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I realised I had to work exploring my family, not know who I am made me focus on my past and my "origins". I wanted to know who I was by knowing my family first.

The member of the family that has always ruled my life, choices, ideas, mindset, likings, is my father, and it's because of this that I had to make a piece about him.
It came through without me even realising, I started by drawing a whole picture of him and then I almost automatically started covering him up.

The covering doesn't mean he's being blocked out, it's more about the way I cover it, the movement and gesture, how exhausting it was to stay there whole days, the dedication.

Also about the material, I used graphite because it represents my childhood as well as my ideas. I used to draw only in pencil when I was a kid.
Graphite is also the material used to do sketches in most cases, you can erase it and it's more versatile than ink, but most important, since you use it for sketches / ideas it's for something in your head, something that you're trying to get out of your head so that you can see it, analyse it, study it.

There are also symbolic meanings like the left hand, the only part of my father that I didn't cover. The hand is the tool for control, it's what humans have that animals don't. But it's the left hand, the hand of the devil, someone you can't trust, "something sinister".

But at the same time the piece itself is massive, representing something that I aspire to, I see it as an icon, a figure to follow. I create this opposition of values, love and hate.

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https://www.treccani.it/vocabolario/pseudo/

https://it.glosbe.com/it/grc/mondo

https://www.storicang.it/a/ptah-e-creazione-mondo-attraverso-parola_15220

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Work in progress - Father Figure / control

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Work in progress - Father Figure / control

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big plank of wood completely covered with pencil / graphite

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Self-portrait with mirror used (by someone else) to sniff cocaine

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LCC - Father Figure / Frames of confusing time

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LCC - Father Figure / Frames of confusing time

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I had the opportunity to show some pictures / works I did at LCC.
I was too drunk to remember anything.

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Something I've been thinking about recently is how money completely destroyed art, how they transformed something that was meant to follow itself into something that follows trends.
The death of a practice.

What I'm trying to do is convince myself into focusing only on art and not the monetary aspect.
Make it pure and understand humanity fully.
like a baby discovers the world I need to make art understand its spectator / aim.

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Ptah and the creation of the world through words

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Ptah and the creation of the world through words

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While researching for the name of my world I came across Ptah, the god of creation in Egyptian mythology.
The thing that I found the most interesting is how he created it, he created everything by simply saying its name, and now we named everything, we gave everything a meaning, a purpose and we explained why it exists, if it doesn't have a purpose we eliminated it.

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Menfi è una città antichissima che, secondo la tradizione, venne fondata nel 3000 a.C. da un re di nome Menes. Secondo le liste reali egizie, il sovrano unificò sotto il suo dominio il Paese, che prima era diviso in due regni: uno al nord ed uno al sud. Menes divenne così il primo faraone della storia millenaria dell'Egitto e tutti i suoi successori portarono il titolo di "Signore delle due Terre", in ricordo di questa antica divisione.

Menfi fu scelta come capitale d'Egitto per la sua posizione strategica: si trovava infatti nel punto in cui il Nilo si apre a ventaglio per gettarsi nel Mediterraneo, quindi al confine tra il sud dell'Egitto (Alto Egitto) e il nord (Basso Egitto). Per questo motivo la città era nota con l'appellativo di "Bilancia delle due Terre". Doveva avere un'estensione enorme e, nella seconda metà del II millennio a. C., era divenuta addirittura una città cosmopolita abitata da gente di origine e di culture diverse. Fu il più importante centro amministrativo e militare del paese per tutta la durata della storia egizia, anche quando la capitale fu spostata altrove.

Purtroppo, archeologicamente parlando, rimane molto poco di questa città: una sfinge con il volto di Amenhotep II e una statua di Ramesse II. Eppure doveva essere stata una città bellissima se si da ascolto ad alcuni testi in cui si parla di lei con struggente nostalgia. Qui si trovava il palazzo del faraone e un tempio dedicato a Ptah, il dio della città e il patrono degli artisti e degli artigiani. La struttura doveva essere maestosa e senza dubbio rivestì un'enorme importanza per la religiosità egizia. Basti pensare che la parola "Egitto" sembra derivare dal nome egizio Hut-Ka-Ptah, ovvero il "palazzo dello spirito di Ptah". Successivamente i greci iniziarono a chiamare questa terra Aigyptos, e il riferimento a Ptah non apparve più così chiaramente. Ma all'interno delle mura del tempio dedicato al dio ebbe origine uno dei tanti miti egizi sulla creazione del mondo.

Ptah, il dio creatore

Probabilmente in origine era solo un dio degli artigiani, e infatti gli viene attribuita l'invenzione delle arti. Ma già dall'Antico Regno (2575-2125 a.C.) Ptah si trasformò in un dio creatore. Era rappresentato sempre in forma umana, avvolto in un mantello aderente da cui fuoriuscivano le mani che stringevano uno scettro che combinava tre segni: il was (simbolo del potere regale), il djet (simbolo di stabilità) e l' ankh (simbolo della vita) . La testa era coperta da una calotta e indossava una barba posticcia. Il suo nome potrebbe significare "colui che forgia", "il modellatore" oppure "lo scultore", e infatti nell'immaginario egizio lui è l'artigiano che diede origine all'universo.

