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Makings & Musings Podcast35. Sketchbook Series - Sketching with the Greats: How Historical Artists Used SketchbooksIn this episode, I explore how legendary artists like Leonardo da Vinci, J.M.W. Turner, and Frida Kahlo used their sketchbooks as tools for creativity, experimentation, and self-expression. We dive into their methods, inspirations, and what their sketchbooks reveal about their artistic journeys.Want to see these sketchbooks yourself? Here are links to some incredible resources:Leonardo da Vinci's Codex Arundel (British Library): https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/leonardo-da-vincis-codex-arundelLeonardo da Vinci's Codex Atlanticus (Biblioteca Ambrosiana): https://www.ambrosiana.it/en/codex-atlanticus/J.M.W. Turner's Sketchbooks (Tate Collection): https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks...2025-02-2312 min
Ms ArtasticHow to Use Sketchbooks in Your Classroom or Homeschooling Program
Discover how to effectively integrate sketchbooks into your classroom or homeschooling program with our detailed tutorial. This video guides you through the benefits and techniques of using sketchbooks to enhance creativity and artistic skills among students. Whether for daily practice, project planning, or personal expression, sketchbooks are invaluable tools in any educational setting.
Make sure to check out our next video, "How to Use Grid Draws in Your Classroom or Homeschooling Program": • How to Use Grid Draws to Teach Art Sk...
For a wide range of sketchbook resources, visit our TPT store: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/S...
✏️Are you Looking for Art Less...2025-01-1210 min
The Laura Horn Art Podcast175. 5 Creative Ways to Use Sketchbooks in Your Art ProcessThis week, Richie and I discuss how my sketchbooks came to the rescue, providing comfort after a challenging week of admin. This leads us to explore the many ways sketchbooks can benefit artists. Whether for observation, experimentation, therapy, inspiration gathering, or colour palette organisation, sketchbooks offer incredible versatility. We chat about approaches used by artists like Matisse and Frida Kahlo, and share some modern-day examples as well. Whether you’re seeking comfort or aiming to push your creative boundaries, this episode will inspire you to see your sketchbook in fresh and exciting ways.
Mentioned...2024-09-0131 min
Art Alchemy : Authentic Conversations on Art and Cultivating a Creative MindSketchbooksDive into the captivating
realm of sketchbooks.
Please bear with us as we have had a few techy
issues and have lost Ruth’s visual in places… you still get to see her sketchbooks though. And when I say ‘see’
we have discussed our sketchbooks for audio but it is well worth catching us either in YouTube or on our Spotify channel as they both have visual too.
We explore how different types of sketchbooks are used and for what purpose.
Get a peek into ours...2024-06-091h 01
Artists in ConversationSketchbooksIn this episode Maryann and Jessica talk all about sketchbooks. They cover their avoidance of sketchbooks, their reluctant attempt to get in the habit of using them, and eventually their understanding of how they can be helpful in supporting their painting practice. With the usual tangents along the way. Enjoy!You can find an episode summary and images on the following website:https://www.artbyjpl.com/projects/sketchbooksImage 1 - Frida Kahlo sketchbook - coverImage 2 - Frida Kahlo sketchbook- inside spreadImage 3 - Example of Jessica's 3-color sketches with marker I...2024-03-1154 min
Art SenseEp. 122: Pace CEO Marc Glimcher "Picasso: 14 Sketchbooks"A conversation with Pace Gallery CEO Marc Glimcher about the gallery’s current Picasso exhibit which honors the artist on the 50th anniversary of his passing. The exhibit, titled “Picasso: 14 Sketchbooks”, is just that - fourteen sketchbooks that provide unrivaled insights into the development of iconic Picasso artworks over a period of nearly sixty years.https://www.pacegallery.com/exhibitions/picasso-14-sketchbooks/https://www.fabarte.org/es/2023-11-2143 min
I Heard You Can Draw!E2: How to Find Your Creativity with Sketchbooks!Today I'm going to talk about the three things that I love about sketchbooks: 1. You can play and experiment in them without feeling judged. You can create freely. 2. You can document life and your thoughts and your artistic progress over the years, and 3. You can gain insight into other artists’ minds by looking at other artists’ sketchbooks. Some are even published that you can purchase. If you want to start keeping a sketchbook, or you have a child or student who is interested in art, I have four prompts for you to t...2023-10-1122 min
The Process553 - DIY Sketchbooks, The Sub & A Catchup - Part 2
Industrial Design, Creative Inspiration & Personal Projects!
Today we chat about Zak's dinosaur scrapbook, designing our own sketchbooks and the Youtube sensation Scott Yu-Jan.
Industrial Design, Creative Inspiration & Personal Projects!
Zak's dinosaur scrapbook
Zak's black paper sketchbook
Designing our own sketchbooks
Scitt Yu-Jan
Taking stuff apart
All the links, all the time! Industrial Design, Creativity & Inspiration!
For Industrial Design related business inquiries:
Big Design Company Website: www.bigdesigncompany.com
Big Design Company email...2023-07-0734 min
Grupo de autoayuda de dibujoEp. 71 - Sketchbooks tourEn este episodio Mayorquín y Pardo se adentran en los sketchbooks del otro. Tomamos un sketchbook viejito y uno no-tan-viejito para platicar sobre lo que pasa tras bambalinas de lo que enseñamos al mundo. Si están en CDMX, les invitamos a la exposición de "Mentalidad de Sketchbook" en la que conseguimos los sketchbooks de 23 artistas y podrás ir a hojearlos y cargarse de inspiración. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2023-02-2354 min
sonic sketchbooks75 SONIC SKETCHBOOKSThis composition is built from various new recordings of encounters with insects and birds, and wind-song heard through a gap in the wall of a remote rural building, wound together with outputs from various synthesisers - modular and otherwise -, a temporary sonic-kinetic sculpture made from tins and containers, and recordings of analogue, generated sounds I find interesting such as a quartz pebble bounced around on the steel tray of an old dustpan, and tapping a collection of antique porcelain plates displayed on a weatherboard farmhouse wall.
With many of the small digital audio generators I’ve bought over the pa...2023-02-1424 min
sonic sketchbooks74 SONIC SKETCHBOOKS - pleximetriesI’ve long been collecting individual sounds of everyday objects like saucepan lids, wine glasses, tools and implements, vessels and containers. I strike the object once with something, perhaps a chopstick with a rubber band wound around one end, a wooden spoon or something else to hand, and record the sound it makes. Of course, any object can be coaxed to generate a variety of sounds depending on what it is struck with, where and with what intensity.
I call this my Pleximetry series, named for the medical diagnostic method of tapping the chest and other body areas. Forms of th...2023-01-3125 min
sonic sketchbooks73 SONIC SKETCHBOOKS - cicada songrelease date: 24 january 2023
This new composition drifts across and through various sonic topologies of layered and abstracted recordings including :
water boiling in an old-fashioned whistle kettle,
passenger and freight jets descending over inner-city suburbs,
multi-story scaffolding being removed from a newly completed residential tower nearby,
the usually inaudible signals and patterns of elecromagnetic frequencies constantly emitting from devices all around us,
morphagenic distortions of my spatial pleximetry recordings where I capture the singular sound of objects being struck once,
and the rhythmic pulse of the bulbous bright green cicada Cystosoma saundersii, commonly called the bladder cicada that I encountered in...2023-01-2426 min
Creatives IgniteSandi Hester // Sketchbooks as Process ToolsLearn More about Sandi
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/sandihester
Insta: https://instagram.com/sandihesterart @sandihesterart
Classes: https://sandihesterclasses.com/
Sandi's Website: https://www.sandihester.com/
Episode 423 was live on Nov, 9, 2022. Find full show notes at: https://creativesignite.com/sandi-hester-sketchbooks-as-process-tool/
Sandi Hester is an artist and has a fantastic channel on YouTube called "Bits of an Artist's Life." I found her this summer and she was just the medicine I needed.
