Jude's blog

Improvisation:

Improvisation is always new and leaves chance to decide the journey of the song. I enjoy the organic and unexpected sounds and that the outcome is somewhat out of my control. My creative process primarily consists of sitting down and experimenting informally with ideas through a stream of consciousness.

On-Screen:

I have always loved the art of composing music for films and media; I’m most interested in the correlation between sound and what’s happening on screen. I feel that my workflow benefits from the use of a brief. As the majority of my work is constructed from improvisation, I feel that I often need direction to inspire me.

Performance:

My musical background began in the early years of high school when I started a band with a few classmates. Performing is an aspect of sound arts that I am most confident in. Being given the opportunity to perform around the country gives me the chance to constantly develop this skill. Watching live performances by bands that inspire me such as the Talking Heads (Stop Making Sense) and Radiohead fuel my desire to practise all areas of performance, most notably stage presence and the ability to inspire an audience.

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.