting a couple of related works in some public space this summer too. I’m always open to projects and collaboration so feel free to get in touch if you like.
‘Some London Life’: http://www.Jay-Harris.co.uk/?page_id=1373
Cheers,
Jay
Here’s some blurb on where it came from:
“I started with John Cage’s notions that all sounds within a performance are relevant and can make a contribution. In his ‘4’ 33’’’ and ‘Silent Prayer’ I saw the possibility of an individual’s focus being allowed to let in noises that occurred during a performance but not necessarily intended as part of the performance. I found it interesting that I could use any sounds that naturally occur, and are therefore out of my control, but reverse John Cage’s notions of freedom and work against elitist musical symbolism to form them into something of my own desire and force meaning into them by changing how the sounds were presented; the depiction of journey and London as carefree were ideas that I wanted to inject into ‘Some London Life’. What essentially happened was a focus on various atmospheres and spaces that were created from the real spaces I visited, but re-ordered to convey my own thoughts. It was hoped that although these meanings were abstract and forced into symbolism, the natural sounds would trigger thoughts in the head of the listener that would be relevant to their life whether to not they understood the language of music. This is because, although many people in the world may not be able to recognise the sound of a viola, for example, the sound of a car or trees moving in the wind, would be readily available from memory and therefore more easily understood and processed.”