She is always growing and trying new things in her art. Sandi's process really struck me because she takes limited tools out and does many variations on one...2022-12-301h 18
sonic sketchbooks72 SONIC SKETCHBOOKS - breathlessCOVID has left me a nagging discomfort, an occasional slight distress of being breathless.
‘Breathless’ is the English-language title for Jean-Luc Godard’s breathtaking 1960 cinematic experiment ‘A Bout de Souffle’ with its charismatic stars Jean Sieberg, Jean-Paul Belmondo, mid-20th century Paris and Godard’s slap-in-the-face stylistics.
He called his many films postcards and insisted they had no greater meaning than the direct experience of seeing and hearing them and whatever that might provoke within each person and amongst and between them collectively, afterwards.
Not long ago I chanced upon, or an algorithm offered to me, a video interview with Godard made...2022-12-2731 min
sonic sketchbooks71 SONIC SKETCHBOOKS - in a soundscaperelease date: 20 december 2022
This new composition is a structuring of recent audio recordings made on national park field trips using hydrophones, contact mics and my trusty Tascam digital recorders mingled with home-studio noodlings with modular synthesisers, home-made instruments and iPad apps.
At play in this sonified space of cinematic suggestion, sounds of sub-aquatic arthropods segue with unpredictable meanderings of the SOMA Cosmos ‘drifting memory station’ as it floats samples of a music box transcription I made of melodic phrases from John Cage’s 1948 ‘In A Landscape’; a thunderstorm catches a Thai family off-guard in the street; a small rotating sculpture knocks per...2022-12-2026 min
Art Gallery of OntarioSketchbooks and NotebooksSketchbooks and notebooks
2000s
Courtesy of the Estate of Denyse Thomasos
Audio description of the work
Eight open notebooks make up this table display. They range in size from a pocket notebook to slightly larger than letter paper size. In the middle of the glass encased table is a book open to a 4 colour sketch of structures. At the centre of the sketch is a low green circular structure that resembles a wheel with six spokes. It is surrounded by sketches of taller architectural structures in black brown or blue. Three other sketchbooks are open to what appear to be...2022-10-0403 min
sonic sketchbooks70 SONIC SKETCHBOOKS - adriftrelease date: 13 september 2022
A small mustard tin from India, a paulownia box for a teabowl from japan, a dried starfish, limpet shells, a whirlygig made from a beer can, vehicle flattened bottle caps collected from the streets, a steel street sweeper bristle aquiver on the edge of a wooden desk, tiny seashells in a ceramic bowl and that paulownia box, the spiky woody seedpod of the tree Flindersia australis, or Crow’s Ash, a soft-bristled shoe brush made and bought in Kyoto, offcuts of superthin aluminium dropped onto a marble benchtop, a field recording made on a warm afternoon in a...2022-09-1324 min
Down 2 ArtDina Brodsky on Sketchbooks and InstagramListen if you're curious about:
Best practices for Artists on Instagram
Recent changes to the Instagram algorithm
Developing a sketchbook habit
Instagram and Sketchbooks for Artists
In this episode I chat with Dina Brodsky about the new Instagram algorithm as well as her sketchbooks. To learn more about Dina’s work visit Dinabrodsky.com and follow her on Instagram at @dinabrodsky. To learn more about her classes visit insightsforartists.com.
For more information about my art and my art classes visit kristygordoncourses.com.
T...2022-09-1152 min
sonic sketchbooks69 SONIC SKETCHBOOKS - tumblerelease date: 30 august 2022
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ecently I made a small kinetic instrument from a ball carved out of a champagne cork rolling around inside a rotating biscuit tin. Watching the roughly shaped ball bounce and hobble about inside the cylinder I got to thinking about the word tumble and how I’ve often expressed a sense of tumbling through life, rather than purposefully shaping a trajectory of progressive improvement.
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umble of course conjures a scene and a sense of suddenly falling, with or without control or intention. The unlucky, the inattentive and the trained acrobat alike can take a tumble. It’s a wor...2022-08-3022 min
sonic sketchbooks68 SONIC SKETCHBOOKS - I couldn't find any treesThis episode is a composition titled ‘I couldn’t find any trees…’
As is often the case, I sat down at my iMac to build it from recordings I’ve made since release of the previous episode. Yesterday, I walked to a relatively remote ocean beach south of Sydney with my partner, one of my sisters, her husband and their two adult daughters, celebrating one of their birthdays.
As people have always done on shell grit beaches, we chatted and combed through the crunchy underfoot fragments in search of tiny treasures of form, texture, pattern and colour.
One of my nieces foc...2022-08-1621 min
sonic sketchbooks67 SONIC SKETCHBOOKS - uncertaintyLately, I’ve been thinking about uncertainty its many variants and causes - indecision, vagueness, ambiguity, fuzziness, aporia, doubt, bewilderment, terror, indeterminability, incoherence, obfuscation, chaos, deep fakery, etcetera…
Uncertainty is fundamental to creative practices and a foundational principle of quantum sciences - Heisenberg’s proposition that it is impossible to know - that is to measure - with precision both the spatial position and the energetic momentum of a particle at a given time interval. That’s presuming time can be meaningfully discretised…
All forms of measurement are, in some way however minute, uncertain - which is often quantified in the user m...2022-08-0223 min
sonic sketchbooks66 SONIC SKETCHBOOKS - overheardrelease date: 19 july 2022
It’s been a while since I offered an episode built from field recordings and I had an idea about building a composition from overheard speech, from recordings made in many different contexts over the past twenty years that included or centered on speech - artist talks, interviews, conversations, accidental encounters, people together in different social contexts. In addition to the wonderful diversity of human voices, languages and acculturated forms of expression, there is a wide variety of inherent musicalities in the rhythms, cadences and interplays of voice as speakers navigate different situations. The stage, the street, th...2022-07-1930 min
sonic sketchbooks65 SONIC SKETCHBOOKS - darknessrelease date: 05 july 2022
Of late I’ve been reading about 1816, the Year Without A Summer, a global experience of sudden disruption to normative climate cycles.
In 1815 Mount Tambora, a volcano in present-day Indonesia, erupted - violently - blasting millions of tons of gases and tephra into the upper atmosphere.
These volcanic aerosols distributed up there, encircling the earth, reflecting light and heat from the sun to such an extent that in 1816 crops failed across entire continents, waterways used for trade remained frozen after winter and ‘unseasonal’ storms caused widespread flooding and havoc. These impacts resulted in epic famines, social upheaval, refuge...2022-07-0536 min
sonic sketchbooks64 SONIC SKETCHBOOKS - grumbling flowersWelcome to episode 64 of the sonic sketchbooks podcast - this is your guest host, a synthesised text-to-voice software voice found on the internet.
This composition - grumbling flowers - is an offering for studio listening, built from sounds derived from a few aluminium beer tins emptied of their contents and deconstructed into component parts, teasing sounds forth at each stage of their breakdown.
Additional sounds were captured from some containers found in the kitchen larder and a few files from the hard drive library.
As ever in the sonic sketchbooks world, original sound recordings have been distorted, manipulated, mangled, enhanced...2022-06-2119 min
sonic sketchbooks63 SONIC SKETCHBOOKS - strangenessstrangeness is
an excited state
of matter
strange particles
carry
the quantum number
of strangeness
different
to zero
the quantum number
can be hidden
in a strange/
anti-strange pair
for example
the mu meson
strange quarks
are found
in subatomic particles
called hadrons
hadrons
containing strange quarks
include
strange D mesons
sigma baryons
kaons
and other
strange
particles
the decay
of the positive kaon
violates
the conservation
of strangeness
strangeness is
an exciting state
of mind2022-06-0722 min
sonic sketchbooks62 SONIC SKETCHBOOKS - It Is a MicrophoneIn a vague tangential way, this composition began in consideration of the beautiful aural strategies of the great French experimental composer Eliane Radigue.
