Archive for April, 2008

Task 01 - Reduced Listening

April 21st, 2008

Ok people this is my first attempt at the reduced listening task. The concept behind it is pretty simple. I have taken an everyday recognizable sound (sheep bah) and transformed it into something unrecognisable by changing the sonic qualities of the sound. The same sound material is used throughout, but simply repeated and then treated heavily using […]

Task 06 - Musical interpretation of a set painting

April 21st, 2008

For this task we were assigned to write music that we feel best interprets a set painting. I chose a painting by Robert Delaunay. It is a spiral with lots of fragmented colours which become rather hypnotic the nearer the centre you get in the spiral. Many of Delaunay’s paintings are very abstract and I […]