Lisa Hall

2012: The Year of Sound Art

2012-01-06T05:00:00.001-08:00

Coming soon ....

- Un announced audio interventions within urban spaces. Building reminders of lost interactions.

- Platforms with which to hear from. Installation.

- Audio Roulette. Better, louder and downlaod-able!

- Prints; embossed music, electrical birds, imaginary houses

Resonance FM, Sunday 4th December, 11pm

2011-12-03T10:40:00.000-08:00

Listen online to my one hour radio work exploring filed recording, audio interventions and urban space.

This is the last in a four part broadcast with Framework: Afield, Framework FM and South Hill Park.

Click here to listen on line http://resonancefm.com/schedule
Please wear headphones if possible.

'Plan for Space; urban space’
volume 3, sonic edition

"The right to the city" the ability of citizens acting individually and collectively often outside of the institutional framework, to shape urban experience according to their wants and needs.

This edition of the Plan for Space is the third in a series of Architectural investigations. The plans study selected locations in order to understand the impact it has upon its users and interactions taking place within it. The intention of the architecture is weighed against the actuality of its use and often a rift is identified. Sonic interventions are devised to site specifically explore the notion of the rift. The experiments either attempt to expose the rift, propose a remedy or simply try encourage existing unexpected uses, always exploring the cause and effect possibilities of sound. Methods and research are outlined and discussed, and conclusions are occasionally drawn.

Fundamentally these experiments are fruitless acts, handmade sonic gestures often only partially attempting to cause affect. These sonic experiments are structured within a framework of faux architectural plans to give weight to a separate argument. Within the logical structure of research, aims and outcomes a simple exercise of attempting to exert control over our own environments is clearly visible. The plans intend to open discussion about how the built environment can have effect upon individuals within it and also to question our own abilities to affect our spaces. These 'Plans' invite an audience to a spectacle of enjoyable failure, of sonic investigations and experiments.

Listen again?

Show #4 Lisa Hall framework #354: 2011.12.04 Posted: Sun, 4 Dec 2011

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Show #3 Thea Stallwood framework #352: 2011.11.20 Posted: Sun, 20 Nov 2011

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Show #2 Jane Pitt framework #350! 2011.11.06 Posted: Sun, 6 Nov 2011

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Show #1 Martin Franklin

http://www.digitalmediacentre.org/wp/?p=1533

Travel Sound

2011-10-30T17:12:00.001-07:00

I have been off travelling around Indonesia and Thailand for the past two months. I splashed out and bought some FANTASTIC new microphones for the trip and now have memory card after memory card stacked full of sound recordings. None of these were recorded with particular projects in mind, instead i preferred to just listen and see what i could find.

I heard some amazing examples of nature, from frog trumpet choruses, to electronic birds, to gibbons that sounded like muffled children singing in closets, to the hustle and bustle of China Town in Bangkok and thunder storms on Thai Islands.

all are coming soon ....

Exploring Field Recording, on the radio.

2011-10-30T16:45:00.000-07:00

Im working with three other artists interested in sonic interventions, acoustic architecture and urban sounds of control, each creating an individual one hour radio broadcasts with 'Framework: Afield', a collaborative project with South HIll Park and Framework Radio, all to be aired later this year on Resonance FM.

Martin at South Hill Park kicked things off with some interviews of our initial ideas. Check out his Gene Pool Podcast on the making of our sonic explorations;

http://www.digitalmediacentre.org/wp/?p=1533

MEMORY SOUNDSCAPES

2011-10-30T12:04:00.000-07:00

MEMORY SOUNDSCAPES from my travels to Thailand and Indonesia.

(not recorded due to battery failure, my own reaction failure, 'not a good time' syndrome, or for some reason just didn't think to record it)

Muzak, Indonesian style.

When travelling on a night bus you will experience very loud 'happy hardcore' music played being blared down on the travellers through speakers along the length of the bus. There is no getting away from this music, it is on every bus, all night, nice and loud. Each bus seems to have the same cd too. The locals don't bat an eyelid about this auditory assault.

The transition from quiet jungle life to a busy river port.

After three days of being on a klotok river boat and in the jungle listening out for birds and orangutans we emerged into a busy river port in an extremely wide stretch of the river, the sounds of cranes, machinery and electronic bird call filled our ears. The sounds were so metallic and sharp and dispersed in this wide space in total opposition to the acoustic dynamics we had just left.

Chainsaws in the jungle

I might have a bad recording of this, but thats not ok. This was actually a small cricket sized insect that makes an electrical sound almost like a chainsaw. When they get going it really sounds as if your in the mids of deforestation.

Sonic advertising.

