Annotated Bibliography Tutorial:
This session was really important for me to ask some questions I had regarding the Annotated Bibliography and go through my key texts to find what was appropriate and what could be replaced with more central research sources.
It was also really helpful to see Katie's annotated bibliography as hers was formatted in the way that I had hoped to format my own. Therefore the feedback she received about the aesthetic of the document was helpful by proxy to what I will aim to produce with my own.
Feedback from Contextual Review Draft:
Here are the notes and thoughts after reviewing my Contextual review with Willem:
Headings
- Headings can be used to break up text and make it more digestible.
Hauntology
- Key sources have been identified but there needs to be a better explanation of what exactly haunts the white cube. Is the answer sound? if so, then what types of sound etc.
- Sound is the Primary, we experience a haunting first by sound before anything else.
Questions
- Leave some questions unanswered. Construct lines of inquiry to set up the rest of the research rather than define its results.
Sound/Image
- Associations between haunting and proximity: a sound that is haunting is one that cannot be located.
- Haunting and the directional speaker systems, these can tap into this relationship of seeing and listening.
- Bringing back sound to vision
- Cage's noise sounds could be amplified through speaker systems as a part of the existing soundscape
Methodology
- Amplify sounds that already haunt the gallery: noise of the sound of spectators, pipes in the wall and electrical humming
- When a sound can be experienced as haunting a space, the research becomes more practical.
[Brief interruption of a heating system, whose sound haunts the space (Recording on phone). Similar to Das Rheingold - the Journey Begins)
Imaginaries
- Careful with use of words lie imaginaries, could find a simpler word for it. Ideated maybe?
Aura and Aurality
- Walter Benjamin's Aura and the aurality of sound. - What is the aural aspect of aura?
Save for later
- some elements aren't needed: e.g. paragraph on Aura and paragraph on the digital
Action agreed from this review:
- Visually structure review with headings
- Remove sections that aren't as relevant now
- List some key theorists + artists, not just sound artists but land artists etc
- Illustrate anything that is worth illustrating
- Add a title to the review that is different to the title of the research question.
- The research question can be mentioned in the introduction
Workshop with Emma, Mapping your Methods:
This workshop helped me to reflect on the precise methods of gathering data for my research. This will help to inform the methodology of my revised research proposal.
I have decided to produce a format of sound installation that can be installed in several different contexts. The work will reflect how the gallery space is haunted, using recordings of people walking, whispering and the humming of electrical equipment. Emma made sure to make the point that my own artistic influence on the work should not be overlooked, not just in a scientific sense but in the case that artistic composition will make the work more enjoyable and engaging. The soundscape, which reflects the way that the gallery space is haunted by sound, will be installed into a white cube setting and in public spaces, directional speakers may be used to further haunt the spaces. The data from these exhibitions may be in recordings, but also I would hope to gather quantitative and qualitative data on the peripheral environment's effect on engagement and experience.
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