We begin in everyday life on temple grounds in Kyoto, 2014 -
distinctive sounds of Japanese birds and people chatting.
from somewhere
that is nowhere
drifting low liquid tones and
thin high threads
like notes of a glass harmonica
tease for attention
a passenger jet doppler shifts
crossing the sky
electromagnetic frequencies gathered
with a special microphone
that hears and transfers silent emanations…
here, from an art school printing machine
pulses of prepared piano
drop a name
full of...2022-05-2427 min
sonic sketchbooks61 SONIC SKETCHBOOKS - vespertineVespertine wandering
out with my recorder in a nearby park,
autumn turning to winter
people riding bicycles
playing basketball and tennis
jogging
walking dogs
walking home
going out…
in with my recorder and contact mics
the apartment studio
capturing sounds
dropping fragments of cutup aluminium cans
tapping shards of a favourite big red ceramic bowl,
accidentally smashed
activating spring-steel street-sweeper bristles found lying on the street
building ad-hoc sound machines with a turntable, post-consumer containers, balls and objects
teasing electronic sounds from handheld bastl kastle, pocket operator and artiphon synthesisers
outside
little corella parrots calling
bells ringing at a nearby gr...2022-05-1026 min
sonic sketchbooks60 SONIC SKETCHBOOKS - Eugene CarchesioEugene Carchesio is an artist - self-taught, self-generating, self-contained, forever producing and presenting. We’ve been friends, collaborators, colleagues, fellow travellers for roundabout four decades.
Eugene lives in Brisbane, Queensland - always has - and has forged a humbly extraordinary path across, through, around, outside of and beyond contemporary art. He’s fearlessly lost, an enigmatic poet, a serious practitioner, a self-deprecating and droll-funny man with a penchant for mid-20th century jazz, geometry, watercolour and silence.
In late 2021 - December 27 - I met up with Eugene at his studio in an abandoned paint factory in the southern suburbs of Bris...2022-04-2626 min
sonic sketchbooks59 SONIC SKETCHBOOKS - unknownsWhen I finish creating one episode, I have no idea what the next episode will be. Like many artists who’ve been working for decades, I’m confident an idea for the next project will arise through being open to encounters in the world, its influences, inspirations and intrigues. This is a known unknown.
Last week, during a lunch break, with rain still falling after weeks of deluge,
I watched an hour-long documentary about Japanese-Americans who had been locked up in internment camps in the US during the 2nd World War. The focus of the program was selected creatives who had th...2022-04-1222 min
sonic sketchbooks58 SONIC SKETCHBOOKS - rivusrelease date: 29 march 2022
This episode comprises an unedited 50 minute recording I made visiting two of the six venues of the 23rd Biennale of Sydney on Monday 21st of March 2022. Developed by Colombian curator and artistic director Jose Roca, and a curatorium of art workers from several Sydney establishment art institutions, the Biennale is titled ‘rivus’ and explores varying relationships between humans and water. There’s much to read on the biennale website - biennaleofsydney.art - and an exquisite accompanying book ‘rivus: a glossary of water’ published to expand upon and carry forward the conversations, enquiries and arguments proposed across this ambit...2022-03-2953 min
sonic sketchbooks57 SONIC SKETCHBOOKS - borderlandsThis episode presents a new composition featuring pieces I’ve been making with an app called Borderlands Granular that I’ve had on successive iPads for the past couple of years. It is by far one of the best experimental sound software tools I’ve used - which may be due to the authors’ acknowledgement of being inspired directly by the works and writings of John Cage, Brian Eno and computer music pioneer Max Mathews.
Borderlands originated as a class project at Stanford University’s Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics in 2011. Chris Carlson and Ge Wang co-authored a paper de...2022-03-1529 min
sonic sketchbooks56 SONIC SKETCHBOOKS - a john berger readingA couple of episodes back I mentioned the writing of John Berger, how I’d been re-reading a large volume of his selected writings. That re-reading prompted me to search my bookshelves for another of his many books. This one, published in hardback in 2011 by Pantheon Books, New York, is titled “Bento’s Sketchbook: How does the impulse to draw something begin?”
It's a thoughtfully produced 160 pages of musings, anecdotes and philosophical enquiry about the nature of art and includes numerous reproductions of Berger’s characteristic exploratory, evocative drawings, punctuated with quotes from 17th century Dutch philosopher, writer, outcast and lens-grind...2022-03-0125 min
sonic sketchbooks55 SONIC SKETCHBOOKS - and I wonderedThis episode is a new exploratory composition titled “And I wondered…” .
It continues my investigations of immaterial time sculpture through the hand-building of sonic apertures and trajectories pieced together from meticulous manipulations of recordings of analogue sound I capture from everyday experiences and activities including walking, drawing, sonifying objects, accidental encounters and intentional field recording.
The piece is a slow meander, a trackless wandering across non-existent territories and amongst dimensionless towers and tunnels of inference, suggestion, confounding affect…
There is no pocket map or explanatory text to guide you - you’re essentially on your own with this artwork, this temporary...2022-02-1527 min
sonic sketchbooks54 SONIC SKETCHBOOKS - Labouring at Tanjarelease date: 01 February 2022
This episode is built from recordings I made last week while on a brief working sojourn about 500km south of Sydney where I live. I drove to a farm owned by an old friend, a practicing architect who now also farms cattle and is regenerating bushland on expansive acreage quite close to the Pacific Ocean.
I went there to visit and provide labour to help with some of the endless tasks always requiring attention on a farm. Besides some fencing installation and maintenance, the main work, undertaken over six days, was removal of an invasive vine species...2022-02-0137 min
sonic sketchbooks53 SONIC SKETCHBOOKS - January 2022Somewhere underneath, above or beyond language lives music -
and somewhere beyond that beyond lives sonic sketchbooks…
In developing this first episode of 2022 I began with a structuralist approach, chaining together a sequence of two minute excerpts lifted from recordings I’ve made over the past few weeks, including filed recordings. microphonic experiments and my ongoing sometimes frustrating, sometimes beguiling explorations of modular synthesis.
And that initial sequence of excerpts asked for additions, extractions, stretches and folds, stitches and holds, to eventually bring this composition out of nothingness to your ears, dear listener.
Vaguely, lately, I’ve been notioning about sonic...2022-01-1837 min
sonic sketchbooks52 SONIC SKETCHBOOKS - Chordatarelease date: 28 december 2021
This is the final episode of the Sonic Sketchbooks podcast for 2021. There will be an indeterminate hiatus before starting up again. If you stay subscribed, the next episode should appear for you sometime in February 2022.
For this past year of 2021, I’ve been getting together with two friends and artist colleagues - Michael Thomas Hill and Ross Rudesch Harley - to make sounds with our various synthesisers, music softwares, mics and a couple of ‘normal’ instruments. In the tradition of such things, much time was spent coming up with a collective name - together we are CHORDATA. This epi...2021-12-2831 min
sonic sketchbooks50 SONIC SKETCHBOOKS - soundplantrelease date: 14 december2021
I’ve been occasionally working with an interesting piece of software called SoundPlant designed and maintained by Marcel Blum, self-described as “a coder, consultant, musician, and vinyl archaeologist based in New York”.
