Finished

So the brief is over and we put our work up in the link gallery for a week.
I have a newly restored love for sound recording and all things audio and thankfully now I have many new ways I can work with it.

the little film is just a compilation of all the sequences I made and you can see it on you tube here if you want.

http://youarehearav.blogspot.co.uk/

manchester street sounds

recordings in the city

you tube link: HERE

maps and postcards and other stuff

bits and pieces for the display for presentation and exhibition

postcards, riso printed

quiet

A little sequence with the recordings made in the Central Library reading room and the John Rylands library reading room set with quotes about silence.

watch on You tube here

Here are the quotes I collected for the clip.
Some interesting food for thought.

 

deadline looming

Deadline in a few days and I am just trying to get everything put together tidily for the ten minute presentation we need to give on Thursday. I would definitely classify this as more of an adventurey researchy wandery around type project that is more about documenting the process than delivering a "final piece". The outcome is just the process, all the stuff I gathered and recorded along the way.

I did put it all together in this blog here that you here are reading and possibly hearing here and then in the travel journal style book I made:

I just cut up some Manchester maps and letter pressed on them for the front cover...

It is deliberately executed in a pretty rough and ready style as it is meant to reflect an explorers journal, field notes type of thing that would be battered around a bit from being carted about on adventures far and wide, as mine surely is!

This little sequence is "sketches" from the Listening exhibition at the Bluecoat gallery in Liverpool, a seriously great exhibition of all kinds of sound art, I think Laurie Anderson's handphone table was the most fun, I could see spending a lot longer on that one.

compilation

I am making a couple of little compilations of the sounds and images I have been recording. This one is busy and noisy sounds with pictures of quiet places.

watch on youtube HERE

You Are Hear Location: Liverpool

Liverpool, Merseyside
53.4000° N, 3.0000° W
February 4th 2015

sound walk for about 6 and a half minutes,
Loads of really cool varied sounds 

Busker on the Albert Docks

 

Sounds in the Blucoat gallery

 with the Listening exhibition

Here more clips from listening

In the Tate, Claude Parent wooden floor gallery

St Lukes Church

St Lukes

Seagulls and street sounds

Melodic garbage truck

Seel Street

stitching it all together...

....into a little film type thing in Premier Pro. It is 16 minutes long and I am just going to play it on a loop so people can come along and see bits and pieces as and when.

EDIT: this is rubbish, I shelved it and did a few other shorter ones that make a bit more sense, still this was a good starting point for that.

Basically I wanted to present the sounds along side images that are unrelated, all the sounds and images were taken for this project so you will see a beach, hear it later, hear some hail, see it later etc to see how the your feelings about either the pictures or the sound would change depending on what is with it .

Manchester Libraries, recording quiet places

So one of the initial ideas I had for this project was to map quiet places, create a map of quiet places to go around the city or find ways to create and find quiet space in a noisy city. Manchester is not a city with a great deal of parks large enough for quiet reflection, any significant green space in the city centre or anywhere really that can be said to be "quiet", and I don't mean silent, of course just, you know, not on the street sound levels.
So, of course I thought to start the quiet map in the incredible collection of libraries we have here.


January 28th
-Manchester Central Library   53.4781° N, 2.2447° W
-John Rylands Library        -2.2484600W, 53.4802800N
-Portico Library                 53.479721N,-2.240696W

Reading room, Central Library

Outside in the music library area

One of the old original pin boards they kept when the library was renovated

Rylands library

reading room, Rylands library

Portico library, lunch time