Ma quando nasce Ptah? Come tutti i demiurghi - gli dei creatori dell'universo - la sua nascita coincide con quella del mondo. Era sposo della dea leonessa Sekhmet e loro figlio era il dio Nefertum, rappresentato in forma umana con un fiore di loto sul capo. Ptah, Sekhemt e Nefertum formavano la triade divina menfita.
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La magia della parola

Secondo il mito nato tra le mura del tempio di Ptah a Menfi, questo dio creò il mondo e tutto ciò che esiste attraverso la parola: il dio pensò alle cose che voleva creare e ne pronunciò il nome. Grazie al potere della parola tutto ciò che venne nominato dal dio iniziò ad esistere. Nel testo che ci racconta questo mito, chiamato "testo della teologia menfita", si legge:
"E' la lingua che ripete ciò che ha pensato il cuore".
In questo contesto la lingua è la parola e il cuore rappresenta il pensiero. Gli egizi infatti ritenevano che il cuore fosse la sede del pensiero, delle emozioni e dei sentimenti. Il testo continua:
"Così nacquero tutti dei. Ogni parola del dio si manifestò secondo ciò che il cuore aveva pensato e che la lingua aveva ordinato....Così è stato creato ogni lavoro ed ogni arte, l'attività delle mani, il camminare dei piedi, il moto di tutte le membra, secondo il Comando pensato dal cuore ed espresso dalla lingua".
E infine:
" ...così Ptah fu soddisfatto dopo che ebbe creato ogni cosa, ogni parola divina".
L'opera di Ptah però non si conclude con la creazione del mondo, ma continua nel tempo attraverso il lavoro e le opere degli architetti, degli scultori e dei pittori su cui egli esercita la sua protezione divina.

Di solito ogni versione della creazione del mondo secondo gli egizi parte da un materiale o un elemento preesistente. In questo senso, nel mito di Heliopolis il dio Atum creò la prima coppia divina con una parte di sé: a seconda delle versioni lo fece attraverso lo sperma, uno sputo oppure uno sternuto. In altri miti della creazione si parla di un uovo o di un fiore di Loto da cui nacque il dio creatore, o ancora si racconta di quattro coppie di rane e di serpenti da cui ebbe inizio tutto ciò che esiste. La creazione di Menfi, invece, non è materiale, è più intellettualistica e ricorda da vicino il vangelo di Giovanni :
"In principio era il Verbo, e il Verbo era presso Dio: tutto è venuto in esistenza ad opera sua".
Un rotolo roso dai vermi

Conosciamo il testo che ci racconta questo mito grazie ad una stele di pietra nera che risale al 700 a.C. e che ora si trova al British Museum di Londra. Questa stele viene dal tempio di Ptah a Menfi ed ha la superficie molto rovinata poiché è stata riutilizzata come macina di un mulino. All'inizio della stele si racconta di come il re Shabaka (XXV dinastia) fece incidere questo testo facendolo copiare da un papiro molto rovinato che era custodito nella biblioteca del tempio di Ptah a Menfi. Era un papiro dal contenuto religioso molto importante e il pio faraone facendolo trascrivere su pietra lo salvò dalle ingiurie del tempo preservandolo fino a noi. Nel testo si dice addirittura che il papiro era roso dai vermi.

Nella parte iniziale è scritto :
"Sua Maestà trascrisse di nuovo questo libro ...Sua Maestà lo aveva trovato in un' opera dei suoi antenati, divorato dai vermi: non lo si conosceva dall'inizio alla fine e Sua Maestà lo trascrisse di nuovo sicché è più bello di prima".
Il mito della creazione del mondo da parte di Ptah è la testimonianza di come, per gli antichi egizi, la parola fosse potente e magica e avesse un potere creativo poiché, come in una sorta di alchimia, trasforma il pensiero in qualcosa di tangibile e reale.
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Ptah e la creazione del mondo attraverso la parola

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Menfi è una città antichissima che, secondo la tradizione, venne fondata nel 3000 a.C. da un re di nome Menes. Secondo le liste reali egizie, il sovrano unificò sotto il suo dominio il Paese, che prima era diviso in due regni: uno al nord ed uno al sud.

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I've been working on an album named Pseudoptah.
I started creating it because a friend of mine commissioned me to make a new world using only sound.

The world I created isn't too far off from our world, I started by just observing our world, seeing how it was going for me, and then I realised that everything is tied by one thing, the human trying to control it. It doesn't matter what it is, we want to control it, bring it under us and be able to not feel threatened by it.

So I created a world where you can't control anything. Pseudoptah is a made-up word that means "fake creator", we "created" our world by naming things, giving them a meaning.
We created a system that now everyone has to follow or they're not accepted.

- Pseudo: comes from Ancient Greek and means "not genuine"

- Ptah: is the Egyptian god of creation, he created the world by thinking about the objects and then pronouncing their name.

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What’s the drive for an artist? I never actually thought about it, I just did what I thought was helpful, was correct, created interest in people’s mind.

