Category: Audio Cultures

When looking back at last years blog posts i realised that a lot of my reflection was internal and related to mental health issues as well as how i responded to sound as a relieving healing process. I find sound itself to provide me with escapism.

I’ve read a couple paragraphs and find a lot that relates with my thought process. It starts by speaking with escapism as a more geographical thing. Escaping the harshness of the wild we used to live in. Escaping the rain, the cold weather with a warm city home. But it continues to speak about cultures as a escapism perhaps the largest one. I think this will influence my piece towards the end of the assessment hand in. I think sound can transport us and immerse ourselves more than we think. Am i able to use sound to help people with mental health.

What are the most important issues in Sound Art today for you as an
artist, and as the consumer?

For myself it would be the accessibility the practice has among its culture.

What are your main influences as a Sound Artist?

For me its escapism within the art form. Music concrète as well, the abstractness towards that art form interests me heavily. I also come from a working class multi cultural background. I want to use sound to share cultures and different ways of life. Moving around a lot as a child allowed me to experience a varied sonic landscape which i want to share with other people.

What are your main influences as a presenter?

Mainly podcasts and youtube video essays. As well as radio shows, the clear talking speech they have when communicating.

What are your main influences as a writer on Sound Art?

I’m unsure at this current moment, i need to do some more reading into my area of choice and passion towards my audio document. As a writer i come from a hip hop / rap background and find vocabulary interesting. as well as sentences that flow together.

I visted an exhibition / screen filming by Onyeka Igwe called A So-Called Archive. Themes of colonialism were heavily present in this, which as a person from Brazilian/Portuguese descent i feel strange with. Seeing as the country i grew up in (Brazil) was colonised by my other half the Portuguese.

The 20 minute screening showed two locations in contrast to each other. Both being colonial archive buildings. One in Lagos, Nigeria, and the other in Bristol, United Kingdom. This contrast was shown throughout the film. Showcasing old archive buildings torn about, destroyed and full cobwebs. Decayed walls and dead animals laid around, with stacks of rusted film boxes holding hundreds of hours of archival information. The Uk has had a huge colonial history, its controlled lots of other countries and I find it interesting to see how they handle the archives of other countries when they were so eager to take over them at first but then when it came to persevering their culture and history they are absent as the buildings shown.

In contrast to things we have learnt throughout the module so far. She has a powerful statement for doing this. She is Nigerian and so has a passion to speak about this colonial past that England has tried to glorify and hide.