The three main artists i will be analysing are the LIFT organisation artists Dan Scott, Edaward George, and Sue Mayo who were also the artists of which we spent a three day session understanding the importance of process and archiving for our memories project.
Sue Mayo
Sue is our lead artist on the project. Since 2008 she has been developing innovative participatory work for the LIFT Living Archive, exploring ways of bringing to life the collection with educational and community groups. Sue is a theatre maker and community artist with 30 years of experience and endless energy. By bringing together different art forms she enables diverse community groups to create their own work; writing, performance, visual practice or site-specific work. She is Associate Artist for Magic Me, the UK’s leading inter-generational arts organization and Associate tutor on the MA in Applied Drama at Goldsmith’s, University of London. - http://www.liftfestival.com/events/past-events/and-the-winner-islondon/the-artists
What Sue says about the project:
"The work that the participants discover through the archive opens their eyes to new ways of working, and making performance. It has been exciting for us as artists to use different shows from the LIFT archive in each school, and to develop completely different pieces in each place."
Dan Scott
Dan is our sound artist on the project. He has been working with the children to create soundscapes of their school environments, record interviews, and make unusual sounds using everyday objects. Dan completed an MA in Sound Arts at the London College of Communication and has taken his recording equipment all over Europe for performances, exhibitions, concerts and residences. He has lead several workshops and is a tutor on listening and aurality at Central School of Speech and Drama. Look out for his work at the Roundhouse for NetAudio 2011.
"This track is based on the sounds of the doorbells found in two of the four buildings here at Sproutbau. We walked through each of the buildings, recording the wide variety of tones, pitches and rings from the bells, working our way slowly through all the apartments. The final track uses bells in just one key, and explores the resonant effect of different spaces, and different connotations of certain sounds." http://sproutbaurecord.blogspot.com/
Link to the Dan's site and the track
http://www.trishscott.org/sproutmusic.htm#First impressions
The piece reminded me of the strange minimalist music that often have irregular rhythms with reoccurring sounds the various sounds put together aren't generally complimentary and so sound dissonant and often clash creating an unsettling atmosphere.
Description
- Uses effects such as panning manipulating the space of sound
- Uses various generic door bell sounds
- The different melodies are partially combined to make different rhythms
- Constantly irregular in rhythm
- Simple melodies turned complex
- The various sounds are often reoccurring
- Unsettling tone
- Clashing of different melodic sounds
- Certain sounds are startling due to the irregular rhythm Attention is drawn to the various doorbell sounds
Facts
- Uses generic doorbell sounds
- Edited using sound editing software
- Collaboration piece of 50 sound artists including Dan himself
- Each individual sound was recorded separately >> http://dai.ly/l4c2Kz
- All in one Key
Analysis
Its hard to determine the mood as it doesn't really follow the rules within contemporary music and it's more rhythmically oriented but, I think the piece is very experimental and its kind of unsettling in that sense that were not used to hearing such music. the sound was created by taking different doorbell sounds which were individual melodies and created a new piece based on them. Getting the sounds all in one key and deciding on the pieces structure I believe must have been the hardest part in the production of the composition. The media used was probably microphones an empty space and music production software and I think the artists have done well in collecting the different doorbell sounds and working together in putting there individual touch on how to structure the sounds and taking a single idea and somewhat exploring it. Edward GeorgeEdward is a visual and sound artist, writer, director and producer. He co-founded the multi-media arts group Flow Motion with Anna Piva in 1996 and their sound art performances have taken place at the Lilian Baylis Theatre, and the Science Museum Dana Centre in London as well as other international destinations. Edward was Artistic Associate for the Bernie Grant Arts Centre in 2010 and is currently working on a collaborative on-line archival project exploring the theme of the Promised Land. - http://www.liftfestival.com/events/past-events/and-the-winner-islondon/the-artists
Promised Lands project - http://www.iniva.net/pl/intro/
First impressions The site explores the theme Promised lands and how it has transcended through time in music through the ages. I think that it is kind of daunting and inspiring how one idea has effectively been and inspiration for composers in music for centuries and this site is used to trace back their earliest findings.
Facts: They've traced 100 songs relating to the theme The website was created in 2008 The two artists involved are Edward George and Anna Piva There earliest finding so far is in 1707 created during an artist research residency at the international institue of visual arts (Iniva) Description: Basic site filled with information about 'Promised Lands' Calming single images on each webpage that may be related to the theme promised lands Has introductory to how the project has progressed Archives music related to the theme 'Promised lands' Analysis: The site has both a religious and secular mood, religious because it is has proven to be a significant influence in music through the ages and secular because it explores a theme of interest that continues to be of both influence and importance. I think the site is very informative and uses archiving as a form of documentation in how a term or phrase can be interpreted throughout the ages through time. The hardest thing I believe was the researching and locating of music throughout the ages relating to the theme, I think they have done well in getting a broad range of content from the 18th century to present day.
