Al's XPUB2 proposal draft

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Questions

1. What do you want to make?
   
2. How do you plan to make it?
   
3. What is your timetable? [stages] [deadlines]
   
4. Why do you want to make it?
   
5. Who can help you and how?
   
6. Relation to previous practice
   
7. Relation to a larger context
   
8. References/bibliography
9. Who is the work for (part of why do you want to make it)
   

What do you want to make?

[collaborative research] this project is being done [partially] in collaboration with mits🤖. Together, we aim at researching and working on sound as a format for our project/s.

Mitsa and i shared our personal researches and looked for the keywords of our interests. Then, we put them together to build up to our joint project research.

[for the final graduation moment] i would like to make a sound performance and/or sound installation using the audiozines, created during our research during the whole year [could make a rhythm of making one zine per month, e.g.]. Those zines would be also documented in printed zine versions [the two formats can also go together - transmedia storytelling - like some part of the content is only on the printed zine; some - on the audio].

I am struggling with finding my research question.

What could it be about? I have many ideas, some of them are:

• methods to create audiozines?
• methods to create collective audiozines?
• parallel diaries - ways to connect each other by recording something in the same moment
• sounds from the public spaces (to what sounds, noises are we exposed) - like at 1:30 AM roadworks next to my room [collect field recordings + add my personal emotions to those moments with music/abstract sounds + add keywords/illustration]
• recording the sounds of the body (hugging...)

Interested in facilitating jams. Research pad about that is here.

[notes from interviews]

-one audio part - a sound pub - can be placed in many ways
-physical zine
-process of scheduled zine creation (they become a collection to use for performing and make a documentation of)
-improvised creations - sketches in sound
-the ideas: very meta; what are the actual contents of the zines? they can be records of specific moments - what is the criteria, how do you choose these moments and with whom
-it is about the structure and not about the topic
-put a deadline for topic exploration - until when it's ok to not know it :D

Why do you want to make it?

Last year I loved the format of weekly releases - doing small experiments and reflecting on some topics/ideas with sound (and sometimes an image). I imagine that the experiments can then build up a bigger topic and research question.
I am looking for a research question that can include collecting data through sound.

[notes from the interview] -the places where we do them will bring context
-find a pattern
-what is for myself the relevance of this research question? why is it important?

How do you plan to make it?

I would like to try out the following:
_1 - collect and map methods to collect sound; also ways to edit it and looking for the reasons behind both choices of method;
_2 - starting doing small experiments with different ways to create sound (computer-base and analog, by jams, by field recording) - I feel like I need to try some of them out first (explain what is electronic and what analog);
_3 - creating small experiments with a particular ask/question/intention behind - in search of the research topic maybe?
_4 - recording sound, mixing it due to some concept and then creating small zines to see how it's going to look like
_5 - idea to create an instrument (maybe facilitating sessions when others play with this instrument with an assignment to create something specific)
_6 - idea of using Room for sound - invite residents to participate - diffractive mixing of their contributions

[notes from the interview]
>> the final performance can be a diffractive listening to the different publications - thus, creating a new one (question: why? what will that bring?)
_I really have the audiozine format - speaks about the velocity and easiness to collect and distribute them - easy to distribute;
_what are the characteristics of the zine to experiment in the context of these ideas - e.g. common characteristics of the zine that can frame the experiment

What is your timetable?

october

ways to collect and edit sound + ways to facilitate jams

1_ reflect on the mixing we did - to unpack what we did // with Mitsa
2_ schedule jams and collecting sounds moments // with Mitsa
3_ filed recording experiments // 10-14 oct
4_ public moment in leszaal - ??? what to do // (idea of sound installation or recording people doing stuff)

outcomes:

_documentation and raw-raw draft of proposal
_field recordings
_sounds created
_experiments with edited sound
_pure data experiments
_facilitated jam(s) experiments

november

ways to collect and edit sound + ways to facilitate jams + proposal draft

1_ get inspiration // 2 nov Bon Iver live // 25 nov Arooj Aftab, Lucrecia Dalt live
2_ prototype of audiozine + print zine - test the combo - put all experiments together
3_ edit music and sound + document methods
4_ explore topics: what makes all the experiments so far come together?
5_ thesis outline - what form will it take (a report of the research and practice?)

outcomes:

_proposal ready // 18 nov 
_thesis outline (form) // 18 nov
_prototype of audiozine 
_topics drafting start

Who can help you and how?

[space] would like to try out different spaces and locations in rotterdam; also inviting different people and orchestrating jams with various publics [when that is possible]

• make a list with spaces that we are interested in making jams in;
• what are the characteristics of these places and how to use them in relation to our jam?

[publics] define different publics and test with them; who is also doing something similar in the area?

[xpub]

• check with tutors: places in Rotterdam where we can make jams + do we have budget to rent rooms & equipment; read & works recommendations on audiozines and sound publications

Relation to previous practice

Relation to a larger context

References/bibliography

WIP

reads

Oliveros, P., 2005. Deep Listening. New York. Deep Listening Publications. [annotated pad] Evens, A., 2005. Sound Ideas: Music, Machines & Experience. U of Minnesota Press [annotated pad]
Kreidler, J. 2013. loadbang. Programming Electronic Music in Pure Data. 2nd edition. Hofheim: Wolke Verlag.
Weiss, A., 2001. Experimental Sound & Radio. The MIT Press.
Groot, M. 2019. The Amateur's Armour. [online] Available at: <https://underbelly.nu/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/The-Amateurs-Armour.pdf> [Accessed 11 October 2022].

sound publications

Brown, A. R., 2022. Beneath Maiwar.[online] Available at: <https://www.explodingart.com/arb/2022/06/28/beneath-maiwar/> [Accessed 30 September 2022]. [annotated pad]
Nagy, A., 2018. Hackpact / Sonification Studies. [online] Available at: <https://stc.github.io/HackPact/> [Accessed 30 September 2022]. [annotated pad]

Who is the work for?

_educators: people who are facilitating various educational activities and are looking for ways to bring more mixed media in their activities;
artists: who are looking for new techniques for their practice and ways to experiment, boost their creative process; to find more ways to reflect over topics and contents;
_tba: who else? tba

Research places

wiki

▶ Al Nik's Hackpact
▶ Sound jams research

wip

▶ the first draft pad [created during the Graduate Seminar on 29-09-2022]
▶ jams ideas
▶ references - collective pad with Mitsa

research pads

▶ audiozines
▶ pure data
▶ live coding