I like to use softwares designed by fellow artists and Soundplant is particularly useful as it facilitates mapping of sound files to a computer keyboard, and playing of the files by simply clicking keys. Files can be looped, faded, edited and mildly altered with in-built digital effects. Each combination of files is called a Keymap. I’ve used it in performance contexts but more often as a conveni...2021-12-1423 min
sonic sketchbooks49 SONIC SKETCHBOOKS - quicktime mixesLike anyone who’s worked with analogue and digital sound over a long period of time, I’ve built up a huge library of recordings across a range of categories from field recordings to unique self-built instruments, samples made by sounding found and everyday objects, digital manipulations of these samples and of course various forms of sound synthesis, lately with modular synthesisers and some of the many innovative electronic devices people are inventing, small-scale making and putting out into the world.
When working on my drawing, writing or instrument-building projects I like to load up the imac with a fairly rand...2021-12-071h 04
sonic sketchbooks48 SONIC SKETCHBOOKS - thenrelease date: 30 november 2021
Forced Audience, The Dialectic Process of Change, Another Transport to Sleep, Lament of the LionKillers, Today the World, Pace of Erosion… titles of cassette recorded sound works I made in the 1970s and 80s.
This episode is an ethereal visitation from that time, airing a small selection of sonic explorations I made then using cassette tape recorders, working alone in share-house bedrooms and with collaborators in lounge rooms, practice rooms, galleries, abandoned buildings and the street.
We begin with a recording made in 1981 with artist John Nixon, after-hours in Brisbane’s Institute of Modern Art. John was the...2021-11-3038 min
sonic sketchbooks47 SONIC SKETCHBOOKS - PalimpsestThis week, in my teaching at the National Art School, I’m lecturing and assigning a project on drawing and the palimpsest.
In 1845, English writer Thomas De Quincey wondered
“What else than a natural and mighty palimpsest is the human brain? Such a palimpsest is my brain; such a palimpsest, oh reader! is yours. Everlasting layers of ideas, images, feelings, have fallen upon your brain softly as light. Each succession has seemed to bury all that went before. And yet, in reality, not one has been extinguished…
… I mention a case communicated to me by a lady… still living, though now of unu...2021-11-2323 min
sonic sketchbooks46 SONIC SKETCHBOOKSThis week’s episode continues my ongoing investigations of the sonic potentials of the MakeNoise Morphagene modular synthesis module, previously featured in episodes 41 and 44.
This new composition incorporates Morphagene-ic manipulations of original captured sounds made with some of my one-off studio-built sound art instruments, occasionally punctuated with unprocessed field recordings made around inner city Sydney.
I’m interested in exploring the suggestive spaces and ways in which perceptual processing of unfamiliar sonic information - sounds for which its difficult to attach a known source, such as the frequently unpredictable sonic artifice generated by the Morphagene - is challenged or disrupted when...2021-11-1625 min
sonic sketchbooks45 SONIC SKETCHBOOKS - digital duskDuring the most recent 3-month COVID lockdown here in Sydney Australia, to maintain creative engagement I did a small project for a while titled 'digital dusk', a series of daily one minute abstract digital video works posted to my Instagram account. Each video was made by setting up a kinetic event that I videoed with my iphone and used as source material for extreme filter manipulation in final cut pro.
Sounds were generated from combinations of my micro-electronics digital sound gear including the Koma FieldKit FX, a LittleBits Korg synthesiser kit, the Bastl Kastle and a few portable speakers, often...2021-11-0925 min
sonic sketchbooks44 SONIC SKETCHBOOKS - fragmentsOf late I’ve been getting to know the MakeNoise Morphagene modular synthesis device. The User Manual describes it as being “informed by the worlds of Musique Concrete and Microsound”, “a set of tools for creative synthesis” “ for the creation of new musical form and content, previously unimagined.”
It enables extreme manipulation of recorded sound using a syncretic paradigm of delimited analogue tape splicing exaggerated by the granular control capabilities of digital software. That is, infinitely variable fragmentation and reassembly of sonic units discretised down to improbable fractions of seconds duration, organised and disorganised in complex systems activated by tiny variations in...2021-11-0228 min
sonic sketchbooks43 SONIC SKETCHBOOKS - HiroshimaWith three companions I travelled to Japan in May 2018. One of the reasons for this trip was to finally visit Hiroshima, to be present and pay my respects at the site of one of the principal atrocities of the 20th century.
This episode of Sonic Sketchbooks comprises excerpts from recordings I made over the three days we spent staying on the rural outskirts of the city, journeying to visit Hiroshima’s Museum of Contemporary Art, A-Bomb Museum, Peace Park and the skeletal Genbaku Dome remains that, along with the mushroom cloud, have become the enduring symbols of that awful moment at...2021-10-2637 min
sonic sketchbooks42 SONIC SKETCHBOOKS - DroneThis weeks offering is an exploration of the sonic drone. Many musicians of many cultures and times have explored and exploited the mesmeric nature of persistent sonic presence to evoke saintly states of grace and excite stoner states of mind.
Here, rather than working with instruments, I’ve repurposed three brief field recordings -
a vintage Roland pen plotter I recorded in Professor Jon McCormacks office at Monash University in 2012 - Jon had written software to control the device to reproduce drawings in his Niche Constructions generative art series;
- the Man O’War Steps floating pontoon near the Sydney Oper...2021-10-1931 min
sonic sketchbooks41 SONIC SKETCHBOOKS - Morphagenerelease date: 12 october 2021
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requent or perhaps even occasional listeners will by now be familiar with my sonic interests - unusual combinations of slow, strange and stochastic sounds.
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his weeks episode presents a series of sketches made with the small Eurorack modular synthesiser I’ve put together and have been experimenting with over the past few months.
The system is intentionally oriented to manipulation of files from my samples library - recordings of the art instruments I make, found sonic generators such as the floating pontoon from episode 40 and sonic events performed for the recorder made with repurposed found objects.
M...2021-10-1227 min
sonic sketchbooks40 SONIC SKETCHBOOKS - belowrelease date: 05 october 2021
This weeks episode is titled ‘Below’.
I’ve always been captivated by the eery-strange chaotic sounds made by floating pontoons moving in response to watery energies.
In mid-winter this year, I went down to a favourite pontoon that floats alongside the Sydney Opera House at a place named the Man O’War Steps. From the early 1800s, this convict-constructed sandstone infrastructure project provided a vital access point between sea and land for the British colonisers - after months of ocean going travel on wooden sailing ships, naval men and female convicts alike here put their feet on the eart...2021-10-0525 min
sonic sketchbooks39 SONIC SKETCHBOOKS - To Higher Groundrelease date - 28 september 2021
This week’s composition is titled ‘To Higher Ground’. I constructed it over the past week, returning to strategies of using spoken word appropriated from diverse sources that I began with in the 1970’s when I’d cassette record voices from broadcast television and shortwave radio to use in cutups for performances, installations and super 8 film soundtracks. The tools have changed but the strategy remains one I continue to explore and experiment with.
The semantic demand of the spoken word activates only for those languages we, as individuals, can comprehend. For those we do not, the rhythms, c...2021-09-2823 min
sonic sketchbooks38 SONIC SKETCHBOOKS CompositionThis weeks composition is another generative foray into the archive, built from a selection of my field and studio recordings.
The field recordings include water dripping from the gutters of a remote farmhouse outbuilding after a passing storm at 3am; heavy rain drumming the metal skin of my car, pulled up on a bush track; hydrophone recordings of a hill creek rushing with stormwater; and the conversations and song of dozens of birds on bidjigal country, just north-west of sydney, on a warm afternoon, the native avian music thats been sounded there for thousands of millenia, long before any human...2021-09-2133 min
sonic sketchbooks37 SONIC SKETCHBOOKS - Sorte Muld EMFrelease date: 14 september 2021
I've been collecting more Electromagnetic Frequencies or EMF from the local environment - this time scavenging sounds from various sources in the small apartment I live in.
Every electronic device, source or connection will generate some form of EMF, which remains mostly inaudible to the naked ear though sometimes you might hear a hum or a buzzing. There’s a kind of electrosonic diversity to these found sounds - there’s an anima there, a life-likeness; the EMF flutters, whistles, tones and crackling like the cryptic calls and cries of insects, birds and animals in an environment.