But why do I do it, I don’t actually know.

I want to discover myself, but do we really need to know ourselves 100%? When can I stop getting to know myself.

I’m thinking of just making following myself, my style, my mind, is it correct? I guess I’ll discover it in a while.

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After being in Italy for a while now I realised, I wasn’t doing enough for my art practice, I wasn’t doing art for the sake of art but as a hobby.

I need to push myself way more than I was doing before and completely get into it, find a drive, a reason for this.

Here in Italy I’m feeling completely shut off, no ideas nor motivation to start things. I want to return to London so I can do things, but I’m scared that even after being there I would just do nothing.

Yesterday I thought about the relationship between fashion / originality / self-imposing / main character. Everyone wants to be the main character and they do so by dressing in eccentric ways, the new fashion is all neon, saying “look at me”.

I’ve been feeling like I’m in an hangover for the last month or so, I don’t know why but my head keeps spinning, I struggle concentrating and my eyes feel heavy.

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I thought about making another sculpture with concrete, this time using the Mudroc to cast my whole body, I’m going to cover my body with a plastic rug and then cover it with mudroc.

I also want to try and create noise from very subtle sounds, control how loud things are.

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I keep thinking about my father and I can’t stop, I really need to talk to him about all that I’ve been thinking.

I realised I’m attracted to powerful people, maybe because I don’t feel powerful myself, like I have no speciality, no talent or something I can call my own.

When I go back to Milan I’m going to talk with my dad.

I also keep thinking about girls, I don’t know why, maybe I see them as some sort of comfort, I want to talk to them and open up.

I feel like I have no one at all I can talk to openly, without feeling judged, feeling like they don’t care, or that I’m boring them in some way.

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Today I went to the exhibition “Douglas Gordon: Neon Ark”, I found it bland and way too visual, words are very direct and he clearly tries to subvert that by creating weird sentences. The material used is neon, which creates a material and visual effect, almost like you could hear the voice behind that colour, shape, or font.

The exhibition didn’t really have an impact on me, I feel almost untouched by it.

After that I tried going to 3 other galleries, but they were all closed because of Christmas or something else.

I decided to look for gifts for my family and found a nice bookstore where I met my flatmate by complete luck. I found an interesting book that talks about how visuals influence us and how everything is the same.

Yesterday by staying with the dog the whole day sitting on the sofa I realised what’s the thread that connects all my past and present research, my state of mind and how I’m feeling recently. Everything is tied together by CONTROL.

How the human tries to control everything, I find it interesting how as an animal we feel the urge to create a “balance”, a “way things go”, rules to follow, a system.

I need to explore this, I feel like I discovered something important and I need to study it.

I also realised that what I was doing was stupid, too fragmented, I need to focus on me, what do I created with, what’s me. Some people have paintings, some photographs, some sculptures, but what am I?

I still feel like I’m drawing, the thing I feel the most connected with, but at the same time I don’t want to focus on what feels easy, I want to explore still, but I don’t know what to try.

Also, I feel like I should focus on what I struggle with instead of staying in some sort of “comfort zone”.

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I keep looking for alcohol, everything is easier if I’m drunk, I stop thinking about my past and my future, I don’t even realise what I’m saying or doing in the present, everything is blurred, everything seems like a dream.

I play loud music, I drink, and I stop thinking, I panic and then I have no idea on how to deal with life, everything is too much. I want to be by myself, in the mountains in the middle of nowhere, with no one to interact with, just me and my head, ideas, thoughts.

I’m reading a book called “Body am I” by Moheb Constandi, it talks about how the body and the brain are connected, how the mind and the physical self are one thing.

Self-awareness both physically and mentally. While reading it I realised how little control we actually have on us, everything we perceive as true / false / real / fake is dictated by our head and mind and we take it for granted, we take reality for granted, while there are brain diseases that make you not realise that half of your body doesn’t work anymore.

I feel exposed and fragile, out of my own control, at the same time I feel like a coward for trying to take control over myself by anesthetising my brain through alcohol. That’s why I’ve been drunk for most of the last 2 weeks.

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Didn't tell me much, feels outdated.

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I was mesmerised by this sound piece, in which you had to enter some sort of house / tent made with wooden sticks, clay and hay.
Inside there were speakers all around the structure making you hear a 360 experience. There was no light so you felt detached from whatever happened outside, you're teleported somewhere else.
The sounds were organic and material at the same time, sound of water, sound of some hard material being stroked with something else.

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Hangar Bicocca - DINEO SESHEE BOPAPE Born in the first light of the morning 

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Hangar Bicocca - DINEO SESHEE BOPAPE Born in the first light of the morning 

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This first section of the Pirelli Hangar Bicocca gallery shows the artist DINEO SESHEE BOPAPE.
The piece in the picture makes us not forget episodes of injustice that happened in the past by writing about them and accompanying the with sound installations and different materials.

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An exhibition dedicated to possible futures showing how the current most advanced discoveries and technologies could led us to different utopias / dystopias.

The two pieces that struck me the most are:

-  Amy Kaler - Regenerative Reliquary (2016)
-  ESA-ESTEC - Cloud Chamber

I didn't really get anything from this exhibition but the cloud chamber was so different from anything I've seen, I was shocked to see it.

