Interviews

As part of our research we discussed the idea of interviewing a series of people that focus their practices on the effects of the senses. We didn't ask particularly specific questions, the idea was to get an overview of certain elements they considered as part of their way of working and thinking. I was part of assisting with two of the interviews, one for which we interviewed my friend Jensen Brite a Sound Designer and Music student from Salford University. Some of what he talked about concerned how vision is our primary sense and it allows us to see things in order to interpret them and understand what they represent. Also how sound is an instantaneous thing, and we use sound to rectify and understand what vision presents with us.
The second interview was with Collectives and Curiosities, a collaborative group of musicians that put much emphasis on the importance of integrating across the art forms and have done many collaborative projects. One of which took place at Blank Space Media Collective relatively recently, this exhibition incorporated ideas concerning light sensitive sounds. Some of the points discussed by Michael Betteridge and Jacob Thompson Bell were about passive and active listening, and how you can sit an listen to something your not really listening to, you let it wash over you like an ambient thing or you can actively listen but your still sitting on your seat being an observer, an audience member rather than a component part of it, you don't even need to have an audience to have something performed. This is one of the main factors that concerns their work, that the audience must be involved and potentially become a part of the work.