This...2021-09-1425 min
sonic sketchbooks36 SONIC SKETCHBOOKS - COMPOSITIONThis weeks episode is a new composition titled ‘a lot of unidentified sounds…’.
I’ve assembled it over the past few days from recordings and generations, mostly new but a few old. It’s another of my sonic constructions or sound sculptures built to occupy, or reside in, time rather than space - but a form of sculpture nonetheless. And a form of drawing also - bringing disparate elements together on the blank field of time by combining strategies of chance and selection, foregrounding, erasure, filtering, positioning and repositioning, to create a singular artwork.
As I’ve mentioned before, I imagine thes...2021-09-0721 min
sonic sketchbooks35 SONIC SKETCHBOOKS - Kanazawa 25 May 2017This week’s episode is a quiet, contemplative piece that arose from re-listening to recordings I made on the 25 May 2017 during a day of wandering in Kanazawa, an important cultural town on the west coast of Honshu Japan, about equidistant from Tokyo and Kyoto.
I went there to visit two museums and a garden - the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art designed by Japanese architects SANAA, the DT Suzuki Museum, and the famous Kenrokuen Garden, its name reflecting the six characteristics of this centuries-in-the-making stroll garden - spaciousness, seclusion, artifice, antiquity, water-courses and panoramas.
The SANAA-designed museum contains a pe...2021-08-3135 min
sonic sketchbooks34 SONIC SKETCHBOOKS - SOMA ETHERSome time ago I bought a curious device from SOMA the electronic sound laboratory of Ukrainian-born sonic innovator Vlad Kreimer. The device is called Ether and Vlad designed it for hearing the invisible electromagnetic frequencies that surround us but which we don’t consciously sense - we can’t see, feel, touch, taste or hear them.
Ether is a handheld object, a little black box, that contains a magnetic antenna and an integrated electronic antenna. There are two thumb wheels on the side - one for volume, the other for frequency tuning. A pair of metal nubs can be used for...2021-08-2439 min
sonic sketchbooks33 SONIC SKETCHBOOKS - Tetsuya Umeda workshopThis episode is an unedited recording I made, with the artists permission, of an improvised collaborative soundscape made by participants in a workshop led by japanese artist Tetsuya Umeda who had presented an hour-long solo performance a couple of nights earlier as part of the 2017 Performance Space Liveworks Festival at Carriageworks which is housed in repurposed 19th century locomotive workshops in inner city Eveleigh.
Umeda-san uses simple physics involving heat and harmonics, pressure, gravity, dry ice and everyday objects to create multi-source sonic events which he performatively activates, wandering around amongst diverse objects and devices strewn in a large circle...2021-08-1739 min
sonic sketchbooks32 SONIC SKETCHBOOKS - colourformsrelease date: 10 august 2021 - Australian census day
Well into the second month of another COVID-19 lockdown here in Sydney, with high daily infection rates indicating no end in sight for a while…
This weeks episode presents the soundtracks to a collective series of abstract digital video sequences titled Colourforms that I made in 2017 for a gallery exhibition.
Anyone who has seen my Instagram posts during this lockdown will be familiar with my ‘digital dusk’ series of one minute visual abstracts. The origin of the technical methodology I use to make them might begin with the Colourform series, but the aesthetic was ce...2021-08-0926 min
sonic sketchbooks31 SONIC SKETCHBOOKS - Museum of Economic BotanyThe COVID-19 lockdown in Sydney continues as does my excavation of files from the rhyzomatic strings of long neglected nested folders on an old workhorse iMac.
This weeks episode presents a mix of tracks commissioned in 2014 for automated daily replay in the Museum of Economic Botany in the Adelaide Botanic Gardens, South Australia. The sounds emanated quietly from inside a small laser-cut timber geodesic dome I designed to house an ipod and stereo speaker set. The intention was to introduce a strange ambience in a relatively confined sonic field within the subdued space of the large open interior.
The MEB...2021-08-0339 min
Apple Blossom TeachersThe not-an-art-teacher's guide to sketchbooks in the classroom: boost engagement, content retention, and social skills through simple and transferrable art explorationsSummary: Today’s episode is FULL of simple and actionable strategies that will level up your students’ motivation, retention of content knowledge, interpersonal skills, and so much more. The key? Sketchbooks!! I’m sharing a little about my journey with sketchbooks in the classroom, and how I use them as a tool to support student creativity and content knowledge in transferable ways. Key Points: This episode is brought to you by Sketch for Schools. Sketch for schools is on a mission to support learning through visual arts, even sharing brain-based research on the po...2021-07-2919 min
Izzy & Gina in stitchesSketchbooks (18)Sketchbooks - an essential part of the creative process? In this episode we discuss the sketchbooks we use, whether that's one or many, and how we use them. We also discuss the size and format we prefer to use: large, small, spiral or casebound? And of course the drawings and sketches themselves: how crucial are they to the creative process?
Welcome to a new podcast for all stitchers, embroiderers, textile artists and creative souls, where we have friendly informal conversations about what it actually means to be an artist working in textiles.
Isobel and Gina...2021-07-2953 min
sonic sketchbooks30 SONIC SKETCHBOOKS - Kyotorelease date: 27 july 2021
This weeks episode is made in the fifth consecutive week of a fairly restrictive COVID19 lockdown here in Sydney and I made the program where I live in a small apartment in Redfern, on gadigal country.
Wondering if and when I might ever be able to visit Japan again, I built this new composition with excerpts from field recordings on a retired iMac I have at home; recordings I made in and around Kyoto on visits in 2014 and 2015.
I listen to playlists from my field recordings in my studio while working, letting the recordings play in their...2021-07-2721 min
sonic sketchbooks29 SONIC SKETCHBOOKS - lockdownI constructed this weeks episode during the third week of a stay-at-home, shelter-in-place COVID-19 lockdown on gadigal land, in sydney australia where I live, make and work.
Without access to my studio and the majority of my archived sound library, I’ve structured this episode from field recordings I have on a home iMac, recordings made at the rural artist-in-residence facility at Bundanon on the central south coast of New South Wales.
The spine of the piece, a loud fluttering, is a time-stretched recording of hundreds of flies and other insects swarming on a recently dead wombat. Out bushwalking in pa...2021-07-2023 min
sonic sketchbooks28 SONIC SKETCHBOOKS - RodeRec sketchesThis sonic offering is built from recordings made with the Apple iOS app RodeRec from the Australian audio tech company Rode, makers of many excellent microphone types and other audio production gear.
I started using the RodeRec app soon after it was released in 2013, loaded onto an iphone 4, and have always carried and used it on my iphones ever since.
It’s promoted as a ‘field recording’ app and that’s how I’ve used it, to capture recordings of moments of acoustic interest encountered while out in the world. As we tend to carry our phones with us everywhere, the app ha...2021-07-1331 min
sonic sketchbooks27 SONIC SKETCHBOOKS - binaural experimentsThis episode arose from finding a folder of recordings during a recent lockdown cleanup, forgotten in a digital folder on an old hard drive.
Labelled ‘BINAURAL EXPERIMENTS’ it’s a suite of recordings I made mostly at my bush hut, but some in my inner-city studio and some in the streets of Sydney.
They were made with a pair of binaural microphones that are worn in the ears of the recordist, to help recreate in playback under headphones a strong sensation of aural presence and spatial location of sound sources.
The effect can be quite uncanny, especially when listening back to sou...2021-07-0633 min
sonic sketchbooks26 SONIC SKETCHBOOKS - cryptic lamellaphoneThis episode focuses on an acoustic sculptural object I devised and built in 2014.
