Masters project proposal

Synopsis for my masters project masters_synopsis.doc

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James Turrell

I can’t beleive I’ve been working with this light projection project for a year and not mentioned James Turrell (an artist who works exclusively with light and atmosphere) in the blog once…
I first became aware of his work in my teens, when I went to his exhibition somewhere in London. It was a square room [...]

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Story telling in music… Ravel’s Ondine

I went to a piano recital at the John Innes centre last night, Milan Miladinovic was playing a varied program, including Bach, Ravel, Chopin & Liszt. He was quite an astonishing pianist, I was captivated! Huge dynamic variation and accuracy in some incredibly technically difficult pieces. In addition to the musical drama, he gave some [...]

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Quote from photographer Jeff Wall

I’m not sure quite how it can relate to my work, but I find his ideas on gesture quite interesting…
‘ The contracted little actions, the involuntarily expressive body movements which lend themselves so well to photography are what remains in every day life of the older idea of gesture as the bodily, pictorial form of [...]

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Critical Evaluation Self Negotiated sound project

The critical evaluation of the sound project

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Problems with the Tangomagia performance

One of the obstacles I was aware would have to be overcome, was that the performance space was the dance floor on which a hundred or more people would be dancing for several hours before the performance began. I had been worrying for some time about the logistics of this. How I would be able [...]

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back in the sound room

Tom helped to unscramble my slightly confused logic project in a tutorial last week. With everything straight it was easier to start working with the tracks one by one. I spent some time making sure the levels for each instrument peaked in the right places, and used a compressor to narrow the dynamic range slightly [...]

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The Choreography

Working with the program, trying to show all the different possibilities we wove together a rough narrative within the dance. It’s a shame we hadn’t done this before I started putting the sound piece together because it would have been a good starting point to know how the mood of the dance was going to [...]

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Amsterdam

iTango was performed in front of a large audience at the Tangomagia festival in Amsterdam in December.
Some things went very well… the set up was much more professional than it has been in the past, the cradle I had made for the projector and camera to be mounted on the rig worked beautifully, not a [...]

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