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This exhibition shows how sculptures change meaning in time, like the picture shows the heads of different gods or people recycled to represent the stages of the man (from boy to elder).

This makes me think about how people are going to see the art that's being made now in a century or so, no one is going to keep track of everything, so the multiple pieces showing "instinctual painting", or "abstract installations" are going to be seen as something weird and cryptic.

Recontextualization

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We try to control the past this time, completely ignoring the present, ignore the conventions and the people around it.

I find all of this like a big joke, everything is mediocre and nothing has an aura anymore.

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Similarities with Medardo Rosso and his "unfocussed / blurred" sculptures.

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I found the simplicity of this piece comfortable, how you let the materials interact with each other.

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Body Am I: The New Science of Self-Consciousness - Moheb Costandi

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Body Am I: The New Science of Self-Consciousness - Moheb Costandi

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This book talks about very specific brain disorders, showing how the physical body is directly connected to our mental / brain self.

Reading this book I got the feeling and the idea that we're way more fragile that I thought we were, how impossible it seems to control anything when we struggle to control ourselves in the first place.

The cases that intrigued me the most are the ones related to strokes, how the brain completely shifts, forgetting essential information without you even realising.

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At this point I don’t know if it’s better to just take a complete break or keep studying, researching, and experimenting. I feel completely empty and without energy.

I have the constant feeling that I’m doing something wrong, maybe I am, but for now the only thing that I feel like I’m doing is stressing out without actually doing anything. I should start going to the studio more often but now with the fact that I need to take care of a dog I’m kind of constricted inside my house. I could use this restriction and start something in here, inside the house.

The last week I have tried finishing a huge pencil drawing, but I keep getting distracted by invitations and dinners, it feels like I’m wasting time and space, I’m not going to galleries anymore and the only one I went to recently is the British museum, watching it passively without taking anything seriously.

I keep feeling like I’m in a hangover, I’m not drinking but my eyes are always tired, my brain is foggy, and I feel like I can’t do anything. I feel stupid.

Tomorrow I want to focus on reading, I have a series of books that I want to finish and since I’m stuck at home I might as well just read for the whole day, draw, write.

I also need to research the artists that I’ve been recommended.

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The sculpture is finished, I still need to edit and refine the sound part but I think everything is pretty much done.

I came to hate this work in the end just because now I haven't been thinking about the next project, the next idea or how to put it into practice.
I have a general idea of what I'm going to do but I'm not sure.

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Today I finally finished my sculpture, the only problem is that now I don’t know how to progress, how to continue and go forward.

I’m still thinking about the family thing, how to develop some sort of therapy from my own practice. Show reality to raise questions.

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A guy I met told me to check out the LRAD - Sound Cannon, a device used by police and military to either diapers crowd (crowd control) or send signals in the open sea.
I'm interested in the practical use of sound in addition to the emotional aspect.

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A long-range acoustic device ( LRAD) is an acoustic hailing device (AHD), sound cannon and sonic weapon developed by Genasys. It has been used as a method of crowd control, which has caused permanent hearing damage, having an extremely high decibel capacity (up to 160 dB measured at one meter from the device). Other uses have included for negotiations in siege situations to deal with piracy at sea; for mass notification during natural disasters or other emergencies; and by defense forces, including several navies.

In October 2000 the USS Cole, an American guided missile destroyer, was bombed in a terrorist attack by al-Qaeda operatives, using a small boat packed with explosives. The naval personnel on Cole were unable to be sure that their messages could be heard by the approaching boat at a sufficient distance to possibly avert the attack. The ship was badly damaged, 17 U.S. Navy sailors killed and 37 injured.

Following this attack, navies around the world made several policy changes, while the American Technology Corporation (which was rebranded to LRAD Corporation in 2010 and to Genasys in late October 2019) created and developed the AHD market, which included the launch of its proprietary Long Range Acoustic Device, a type of acoustic hailing device, in 2003. Using this new technology, it became possible for naval personnel to contact approaching vessels which did not respond to radio calls from a distance of over 3,000 m (9,800 ft), enabling them to respond appropriately in a timely manner and avert danger.

Since then the technology has developed and expanded. Genasys launched its voice-based mass notification systems in 2012, and in 2019 its unified multichannel Critical Communications and Enterprise Safety system.

LRAD devices are made by Genasys. As of 2022, the company produces a range of LRAD products for mass notification systems. Touting its primary advantage of clarity and intelligibility of voice broadcasts over large distances, its product guide cites the following features:

Controlled broadcast dispersion

Audible broadcasts feature industry leading clarity and intelligibility

30° audible transmission ranges out to 5,000 meters

60-360° audible mass notification coverage over areas up to 14 km² (5.4 sq mi)

The parameter "ka", which is the wave number multiplied by the speaker radius, is often used to characterize sound source directivity. For this source, ka=19 at 2.5 kHz, and according to the LRAD data sheet, the beam angle of about 30 degrees total is what is predicted for a regular loudspeaker.[needs update ]

Small spherical "point-source" acoustic devices follow the known inverse square law, which predicts the loss of 6 decibels (dB) per doubling of distance from the source, solely due to geometric spreading. Large speakers (or large arrays), such as these, have an interference pattern in the nearfield which produces peaks 6 dB higher than the output pressure and nulls where the pressure is essentially zero. The larger the speaker, and the higher the frequency, the longer the effective nearfield. The nearfield for this device is approximately 8 metres (26 ft). An LRAD can thus emit a targeted "beam" of sound at very high volume, up to 160 dB at one meter from the device. This is louder than standing behind a jet engine taking off, or a nearby gunshot.