It’s a cryptic flattened cylinder that rests on a low stool. A pair of identical stools face each other across the object. Gallery visitors are invited to sit, in pairs, to hold and move the object in their hands.
Sounds are generated within the object - rolling, bumping and random sequences of resonant metallic tones. The object is an instrument producing a musicality of uncertainty.
The mechanism is hidden within, prompting investigation by peering into slots around its perimeter. Like looking into a microscope there’s a sc...2021-06-2919 min
sonic sketchbooks25 SONIC SKETCHBOOKS - Platform Performancesrelease date: 22 June 2021
This episode presents interpretations of sound works I developed for participatory performances in the PLATFORM series staged at Articulate project space in Sydney’s inner-western suburb of Leichhardt.
PLATFORM is a project coordinated by Tess de Quincey and curated by Tess and collaborators including Linda Luke, Marcus Whale, Martin del Amo, Eugene Ward and others.
It is a salon afternoon of informal performance by artists from different disciplines including dance, theatre, visual art, ceramics, performance, sound art, and music. The pieces are carefully curated to flow together, occupying every available space within the three level gallery building, it...2021-06-2228 min
sonic sketchbooks24 SONIC SKETCHBOOKS - Centre for Deep Readingrelease date: 15 june 2021
This episode is a virtual visit to The Centre for Deep Reading retreat, an annual event staged at a property named Tyraman, on Wonnarua country north west of Sydney in the Hunter Valley between the rural towns of Dungog and Gresford.
The CDR is a labour of love, social relations and experimental cultural enrichment devised and sustained by writer, activist, humanities teacher and fellow pedestrian explorer Nick Keys.
I visited Nick at his apartment in the Sydney suburb of Northbridge to talk with him about the project. In the episode, excerpts from our conversation are interwoven with...2021-06-1541 min
DraftsmenSketchbooks - S3E09An old comment from a previous episode prompts Marshall and Stan to crack open their old sketchbooks. This week the two discuss what sketches are, the value and purpose behind having sketchbooks, and how sketchbooks influence an artist’s growth. There’s also plenty of sketches that Marshall and Stan share from their own personal sketchbooks. Show Links (some contain affiliate links):To get your new wireless plan for just 15 bucks a month, and get the plan shipped to your door for FREE, go to MINTMOBILE.com/draftsmen!Get 10% Off by visiting BetterHelp.com/draftsmen!...2021-06-081h 07
sonic sketchbooks23 SONIC SKETCHBOOKS - electronic explorationsThis episode is a sail along some of the backwaters of lo-fi electronic and digital sound I’ve been experimenting with and exploring over the past few years. My first forays into electromagnetic and digital sonic synthesis were in the late 1970s early 80s on my Fender Rodes 88 piano, a first generation Casio VL-Tone bought by my old friend and fellow sonic explorer adam wolter aka philip toydog - he particulalrly enjoyed the cheesy drum machine presets of that little novelty keyboard calculator - now a collectors item -, followed by various Commodore Amiga computers, a Korg MS-10, numerous tape re...2021-06-0833 min
sonic sketchbooks21 SONIC SKETCHBOOKS - Bundanon Residency 2018In April 2018 I was fortunate to have time at an artist in residency program in the musician’s cottage at Bundanon, on Wodi Wodi and Yuin country, near Nowra on the south coast of New South Wales. Bundanon is a large property on the Shoalhaven River, part farmland, part bushland, which was the home and studio of Australian artist Arthur Boyd. He and his wife Yvonne gifted the property to the nation in 1993 as a cultural trust for the development of artists and arts education. The residency program is an important part of this continuing work.
The musicians cottage is on...2021-05-2532 min
sonic sketchbooks20 SONIC SKETCHBOOKS - Sonia Leber & David ChesworthIn this episode I’m in conversation with Melbourne artists Sonia Leber and David Chesworth who create compelling audio-visual installations using video, sound, architecture, objects and recorded performance. Their works are products of detailed interrogatory research, speculation and conjecture, often arising in the context of artist residency programs in various parts of the world including the UK and Russia.
In 2015 the late, hugely influential Nigerian-born contemporary art curator and writer Okwui Enwezor selected their work 'Zaum Tractor' for inclusion in his personally curated component of the 56th Venice Biennale: All The World’s Futures, just one of the many significant cont...2021-05-1846 min
sonic sketchbooks19 SONIC SKETCHBOOKS - sound + drawing workshop 2021release date: 11 may 2021
This weeks episode is from a two day sound and drawing workshop I developed and conducted in May 2021 with 3rd year BFA students at the National Art School in Sydney’s inner-city suburb of Darlinghurst. I’m a sessional tutor there, teaching two foundational streams with first year students - introduction to digital media, and experimental and expanded drawing.
The workshop was in two parts - acoustic and electronic - both exploring the often neglected sonic and performative qualities and potentials of drawing, the representation of sound through drawing and various forms of the graphical score, and the...2021-05-1129 min
sonic sketchbooks18 SONIC SKETCHBOOKS - 21-pendulum entropophone + 3-pendulum harmonographArtists make their work from anything available. One of the things I use is sound. This weeks program is a new suite of sonic constructs built from recordings of a few of my sonic-kinetic installations and objects.
In 2015 I built 'the 21-pendulum entropophone', an instrument comprising a kinetic-acoustic array of discarded aluminium drink cans collected from Sydney streets, then worked to turn each into a kind of bell.
The altered tins were suspended in series along seven long dowels, spaced to knock together when the dowels moved. Each dowel had three concrete weights attached, forming a long pendulum at each...2021-05-0437 min
sonic sketchbooks16 SONIC SKETCHBOOKS - 1988 cassettesrelease date: 20 April 2021
In 1988 I travelled overseas for the first time, taking my Marantz PMD430 stereo cassette recorder, a pair of lapel mics and boxes of TDK SA-42 cassette tapes to make field recordings. I liked the SA-42 tapes because they provided 20 minutes per side and my preference has always been to make uninterrupted 20 minute recordings.
This episode begins with excerpts from a few of the tapes I made in Japan and ends with the complete recording of a walkthrough some of the electronic media art installations staged at the 1988 Ars Electronica Festival in Linz, Austria. One of these installations...2021-04-2049 min
sonic sketchbooks17 SONIC SKETCHBOOKS - guest - Jeff DoringIn this episode I talk with Jeff Doring, an artist, musician, photographer, author, raconteur, conservationist and filmmaker.
In the late 1960s and early ‘70s, Jeff spent time in Papua and New Guinea working as a Nagra-lugging sound recordist, firstly for a New York documentary production company. Shortly after, he returned as director and sound recordist in the making of his feature-length observational documentary ‘Tidikawa and Friends’.
This award-winning project offered the world an uninterpreted filmic encounter with the ancient self-sufficient rainforest lifeworld of the biami or bedamini people, at a moment when colonial impact had only very recently reached them. The pr...2021-04-1727 min
sonic sketchbooks15 - SONIC SKETCHBOOKS - guest - Virginia HilyardSonic Sketchbooks episode 15
interview with Virginia Hilyard
This program is an interview with artist Virginia Hilyard who is a filmmaker, sound recordist, visual artist and teacher with early training in architecture and sculpture.
Virginia has been making and exhibiting work since 1985, and her solo and collaborative works have been shown in cities and regional centres throughout Australia, South East Asia, Europe, the UK, North America and Canada.
Virginia and I were organising members of the Sydney Super 8 Film Group in the 1980s and in the past decade we’ve presented sound art exhibitions together.
I took a train out to Sy...2021-04-1351 min
sonic sketchbooks14 SONIC SKETCHBOOKS - KyotoThis episode is a composition comprising field recordings I made in Kyoto Japan in 2015.2021-04-061h 10
sonic sketchbooks13 SONIC SKETCHBOOKS - guest - Laura AltmanOn the morning of the 2nd of February 2021 - a warm and humid summer day - I caught the light rail tram out to Arlington in Sydney’s inner western suburbs and walked up to Dulwich Hill to the apartment of musician and composer Laura Altman to talk with her about her busy creative life with experimental music.
