Much of 24 Hour Sibelius has had to be going on in my head recently, rather than in actuality, as I have rather alot of life things going on. However, I have been thinking it through when I can, and allowing it to make its own connections and developments. I do love thinking through a big complex project like that, and the thinking of it is an important part.
One of the elements to emerge has been about the scoring, and the actual music. In my first year of my degree, and so in 2001 - 2002, I spent alot of time getting creative with the photocopier and with script and scores. I was really examining the more hidden aspects of writing and music, the complexities and invisibilities of communication. Some of these images came clearly into my mind while thinking of 24 Hour Sibelius, as a very apt set of starting imagery and ideas. There are several strains - the sound, the installation, the moving image, the drawing, the musical conventions.
I have many of these pieces still, and will scan and use them now when I get the time. It feels right. Rather than going backwards, I have always had a sense that some work is not to do with when it was done, but that it is a part of my aesthetic language or repertoire, that has its day for development or use when the time is right. It's sort of joyful to make connections between different years as if they are a continuous thought. I love that feeling of connection in remembering exactly making a previous image, and layering that with other times.
9th April 2013
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I couldn't find exactly the images I was thinking of, but rediscovered these photographs, which are a good aesthetic start for me for this project. I had been thinking of photocopies I did - there is such a unique look and feel of those. I plan to spend some time at some point taking the photocopies I imagine - I'd love a photocopier of my own - not just a scanner. The photocopier somehow is like a little solid film.
16th April 2013
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Now I have at last come to making the sound for moving image piece Construction, and I have realised that constructing moving image around sound or music is not the way for me - it comes from a different place, the idea, the imagery and where that leads me. The sound is secondary, but it must be there, and it must be right. Research in this area is reading, listening and pondering my own revelations and ideas. I also realise that I already do have a long established practice in constructing moving image, and I'm going to build upon that. I make sound really in exactly the same way I make moving image - isolating the key moments, and then layering them and building them up into a structure according the the piece.
For Construction I have made a track of voices - mostly crowds, mostly indistinct. These are gleaned from a mixture of public domain sounds and recordings I already have. Now all I need is an exquisitely beautiful sound - music, string, bells, singing, air, magic. I could only imagine the sound once I have seen the completed moving image piece. The voices are murmuring like thoughts and memories, while the musical sound is the essence.
22nd August 2013
Making the sound track for Construction. I found a sound like the high, wordless beauty I was imagining - rubbing the rim of wine glasses. It's a tricky sound to record and process, and I had to relearn my minidisc player and make it compatible with windows 7
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