Sound Design: Research
Jean-Michel Basquiat was New York's star of the street art scene during the 1970's and 80's. He was an anti-establishment graffiti artist which is clearly reflected in this piece, 'Obnoxious Liberals'. Before doing research on the context of the painting I wanted to form my own interpretation that hadn't yet been clouded. I was drawn by the bold use of contrasting primary colours but also of the dark figures. When I had a closer look at the painting, you could see that the dark figure on the left was chained down as if trapped. The painting depicts a series of figures representing capitalism . In addition, Basquiat touches on the systematic oppression of African Americans at the time through the use of the dark skin if the figures. The painting feels very chaotic. However, Basquiat carefully constructed his paintings so he could clearly get the message he had in mind across. The painting also links to the story of Samson who is depicted to be chained and trapped by society, and is almost a symbol of slavery. The figure on the right is a collector who wants to buy the art symbolised by the dollar signs. However, the artist him self exclaims that the piece is 'NOT FOR SALE' in the middle with his symbol of the three pointed crown on top. I am particularly drawn to this piece because of its boldness in style and content; he calls out the evils that he sees in society. This is especially relevant as when he produced the painting he was just becoming famous.
APEX TWIN
I began to research Aphex Twin who is an electronic, ambient, glitch and experimental sound musician. I was really drawn to his 2014 album SYRO, particularly the 7th track,
'fz pseudotimestretch+e+3 [138.85]' :
The first 20 seconds of the track is a voice that sounds very glitchy, distorted and abstracted. Almost as if something was malfunctioning. I really like how he focuses on particular sounds and then works on developing that. Most of the sounds he produces have been generated electronically which I thought was very interesting as he doesn't actually play anything. He buys random electronic stuff and makes music from them. He has created a whole new form and genre of music, a way of communicating new sound to people.
This then led me to looking at the process of 'glitching'. Especially after having been introduced to it in a recent lecture.
Glitching Media
The art of glitching involves looking at digital or analogue errors and then manipulating this to become a style or an aesthetic. It takes pixelation, interruption and glitches and uses these to make interesting pieces. Previously, people have been focused on correcting these glitches and preventing them. However, this new art movement embraces glitching.
NAM JUNE PAIK
Paik is a South Korean glitch artist who has had a major impact on media culture through the manipulation of technology. He has often been labelled as the "godfather of video art'. Most of his work delves in to the relationship between the East and the West as he lived in Japan, Germany and the USA. But across all of his work, it is apparent that he is very playful and experimental through films, objects, installation.
On the London trip we saw Paik's work which consisted of visual glitches:
In terms of this project, I plan on taking the raw data for a digital image of Basquiat's Obnoxious Liberals and then bending ( deleting or adjusting bits ) of it to then turn it in to an audio track.
Basquiat's work was a completely new wave of art and I wanted to represent a new form of communication/sound that mirrored his piece. This is really what made me delve in to the art of glitching. I felt that because he was breaking stereotypes, that I should too
Jean-Michel Basquiat was New York's star of the street art scene during the 1970's and 80's. He was an anti-establishment graffiti artist which is clearly reflected in this piece, 'Obnoxious Liberals'. Before doing research on the context of the painting I wanted to form my own interpretation that hadn't yet been clouded. I was drawn by the bold use of contrasting primary colours but also of the dark figures. When I had a closer look at the painting, you could see that the dark figure on the left was chained down as if trapped. The painting depicts a series of figures representing capitalism . In addition, Basquiat touches on the systematic oppression of African Americans at the time through the use of the dark skin if the figures. The painting feels very chaotic. However, Basquiat carefully constructed his paintings so he could clearly get the message he had in mind across. The painting also links to the story of Samson who is depicted to be chained and trapped by society, and is almost a symbol of slavery. The figure on the right is a collector who wants to buy the art symbolised by the dollar signs. However, the artist him self exclaims that the piece is 'NOT FOR SALE' in the middle with his symbol of the three pointed crown on top. I am particularly drawn to this piece because of its boldness in style and content; he calls out the evils that he sees in society. This is especially relevant as when he produced the painting he was just becoming famous.
APEX TWIN
I began to research Aphex Twin who is an electronic, ambient, glitch and experimental sound musician. I was really drawn to his 2014 album SYRO, particularly the 7th track,
'fz pseudotimestretch+e+3 [138.85]' :
The first 20 seconds of the track is a voice that sounds very glitchy, distorted and abstracted. Almost as if something was malfunctioning. I really like how he focuses on particular sounds and then works on developing that. Most of the sounds he produces have been generated electronically which I thought was very interesting as he doesn't actually play anything. He buys random electronic stuff and makes music from them. He has created a whole new form and genre of music, a way of communicating new sound to people.
This then led me to looking at the process of 'glitching'. Especially after having been introduced to it in a recent lecture.
Glitching Media
The art of glitching involves looking at digital or analogue errors and then manipulating this to become a style or an aesthetic. It takes pixelation, interruption and glitches and uses these to make interesting pieces. Previously, people have been focused on correcting these glitches and preventing them. However, this new art movement embraces glitching.
NAM JUNE PAIK
Paik is a South Korean glitch artist who has had a major impact on media culture through the manipulation of technology. He has often been labelled as the "godfather of video art'. Most of his work delves in to the relationship between the East and the West as he lived in Japan, Germany and the USA. But across all of his work, it is apparent that he is very playful and experimental through films, objects, installation.
On the London trip we saw Paik's work which consisted of visual glitches:
In terms of this project, I plan on taking the raw data for a digital image of Basquiat's Obnoxious Liberals and then bending ( deleting or adjusting bits ) of it to then turn it in to an audio track.
Basquiat's work was a completely new wave of art and I wanted to represent a new form of communication/sound that mirrored his piece. This is really what made me delve in to the art of glitching. I felt that because he was breaking stereotypes, that I should too
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