Laura is a clarinetist and improviser who joyfully explores all the sonic possibilities of that 17th century instrument and mainstay of classical orchestras and chamber ensembles. She is a long time active member of Sydney’s fabled Splinter Orchestra and a musical coll...2021-03-3045 min
sonic sketchbooks12 SONIC SKETCHBOOKS - Origma ReserveORIGMA RESERVE TRACKLIST
Origma Reserve is a 10 hectare off-grid bush property surrounded on all sides by healthy Sydney sandstone forest under various titles - Aboriginal Land, State forest, Crown Land, and private ownership including gazetted Conservation Reserves. The property is bounded on the east and west by 100m ridges, and a valley wetland runs south to north. There are relictual rainforest species on the south-facing slopes, swamp mahoganys dotted amongst dense stands of tall paperbarks on the wetland margins, various combinations of ironbark/turpentine and bloodwood/angphora on the hillsides. Signs of pre-colonial occupation, such as grinding grooves and sand-floored...2021-03-201h 05
sonic sketchbooks11 SONIC SKETCHBOOKS - soundtrackerThis program is a recording made in one of my installation works titled 'soundtracker'. A multi-source, multi-speaker listening environment, adaptable for different spaces, soundtracker presents fifteen hours of audio excerpts from field recordings I’ve made over 40 years. Each excerpt is about 6 minutes long.
SOUNDTRACKER is presented in a very dark room, illuminated only by diffuse natural light entering through a circle of white Japanese shoji paper that transmutes the crisp distraction of external views into diffuse luminous presence and shadow-play.
In the darkness, five identical sculptural forms sit on the floor, in a circle surrounding a custom-built 5-sided bench se...2021-03-1638 min
Art Juice: A podcast for artists, creatives and art loversHow to Use Sketchbooks to Develop Ideas [ep: 111]We recorded this episode in response to a listener question about the ways in which we both use sketchbooks. The ensuing discussion demonstrated how different we are in this regard. Louise uses many of her sketchbooks as judgement-free playgrounds, places in which to relax and explore while Alice does this kind of work on loose sheets of paper and keeps her sketchbook for a more thoughtful development of ideas. We both also have a practice of journalling about our art, although again in slightly different ways. During today's chat, we also share how we've worked in the past, debate...2021-03-091h 00
sonic sketchbooks10 SONIC SKETCHBOOKS - a quivering marginaliarelease date - 10 march 2021
This episode presents audio documentation of a multi-speaker installation made in collaboration with fellow artist Jon McCormack.
A free-standing 4-meter wide timber geodesic dome is skinned with white Japanese shoji paper. Visitors enter the dome to sit at a 5-sided bench seat with 15 speakers arranged in a hemisphere above and around them. Two empty triangles provide views outside the dome, in the manner of a bird hide.
I derived the sounds heard in the dome from an online resource of biologists’ field recordings, carefully extracting and dissecting the spoken-word tape IDs usually considered only of technical in...2021-03-0919 min
sonic sketchbooks09 SONIC SKETCHBOOKS - Clocks & Clouds interviewrelease date: 02 march 2021
This program is an interview with mesotonal composers and musicians Kraig Grady and Terumi Narushima who together as the duet Clocks and Clouds.
I travelled to their home in Unanderra south of Sydney to speak with them about the insrtuments that Kraig designs and builds, their compositional strategies and the ways that each space they play in modulates the sonic production and experiential affect of their music.
You can find out a lot more about Kraig and Terumi’s activities at the website anaphoria.com2021-03-0236 min
sonic sketchbooks08 SONIC SKETCHBOOKS - Performance at Servo 2018This week's program is a live recording of rehearsals I did in preparation for an experimental music night on 24 August 2018 at Servo in the steel city of Port Kembla south of Sydney.
Mesotonal composer and colleague Kraig Grady [anaphoria.com] invited me to make a performance in the evening program that also included music students from Wollongong University, and the headline act Whirlpool, a duo of Kraig playing his mesotonally tuned vibraphone and renowned keyboardist Chris Abrahams playing drones on a small harmonium.
My performance titled ‘sonic event for found voice and electronics’ involved setting up five wifi speakers on the...2021-02-2322 min
sonic sketchbooks07 SONIC SKETCHBOOKS - Stacks residency 2018This program presents three soundscapes I generated to accompany the exhibition of an 8m long drawing work that I made during a residency at Stacks Projects - an artist-run gallery space in Potts Point, Sydney.
The soundscapes are constructed from recordings of simple autonomous kinetic drawing apparatus that were set up and left to operate for extended periods of time without intervention. Each apparatus is a unique combination of modified turntable, found objects, rods, cables, and pens, in an assemblage suspended from a camera tripod. Over the week-long residency, 50 independent drawings were generated on a long roll of heavyweight drawing...2021-02-1625 min
sonic sketchbooks06 SONIC SKETCHBOOKS - Untitled IntuitionsThis program is a one-hour composition of evolving sonic construction shaped from my library of field recordings and other inquisitive recordings made in my studio and bush hut.
I work by selecting a collection of tracks of interest, randomly dropping them together on a digital timeline, then intuitively shaping the sounds by time-shifting, re-arranging, layering and effecting, listening and re-listening until a certain enigmatic register emerges.
I consider this practice to be a form of immaterial sculpture, locating and shaping sounds in aural and poetic space, setting up open-ended allusive and abstract relationships between disparately collected sounds gathered from my...2021-02-091h 02
sonic sketchbooks05 SONIC SKETCHBOOKS - Dreamfield 48/15sonic sketchbooks podcast - episode 05
release date: 02 february 2021
installation – ‘dreamfield 48/15’
This episode is a recording of my 2015 installation ‘dreamfield 48/15’, an homage to John Milton Cage Jr, the American 20th-century avant-garde sound artist, composer, writer, philosopher, provocateur, mushroom expert and visual artist, who has been a lifelong inspiration.
The work comprises a large drawing on paper hanging on a wall, and, opposite this, a few meters away, a bench seat with two sets of headphones.
The pencil and ink drawing is a hand enlarged version of the sheet music for John Cage’s 1948 composition Dream. I replaced the scored notes with painted orang...2021-02-0220 min
sonic sketchbooks04 SONIC SKETCHBOOKS - Jon McCormack 01: Edenrelease date: 26 January 2021
Guest Episode - Jon McCormack ‘Eden’
This week's program is the first of two episodes with digital media artist, musician, programmer and Director of the innovative Sensilab project at Melbournes Monash University, Professor Jon McCormack.
Jon and I have been colleagues, collaborators and friends since the mid 1980s. He has a remarkable oeuvre of work, more well known and acknowledged internationally than here in Australia. Before the advent of COVID19, he was always on his way to or from somewhere in the world to install his works, present papers and lectures or undertake an artist-in-residency project.
This episode is a conve...2021-01-2633 min
sonic sketchbooks03 SONIC SKETCHBOOKS - The First Emperor AGNSW 2010Xi'an, Shaanxi province, China, is the site of ongoing work of archaeology, conservation and exhibition of the extraordinary relics of first emperor Qin Shihuang (259–210 BCE). This episode presents excerpts from a soundscape I developed for "The First Emperor - China's Entombed Warriors", a significant exhibition staged in 2010 at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia.
Then-director Edmund Capon invited me to develop and create the exhibition's multimedia elements. In addition to video projections and screens, we envisaged an atmospheric soundscape for the main exhibition hall where the two-thousand-year-old life-size terracotta warrior figures were to be displayed.