Following the impetus for its initial development, 25 navies have adopted the use of LRADs as of 2022, to provide protection for their vessels. Navy personnel can contact approaching vessels from over 3,000 m (9,800 ft) and respond defensively if necessary. They are also used by coast guards, naval bases, commercial vessels, and in ports.

Genasys offers its products for the following categories of use on its U.S. website: defense, law enforcement, fire and rescue services, border security, protection of critical infrastructure, and maritime safety. As of 2022 its products are in use in 100 countries. On the Asia-Pacific website is focused on emergency management during natural disasters such as bushfires. It is not categorized as a defense item, and does not require an export license.

The technology can also be used to deter wildlife from airport runways, as at Changi Airport in Singapore, and to protect gas and oil platforms from fishing boats, birds and security threats.

There are two basic ways of using LRAD devices: for voice amplification and as an alert. The technology used in " siren mode" (called an "alert tone" by Genasys), primarily for usage in emergency situations, has also been used for crowd control. In this mode, it allows sound transmission at around 2,000-4,000 Hertz, which causes maximum discomfort for the people targeted, as this is the frequency range at human hearing is most sensitive. Although sometimes referred to as an Active Denial System, the latter is based on a different technology, in which millimetre-wave radiation causes nerve receptors in the skin to feel heat, via dielectric heating.

In addition to its "voice" feature, which acts as a loudspeaker, the LRAD has an "alert" feature, which emits loud chirping or beeping sounds, which can be used at the top of the decibel range of the device. These sounds have been reported to cause pain and hearing damage. The use of the alert function for crowd control has been described as a "sound cannon" or sonic weapon, although this has been denied by the manufacturer. The sound can be targeted within a narrow and specific range that does not impact those operating the device or standing next to it. Civil liberties organizations are concerned about its use by police forces, and its use has been contested in law courts in the United States. One concern is that police officers are not receiving enough training in its use.

Law enforcement organizations and the manufacturer claim that LRAD systems are primarily designed for long-range communications; however, the device has an extremely high decibel capacity and has been controversially used as a less-lethal weapon for crowd control. Police usually use models that are not quite as powerful as the military-grade version; however, generating levels ranging from 137 dB to 154 dB, they are capable of causing pain, disorientation, nausea, migraines, and permanent damage.

The NYPD's LRAD use was to be challenged in US federal court in 2020. Due to potential risks and a lack of studies on the health impact of sonic weapons, the American Civil Liberties Union recommended in a fact sheet that their use in protests be suspended.

By mid-2016, most Australian police forces had acquired LRADs ( Queensland Police said that they had been using the since 2009), and concerns were raised about their use for crowd control. However, before 2020, there was no use of the LRAD in public situations; most usage had been by the various police forces for communications during natural disasters or for negotiations with hostage-takers in a siege, where it was too dangerous to approach a suspect. In June 2020, during the Black Lives Matters protests in New South Wales, NSW Police used LRADs in a different way for the first time, and it has been used at other anti-racism protests in Australia.

The device came to the attention of the wider public when it was used at the 2022 anti-vaccine mandate Canberra protests in "loud hailer" mode for voice messages to be announced to the protesters, and there was speculation among protesters regarding purported harms from its use. However, there was no evidence that it was used as a siren. In addition, some reports appeared to confuse the LRAD with other crowd control devices, such as the Active Denial System; one activist claimed that " supersonic weapons" had been used.

On June 26, 2015, Czech Special Forces Police may have deployed an LRAD 500X during anti-immigration and anti-Islam protests in Brno, the second largest city in the Czech Republic.

Police in Prague used a vehicle-mounted LRAD on November 17, 2020, to repeatedly alert protesters on Wenceslas Square to follow COVID restrictions and wear masks. On that day, police supervised several rallies, meetings and demonstrations. Thousands of participants gathered at the largest protests in the Old Town Square. The police and a Prague City Hall representative used an LRAD to repeatedly call upon demonstrators to follow COVID public safety protocols and to comply with security measures.

Prague police officers utilized a vehicle-mounted LRAD to issue more than 500 warnings to revelers not to set off pyrotechnics during downtown December 31, 2021 - January 1, 2022 New Year's Eve celebrations.

Bad Homburg's fire brigade and city police used an LRAD 100X system more than 60 times in the first half of 2020 for delivering COVID-19 information.

Hellenic Police acquired two LRAD systems to be used at the Evros border. These were tested after the March 2020 migrant crisis at the border, triggered by the Turkish government. They are to be used as a deterrent against illegal border entry, as a notification system, as well as to handle aggressive actions against the Hellenic Armed Forces.

