Initial Interest in Sound Arts

During my early life, I was always being subjected to loud and ferocious guitar music through the influence of my parents and siblings’ particular taste at the time. Consisting of lots of disco, Damien Rice, Jimi Hendrix and Led Zeppelin. The things that stick out to me the most in music are the use of unusual techniques in both composition and overall sonic characteristics. I’ve become so interested in breaking down the ways in which I can make my instruments sound unrecognizable but melancholic through the use of effects processing, sampling and building big walls of sound. 

Over the years I have developed an interest in composing for films. This interest has been fuelled by the work of Jonny Greenwood from his mind bending guitar trickery to his well crafted soundscapes and demonstrations of atonality, sincerity, darkness and how to clash sounds. 

To me, sound arts is the ability to curate and take sounds from their initial source to build new associations with the songs and sounds we surround ourselves in. I want to develop my understanding of practical spaces, engineering sounds, designing my own effects pedals, building and breaking down microphones and to find new and innovative ways to destroy and warp sounds for conceptual practises.