The soundscape...2021-01-1927 min
sonic sketchbooks02 SONIC SKETCHBOOKS - The Aleatoric EnsembleI’ve been experimenting with sound derived from everyday things for decades. In 1981 friends gave me John Cage’s book Empty Words because of my predilection for musicality over music. Musicality arising from the use of non-instruments and coalescences of chance, autonomy, simplicity, chaotic systems and bpm-less open-endedness.
My ‘aleatoric ensemble’ continues this fascination. It comprises a growing number of similar units, based on a small USB turntable modified to allow variable rotation speed. Combinations of trays, boxes and tins with balls, quandong nuts, marbles and other small objects inside are assembled in ad-hoc fashion on each turntable.
Set in motion...2021-01-1232 min
sonic sketchbooks01 SONIC SKETCHBOOKS - Episode 01Episode description
This first episode of the Sonic Sketchbooks podcast is a rhizomatic composition of excerpts from upcoming episodes, an introduction to some of the types and uses of sound explored in the podcast series. The following playlist includes notes about the sequence of sounds, and the episode from which each is derived. More information about each episode will become available at the time of the episode’s release.
Playlist for Sonic Sketchbooks Episode 01
timings rounded to closest 5 second interval; compositions, artworks and field recordings by Gary Warner unless otherwise noted
01:25 - 02:35
field recording of A Quivering Marginalia, an installation by...2021-01-0530 min
Kick in The Creatives PodcastEp 60 Creating Themes for your SketchbooksToday’s episode is all about creating themes for your sketchbooks.
But why would you want a theme for your sketchbook?
It can really help with indecision, having a theme can prevent that feeling of not knowing what you are going to draw. But if you are worried you will get bored with just one theme, you could have several sketchbooks on the go, each on different theme.
For example you could have one for doodles, landscapes, portraits, cartoons, challenges etc. Then just pick up the one that you feel like doing the mo...2020-05-0453 minThe Laura Horn Art Podcast88. Sonal Nathwani - The Power of SketchbooksSonal Nathwani has always loved sketchbooks. When she was a little girl she filled them with fashion designs, today they are often brimming with flowers. Throughout her life, they have been her safe place.
Born in Africa to Indian parents, Sonal grew up in England, spent time studying art in Italy and now lives in Austria. While she has always loved art, when it came to a career choice she took the sensible option and became an accountant.
She never fully let go of her art dream though and after her youngest son was born, sh...2020-04-2947 min
Sundays at Sarah’sLouise Despont and Sketchbooks!Let’s be honest, how many of us buy a new sketchbook or journal every other month, draw in a page or two, and then just let it pile dust on desks? Well in this weeks episode Miriam and Marissa discuss all things Sketchbooks! Why we love them, why they intimidate us, and what we’d like to start drawing in them. We also discuss artist Louise Despont, her recent show at The Drawing Center, and her thoughts on Sketchbooks. Hopefully you will feel encouraged to pick one up and make marks again! Also, check out Sarah’s solo show up now...2019-11-1254 minArt Juice: A podcast for artists, creatives and art loversSummer sketchbooks and charitable donations [28]We discuss our different approaches to summer - Louise doesn’t slow down in summer and in fact, her online course is about to start which means she is working even harder. Alice has children, which means her summers have always been a time for family. Even with the best will in the world, it’s almost impossible to work while caring for young children so she has always had to find ways of creating that could be squeezed into the gaps around family time. This has included other creative projects including home decor, gardening, cooking, and reading the art...2019-07-301h 05
Past MattersAlfred Munnings' Newlyn sketchbooks - Munnings Art Museum This episode is for those people who love animals and art because in it, I interview Jenny Hand, curator at Munnings Art Museum. Alfred Munnings was a famous 20th century impressionist painter, particular known for his paintings of horses. The objects Jenny picked though, are actually remarkably animal free - they are the sketchbooks from his years living in Cornwall. Listen in to learn more about a rather tragic period in Munnings life, and be reminded that he was rather good at depicting people and not just horses too.
To view pages from the sketchbooks, visit Ployradford.com...2019-06-2119 min
Stitchery StoriesAnne Brooke: From Sketchbooks To Mixed Media Stitched CollageAnne Brooke: From Sketchbooks To Mixed Media Stitched Collage Today on the Stitchery Stories textile art podcast, Anne Brooke shares her techniques and inspiration behind her stitched multimedia collages. A key feature of her work is to stitch onto paper, although she is now venturing into using fabrics, particularly vintage embroidered pieces. Her work is inspired by journeys - her walks and travels, as well as the life journeys undertaken by the vintage fabrics she uses and the work when it leaves her hands. She is also a master 'juggler' - she still...2018-01-3137 min
WW1 Centennial NewsWW1 Centennial News: Episode #41A - UPDATE - The kids & WWI | Building Bombers | DHS commemorates | Speaking WWI "Cushie" | Lost Sketchbooks | Roll of Honor | 100C/100M Trafford, PA and more...Highlights
America’s youth goes to war |@01:20
Russia stalls - Germany attacks -Mike Shuster |@08:30
Building the DH-4 bomber |@11:55
WW1 Commemoration flags for Veterans Day |@15:15
DHS and WW1 - Allison Finkelstein and Zack Wilske |@16:05
“World War 100” and “1917: America Joins The Fight” symposia |@23:30
Speaking WW1 - Cushie! |@25:40
100C/100M in Trafford, PA - Andrew Capets |@27:00
WW1CC.org/edu goes live |@32:20
The Lost Sketchbooks - Rex Passion |@33:10
Roll of Honor Foundation - Jerry Michaud |@39:40
WWrite Blog: “God Armeth the Patriot” |@46:00----more----
Opening
Welcome to World War 1 centennial News - It’s about WW1 THEN - what was happening 100 years ago this week ...2017-10-1451 minWW1 Centennial NewsWW1 Centennial News: Episode #41 - The kids & WWI | Building Bombers | DHS commemorates | Speaking WWI "Cushie" | Lost Sketchbooks | Roll of Honor | 100C/100M Trafford, PA and more...Highlights
America’s youth goes to war |@01:20
Russia stalls - Germany attacks -Mike Shuster |@08:30
Building the DH-4 bomber |@11:55
WW1 Commemoration flags for Veterans Day |@15:15
DHS and WW1 - Allison Finkelstein and Zack Wilske |@16:05
“World War 100” and “1917: America Joins The Fight” symposia |@23:30
Speaking WW1 - Cushie! |@25:40
100C/100M in Trafford, PA - Andrew Capets |@27:00
WW1CC.org/edu goes live |@32:20
The Lost Sketchbooks - Rex Passion |@33:10
Roll of Honor Foundation - Jerry Michaud |@39:40
WWrite Blog: “God Armeth the Patriot” |@46:00----more----
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Art Ed RadioEp. 085 - Making Sketchbooks MeaningfulTim absolutely loves sketchbooks, but unfortunately, Andrew doesn't share his passion. Instead, Tim brings on Andrea Slusarski to explore how to make sketchbooks a consistent part of your students' artmaking process. Listen as they discuss the types of sketchbooks that are best for your classroom (6:30), why we make modeling artistic habits a priority (13:45), and Andrea's best advice to prioritize sketchbooks in your classroom (17:15). Resources and Links: A Surefire Way to Get Your Students Excited About Sketchbooks A great video where Tim shows his sketchbook grading process 100 Sketchbook Prompts Your Students Will Love Andrea's previous app...2017-10-0323 min
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The Art of PhotographyPhotographer SketchbooksPHOTOGRAPHER SKETCHBOOKS
In the last video I introduced the idea of Photo Assignments. I want to talk about the sketchbook or journal concept a little more.
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Photographer Sketchbooks http://amzn.to/2efWqzH
Keri Smith :: Wreck This Journal http://amzn.to/2e61V7n
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