Japan's Coast Guard used Long Range Acoustic Devices and other methods to expel a North Korean fishing flotilla from its waters in September 2017.

In February 2009, the Japanese whaling fleet operating in Antarctic waters near Australia installed LRADs on their vessels. The device was used against activists of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society. The Japanese fleet later escalated the use of LRAD, deploying it against a Sea Shepherd helicopter carrying a camera crew. Sea Shepherd noted that they had an LRAD of their own, but as of early 2010, had not put it into use other than to play a recording of " Ride of the Valkyries" in the manner of attacking U.S. Army helicopters depicted in the 1979 film Apocalypse Now.

During the dispersion of New Zealand's parliament protest in March 2022, LRAD were used by New Zealand police against the protesters. A document released under the Official Information Act (OIA), revealed two long range acoustic devices (LRADs) were deployed at the Parliament protest on March 2.

Municipal police in Gdańsk, Poznań, Kołobrzeg and other cities in Poland are using LRAD systems to deliver COVID-19 notifications.

Local police in Leganés, Spain are using a vehicle-mounted LRAD to deliver alerts and notifications to residents during the country-wide COVID-19 lockdown. According to Citizen Security, Communication and local government spokesman, Oscar Oliveira, "Because the acoustic device can be heard inside of houses, we can inform older residents with mobility issues that all municipal resources are available through the Citizen Attention Service by calling 010."

It was confirmed by the Ministry of Defence on May 11, 2012, that an LRAD would be deployed in London during the 2012 Summer Olympic Games. It was spotted fixed to a landing craft on the River Thames.

An LRAD was present, but not used, during protests of the 2004 Republican National Convention in New York City.[citation needed ]

LRADs were used by the Pittsburgh PD during protests at the G20 Summit in September 2009. This was the first time the LRAD was used during a protest in the U.S.

LRAD was reportedly used by the Oakland Police Department during the clearance of the Occupy Oakland encampment on the morning of 25 October 2011.

LRAD was present and used when the New York City Police department raided and destroyed the Occupy Wall Street encampment from Zuccotti Park to disrupt and disperse the crowd before arresting or ejecting them on the morning of 15 November 2011.

The Salisbury, MD Police Department acquired an LRAD in October 2013 with proceeds from their speed cameras.

St. Louis County police used LRAD during protests surrounding the police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri.

On December 5, 2014, the NYPD utilized an LRAD, notifying approximately 100 protestors to disperse, during the protest of the police killing of Eric Garner in Midtown Manhattan.

Myrtle Beach, South Carolina police obtained two LRAD systems through a federal grant in March 2015. Myrtle Beach police captain Marty Brown told the Myrtle Beach city council that "his department is getting the LRADs to enhance their communication capabilities be it with large crowds or for emergency announcements such as evacuation orders."

The NYPD used a Long Range Acoustic Device during the Baltimore solidarity rally in Union Square on April 29, 2015. An NYPD pickup truck equipped with an LRAD parked near protesters and broadcast a looped warning message about staying off the streets and not blocking the sidewalks.

The New Jersey State Police used an armored-vehicle-mounted LRAD to communicate with crowds denied entry to a June 7, 2015 concert after they began throwing bottles and tried to rush the gates outside MetLife Stadium.

The Greensboro, NC Police Department (GPD) purchased an LRAD 300X and demonstrated it for reporters in November 2015. Jonathan Franks, a GPD captain, said that it could be used for alerts for everything from riots to missing children to weather disasters, and that it could save lives in some cases.

Police in San Diego, CA used an LRAD on May 27, 2016, to order anti-Trump protesters to disperse.

Police from several agencies, including North Dakota state troopers, the National Guard, and other law enforcement agencies from surrounding counties and states deployed two LRADs to clear a protest camp and blockades along Highway 1806. "Long Range Acoustic Devices, which emit an ear-splitting whine, were used intermittently throughout the day" one reporter wrote. An LRAD was present again on 11/20/2016 at the bridge just north of the protesters camp on highway 1806.[citation needed ]

The Washington D.C. Metropolitan Police Department used a LRAD at the January 21, 2017 Women's March.

On February 17, 2017, the Princess Anne Police Department deployed its LRAD system at the request of the Maryland State Police to disperse an unruly concert crowd on the campus of the University of Maryland Eastern Shore.

The Mendocino County (California) Board of Supervisors approved the purchase of a Long Range Acoustic Device for the Mendocino County Sheriff's Office on April 18, 2017. Sheriff Tom Allman said the device would aid in searches for missing persons, most often hunters and mushroom pickers, which cost the county tens of thousands of dollars. He said the LRAD might have made the intense 2011 manhunt for Aaron Bassler a little easier, and that it could be used to warn of a tsunami. MCSO found LRAD useful out of a low-flying plane, and it could help in a barricaded-person situation to communicate from the outside of the building.

The Phoenix, AZ city council approved the purchase of two LRAD 500X systems in November 2018 "to give clear and concise messages to groups of people whenever we find it necessary".

