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Here's another one ! This one was on forced and free formation, and what my personal take was on it :D Made it using canvas, & figured it doesn't look half bad!
Honestly I just bullshitted most of my way through it because I just wanted to get it done, but it's still presentable so here we go haha
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PMM Study Task 4: Post audio mashup to SoundCloud and embed in blog
This task requires you to perform a few connected actions:
Create an audio mashup, collage or essay using audio software of your choice.
Create a SoundCloud account (or use an existing one) and post your audio file there.
Embed the SoundCloud link into your blog.
Below is an example. The audio was created in Audacity, exported as a MP3, posted to SoundCloud, then embedded by copying the embed code from SC into the HTML version of this post.
PMM Study Task 3: Embed audio and video
If you haven’t done so yet, now is the time to add some audio and video examples to your site as embedded media. How you do this will depend on which platforms you are using (meaning both which blogging platform and which audio/video platforms). Below are:
An embedded Spotify playlist, which was added by copying the ‘embed code’ of the playlist in the standalone Spotify PC app and pasting it into the HTLM version of this post.
An embedded YouTube playlist, added by copying the embed code from the YT playlist editor and pasting it into the HTML version of this post.
PMM Study Task 2: Photo Story
For your second study task, you should post a photo story on a topic relevant to the module, such as the history of sound recording or the relationship between sound and visual media (film, TV, games, etc.). You should caption your photos and list your sources, as in the examples below (if you are using your own photos, mention it and take the credit).
As well as captioning your photos, you may want to add some additional text at this point to give context to your photo choices and provide a narrative (see the wesbite linked to in the third caption below for an example of this photo being used as part of a written narrative).
Asch Records release. Source: discogs.com
Disc release from 1946. Source: discogs.com
Folkways Records release from 1961. Source: Musical Materialities.
PMM Study Task 1: Set up blog and publish first post
For your first study task, you should set up a blog (in Tumblr or elsewhere) and publish your first post(s). Before publishing, take some time to edit the appearance of your blog and give it a title. If you’re using Tumblr, this can be done using the ‘Edit appearance’ feature (below). You may also wish to change your blog’s theme.
Once you’ve done that, write your first post. This should be on a topic covered in one of the first sessions, such as the relationship between popular music and media, or music and mediation. As well as text, try to include some visual material and try adding some hyperlinked text to your post to take your readers to another website; later, when writing assessed work, you can use these links to make reference to sources you used or that you would like to direct your readers to for additional information. To do this in Tumblr, highlight the text you wish to use as the link and then select the link icon (below) or use Ctrl-K. It’s a good idea to set your links to open content in new windows so that your readers don’t have to navigate back to your site; for more information on how to do this in Tumblr, see this post.
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exhibition statement
‘…a subconscious poetry of objects is something new, something intriguing, something that is accompanied by a world of associations and references.’
- Ann Gallagher
‘Fridge’ is an invitation to a dialogue between the viewer and the object. It is a study of things and products found in the kitchen space, deliberately taken out of context and put together in a space free of familiar connotation. It is a play of form and visual metaphor, of the plastic and the natural, with no right or wrong ways of understanding it. It is for the viewer to define and decipher the meaning behind each photograph, the relations within each arrangement of objects, which will differ for everyone depending on personal background and cultural memory, imagination and associations. ‘Fridge’ is an ongoing practice of exploring the world from a different perspective and discovering the narrative potential of things that people are too used to ignoring.
STUDY TASK 6- SUBCULTURE
SKATEBOARDING
For this study task I chose Skating, I’ve always found the history of this subculture interesting. In the past I’ve had people around me that have been heavily influenced by the subculture and so have been researching the background for a few years now. I chose these photographs of the Z-Boys who were a key catalyst in the making of skateboarding. This group were probably the most famous out of any and were the key in the start of skating merchandise and advertising. I feel these images represent the skating scene as it was then and now. The group photo of the skaters shows the attitude and unapproachable arrogance that skaters have always had. The whole subculture of skating derived from the sport of surfing back in the 1970s when a drought hit California, which lead to a pipe ban on the state. This meant many swimming pools were left empty and vacant, more and more skaters started to take advantage of this, which revolutionised the skating scene. Skaters back then were perceived by the public as criminals and rebellious, clearly because trespassing on peoples property is illegal, also where skating was involved a lot of the time graffiti followed too.
After years and years of the skating scene having a dark light in society it crashed in the mid 70s, but then made a come back as slightly more civilised and more accepted by the public. This then pushed the commercialisation of the subculture forward and soon many skaters were sponsored and advertised in the sport. The commercialization helped globally spread skating. “When Tony Alva came out with his first ad for his first company, it was a complete revolution to the skateboarding industry people were just up in arms,…. it was all of a sudden the advertising was no longer about skateboarding it had nothing to do with the product anymore, it was about attitude.” Stacey Peralta, Dogtown and Z-Boys 2001. Alva skates was one of the first companies that revolutionised the skateboarding community and started the change that has stuck until the modern day scene of skating. I think the commercialisation of skateboarding was a good thing, it made it more approachable and has exploded the fashion trends of today, I’m sure many skaters would say it’s a bad thing as it makes the culture ‘mainstream’ however if it hadn’t have been commercialised in the mid 70s it could have possibly died out again and wouldn’t still be so apparent today.
STUDY TASK 5- CONSUMERISM
KEITH YAHRLING AMERICAN CONSUMERISM
Yahrling’s take on Consumerism photography is interesting; he shows the normally busy and occupied spaces of consumerism in an empty and tidy perception, almost like they are taken at night when consumerism stops. He chooses mundane scenes that typically we all see in our day to day consumer driven lives however he uses high saturation to make his images pop out compared to other classic consumerism photography. Looking at these physically empty yet objectively busy spaces gives an eerie vibe to the photographs and makes the audience feel unnerved. His images show the ever expanding quantity of products and shops. It displays 1. Because our supermarkets are made for mass production it shows our population and consumption is the biggest it’s ever been 2. Because every company is in competition with one another, each shop gets bigger in order to stock more to attract more customers which in turn leads to a higher percentage of wastage and 3. Because of the high demand in food many products quality has decreased and quantity increased. It shows how much we rely on man made things and have moved on from just living off the land. Everything is synthetic nowadays, especially in the US, and the high saturation in these images indicates that as a theme.
