Al's XPUB2 proposal draft

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 Mitsa. Together, we aim at researching and working on sound as a format for our project/s.

[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?

What is your timetable?

Who can help you and how?

Relation to previous practice

Relation to a larger context

References/bibliography

Who is the work for?

Archive

▶ the first draft pad [created during the Graduate Seminar on 29-09-2022]