Rochester NY police used verbal warnings and an LRAD to help disperse disorderly crowds during the August 2019 Puerto Rican Festival.

During the same period, the LRAD was used at a protest in front of the Arkansas State Capitol.

The Portland Police Bureau used a vehicle-mounted LRAD during the protests about the killing of George Floyd on June 4, 2020, and on other occasions during the protests.

The Seattle Police Department purchased an LRAD in response to claims that it did not adequately communicate orders to demonstrators during the summer 2020 protests. SPD's use of its LRAD was alleged to have caused ear damage to a peaceful demonstrator, although an internal SPD review deemed the allegations to be unsustained.

A BearCat-mounted LRAD was used to emit voice messages and high-pitched sirens in Kenosha, WI on August 24, 2020, in front of the Kenosha County Courthouse to disperse crowds assembled in Civic Center Park as part of the Jacob Blake protests.

Rochester, NY police used a Long Range Acoustic Device to make announcements to protesters that they were unlawfully in the roadway and obstructing traffic on September 12, 2020. The device was also used at the September 16, 2020 protest in front of Rochester city hall.

In September 2020, it was revealed that federal officials had explored the use of the device and the Active Denial System ("heat ray") to disperse civilians protesting outside the White House in June of that year, but had been advised that the National Guard was not currently in possession of either device.

Protesters at the June 1, 2020 Washington, D.C. George Floyd protests said police gave little or no warning before employing aggressive tactics against them. A 2015 settlement requires federal police to give large crowds several loud dispersal orders before deploying chemical irritants and other dispersion tools. Using an LRAD to issue loud protest dispersal orders would have complied with the 2015 settlement requirement.

The Cuyahoga County Sheriff's Department purchased Long Range Acoustic Devices to improve the department's ability to issue dispersal orders clearly over long distances. The purchases resulted from the department's after-action report of the May 30, 2020 riot in downtown Cleveland.

After receiving feedback from protesters who said commands from on-scene officers were not clear or loud enough, the Seattle, WA mayor's office recommended purchasing an LRAD.

On April 12, 2021, the Brooklyn Center, MN Police Department deployed a vehicle mounted LRAD outside of its headquarters to announce curfew violations and dispersal orders to a large crowd protesting the death of Daunte Wright.

On July 3, 2021, Massachusetts State Police utilized an LRAD to secure a group[clarification needed ] of 11 suspects involved in the Sovereign Citizen movement. The group identified themselves as part of the "Rise of the Moors" movement, or "Moorish Americans". The self styled militia group was traveling between Rhode Island and Maine when an MSP trooper came across their convoy refueling. The group had multiple firearms in their possession, and admitted to not having proper carrying requirements. Several fled into the surrounding forest, at which point the LRAD was deployed. The group was taken into custody without further incident.

The Oklahoma County, OK Sheriff's Office Tactical Team used a vehicle-mounted LRAD on November 22, 2021, to serve a search warrant on a residence suspected of being used for drug trafficking.

The Charlotte-Mecklenburg, NC Police Department Crisis Intervention Team and SWAT negotiators used a long-range acoustic device to talk a man down from an energized electrical tower.

Genasys has supplied its NEWS mass notification service in Australia since 2013, when it partnered with Nokia to deliver emergency notifications via SMS, following the disastrous consequences of the Black Saturday bushfires in 2009.

Menlo Park and Atherton, CA police and fire officials attended a 'sound off' between a siren installation and an LRAD 360XT mobile voice mass notification system in April 2018. "The side by side test was very helpful and everyone agreed that the LRAD system completely outperformed the older siren system," said Fire District Emergency Manager Ryan Zollicoffer. "Not only because of the voice capability, but the modular-mobility benefit is something that appeals to first responders because it can be used for a variety of public safety purposes and better moved around if that's needed or desired."

The Menlo Park Fire District demonstrated its Long Range Acoustic Device (LRAD) community notification system on April 18, 2019. The fire district also showed how the ShakeAlert system could eventually be tied together with its LRAD to provide area wide audible alerts for earthquake, flood, fire and other emergencies. "ShakeAlert will notify and protect our Station firefighters, but we also believe coupled with the LRAD public address system, it can help to bridge the 'notification gap' as another important public safety tool and option for community early warning messaging for earthquakes as well as for fire and flooding information and evacuation signaling," said Fire Chief Harold Schapelhouman.

The City of Laguna Beach, CA installed LRAD speaker sirens in 2018. The systems alert the downtown and Main Beach areas during an emergency where the public needs to take immediate action.

In June 2019, Mill Valley, CA became the first city in the Bay Area to replace its sirens with LRAD community notification systems. The combined siren loudspeakers receive emergency messages via satellite and have backup batteries if the power fails.

The Mill Valley Fire Department began testing its city's new LRAD installations on June 27, 2019. LRAD systems project both siren and voice recordings to alert and inform community members during large-scale disasters. The Long Range Acoustic Devices replaced siren-only systems in five Mill Valley, CA locations. "We believe that the purchase and installation of LRAD goes a long way to improve the resiliency and redundancy of our communication systems," Mill Valley Fire Chief Tom Welch said. "LRAD systems are highly effective in communicating warnings, instructions, and notifications throughout incident sites and over vast areas during life-threatening events."

