In the first major philosophical treatise on the subject, Agnès Gayraud explores all the paradoxes of pop—its inauthentic authenticity, its mass production of emotion and personal resonance, its repetitive novelty, its precision engineering of seduction—and calls for pop (in its broadest sense, encompassing all genres of popular recorded music) to be recognised as a modern… Continue reading Dialectic of Pop
Tag: sound
Sound Workshop
Outcome We created a storyline based on an imaginary journey from heaven to hell using natural sounds, music and AI-generated voices. Brief use three different environments and create a 3-minute story that uses recorded voice in an innovative way. Context Software https://www.reaper.fm/index.php https://freesound.org/ Resources IRCAM 2020 Sound Editing Mixing
Martian Wrinkle Cream Ad
Outcome Research I decided to explore the cliches used to market cosmetic industry products regarding the effects of gravity on human skin and I tried to imagine how a capitalist mindset might still find ways to profit from the adverse effects of low gravity on Mars (i.e. improved skin elasticity compared to Earth) by changing… Continue reading Martian Wrinkle Cream Ad
Anarchy in the classroom
Outcome I hid a Bluetooth speaker in the classroom’s ceiling and played a 30-minute audio file intended to disturb the class as if the sounds were coming from outside the window/room. The audio which starts just before the class group assembles in the room has a continuous discreet construction site atmosphere to make the participants… Continue reading Anarchy in the classroom