'You, miss, come here, yes!' 'transpoooort' 'hello, yes, yes, have a seat' it was non stop, in your face, sonic advertising at its best. The one time i tried to record it in a particularly active spot and they barely said anything to us, typical.

more to come ...

Speculum Artium

2011-04-14T13:19:00.001-07:00

Playing at the traditional new media art festival in Slovenia with the Akwardstra, a site specific sonic improvisational group.

Speculum Artium features guests and projects from all over the world, curated by Herwig Steiner.

Opening at Wednesday, 20th of April at 19:00 in Labour Home Trbovlje, Slovenia

Click on the links above for further information.

Plan for Space, the mobile edition

2011-03-02T16:00:00.001-08:00

Booklet discussing ideas around everyday urban space;

Identifying a disconnection between subject and space.
Proposing a method of self interruption.
Testing a home made device, again and again and again on on individual

2011-03-02T15:54:00.000-08:00

2010-10-13T15:04:00.000-07:00

How can we interupt ourselves ?

2010-10-13T15:03:00.001-07:00

What effects do open public spaces (pavements / walkways / transport etc) have on the behaviour and ideas of an individual, and how can this be interrupted?

Audio Graffiti

2010-09-30T09:12:00.000-07:00

Work in progress ; exploring the public domain with sonic interruptions ...

Coming soon at the Sound Art MA final show Nov/Dec 2010

Plan for Space

2010-09-30T08:05:00.000-07:00

A continued investigation into planned space and uses of space, through sonic experimentation

Starting with a booklet case study on the Heygate Estate in Elephant and Castle, London.

Storm

2009-05-15T09:52:00.000-07:00

'Storm' audio project is an exploratory step into ideas of local and assumed soundscapes, thinking of the social and psychological implications of sound and the potential for interrupting and altering these within the everyday.

Five months of weather storms, rain, hail, wind and thunder were captured in audio and assembled as one conclusive storm lasting 30 minutes.
The storm sounds were broadcast on two radio stations in Kent, filling homes and offices with the storm sounds as they leaked unexpectedly out of their radios altering their daily soundscapes.

Storm was also exhibited as an interactive audio performance at Whitstable Biennale where small domestic transmitters allowed the sounds to take on a sculptural aspect -inhabiting specific spaces.The video documention (put together when working recently at UCA) shows visitors taking radios and headphones from the central concrete area, as they moved off and onto the grass their radios began to pick up the storm broadcast, they walked into a new and evolving physical soundscape,of raging winds and electrical rain delivered through the airwaves and the headphones.

wear headphones :)

Tree Performance

2009-05-13T11:19:00.000-07:00

A work in progress - An Audio Performance / unannounced intervention for outdoor spaces

Speakers will be appearing in trees -posing as birds- imitating the calls of local and exotic wildlife. The additional soundscapes hope to physically affect the behavior of the passing bird life with the calls and deterrents voiced through the bird recordings, while enriching and bringing into question the sense of place for passing people with a touch of the absurd.

“Nobody seems to require anything to be real in its totality. It’s almost as if unadulterated realness has become an unrealistic expectation. However partial realness –reality in the right context – has become central to the success of just about everything that falls into the category of consumer art. The idea of fiction revealing mans greater truth about life has been replaced by the notion that truth can be found only in what’s already there –even if what is there is never real to begin with”

-Chuck Klosterman

Exhibited:

Tree performance was installed at the Deal Sound Pier festival in July 2009

The folkestone fringe was commissioned by the Deal music festival to produce audio and visual works that responded to Deal pier and town. For the event I installed the off site audio intervention outside one of the Music Festival Venues. The speakers were placed in a tree within St Georges Church ground, on Deal High street. The bird sounds playing intermittently were of tropical parrots /Parakeets which blended with the native bird calls.

Folkestone Fringe also produced a CD of all the sound works for the event.

Research...
Continued conversation with RSPCB about the use of audio calls.... lots of interesting things are being dug up -indicating the power that recorded sound has in certain contexts, and the fact that this is taken seriously i.e there are even laws in place to control the use of it (within a wild life context).

Audio Controll: Used to deter wild life from areas such as airports, roads and buildings, which leads us to ask: When is the effect of sound on humans considered 'controll' ...

[a little idea to be made]

2009-05-13T11:07:00.000-07:00

Faux Reality (tree performance) continued....

Small music boxes with the metal prongs replaced with birds feet... and the feet tuned to play bird song. To be placed in trees and played at random by passers by...

Work in progress for the Art Car Boot Fair...

2009-05-12T11:13:00.001-07:00

Musical Braille: Translating musical scores into braille scores; embossing them onto 15inch square prints; for the car boot - Wurlitzer sheet music.

Display....
Thinking about finding some curved juke box lighting... but where