The City of Newport Beach plans to spend $200,000 to replace three rusty tsunami warning sirens on the Balboa Peninsula with LRAD siren/public address systems. The LRAD systems are expected to be installed by the end of 2019.

In October 2020, Laguna Beach, CA tested its expanded outdoor warning system of 13 Long Range Acoustic Devices mounted on buildings throughout the city. The solar-powered devices broadcast recorded evacuation messages in case cell service is disabled during a disaster.

Seven new LRAD emergency siren systems are scheduled for installation in southern Marin County in 2022.

The Berkeley, CA city council approved the installation of a Genasys outdoor warning system to alert residents of fires, earthquakes, tsunamis and other disasters. The system is capable of running on solar-powered battery backup and being controlled remotely via satellite.

On November 5, 2005, the luxury cruise ship Seabourn Spirit employed an LRAD to repel pirates who attacked the vessel with rocket-propelled grenades about 115 km off the coast of Somalia. The effectiveness of this device during the attack is not completely clear, but the pirates did not succeed in boarding the vessel and eventually fled.

The Liberian-flagged vessel MV Biscaglia was attacked on November 28, 2008. The security detachment aboard Biscaglia was reported to have used an LRAD device in an effort to repel attackers armed with assault rifles and rocket-propelled grenades. Following a one-sided shootout, the ship was seized and the unarmed security contractors abandoned ship leaving the ship and crew to the pirates. The incident caused the usefulness of LRADs to be called into question by Lloyd's List.

In January 2011, the Spirit of Adventure, a cruise ship sailing through the Indian Ocean, deployed an LRAD system as part of its defensive measures when being pursued by pirates.

S/Y Hideaway used an LRAD in 2016 to deter suspected pirates in the Gulf of Aden.

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A long-range acoustic device ( LRAD) is an acoustic hailing device (AHD), sound cannon and sonic weapon developed by Genasys. It has been used as a method of crowd control, which has caused permanent hearing damage, having an extremely high decibel capacity (up to 160 dB measured at one meter from the device).

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Yesterday I spent the day not doing much, I stressed about doing something but never actually got to do anything.

I started thinking about making something more personal, I want to work using my life, my experiences.

I think this year I need to take out everything I have in my brain, everything that covers my head, myself.

I want to start by putting out the relationship I have/had with my father, I think it’s important for me to take it out, just like I take out my thoughts writing I need to do the same with my practice.

I need to work on this piece, start to think it through.

Some ideas that I had for this series:

-       Father / Mother / Brother / me

-       Drawings / sound / sculpture.

The first idea I had on how to develop it was through drawings and sounds designed for that person.

I also thought about making a sculpture showing my father.

-       Another aspect could be the psychologists, how annoying they’ve been, show the hypocrisy of their work and how they’ve dealt with me.

All of this is very basic so far, I need to develop it and do some more research about similar thematic.

I also need to keep studying the sound aspect of my practice.

I need to go to galleries again, they can help with the technical aspect and see what’s the new “keyword”, just out of curiosity.

It’s interesting seeing how I almost forgot about the economical / commercial aspect of art, I don’t care if my works are being displayed anymore. If galleries are not showing my work I can find another way, I can create my space.

This is the journey to discover myself, what I am, who I am.

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Some of the feedback I got from the sound piece itself was that I might just use it by itself, I just need to set up the presentation.
I think the sound could really work by itself without the need of any visual aspect - I need the small room because the sound vibrates inside the chest and you can feel the pressure.

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I finally finished casting all of the body parts that I needed. Monday I will assemble the legs and arms with he metal base / bust / skeleton.
I also need to make the structure for the neck, head and face.

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I started doing research about Catteland, an Italian artist that doesn't want to fit the mould of the "Italian artist".
Reading about him and his life I realised how being an artist is just like another job. I understood how I can do art about myself and my life, as Cattelan says "nothing is more real that reality". By simply showing reality he puts questions that no one seems to worry about until they see it as a piece.

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At the crit I had yesterday I noticed how empty my whole project is, everything seems very random.

While talking with the tutors and the MA student they told me about the effects of sound (different frequencies) on the brain.

Things I noted:

-       String theory

-       Steinhardt theory

-       Spiritual aspect
-      being aware of it

-       Look back on why I think it looks cool

-       The wall of sound

-       Military application

-       See what I think
-      what am I really interested in

We also talked about how I should start thinking more about my point of view and ideas – I’m taking the things I’m studying for granted without questioning them.

Today I finally finished casting all of my limbs for the sculpture, at this point I want to finish it just so I can move on with other projects.

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I went to the Csm Open studio for BA Fine art 2/3 year.
Talking to one of the performers I learned that he too works with sound and with multiple similarities. While talking with him I had the idea of doing a deeper research into the practical use of sound instead of just for music and emotions.
I discovered the "IRAD Sound Cannon", which is a tool used by the police to disperse crowds shooting a very loud and disturbing noise / sound.

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The book talks about a new way of perceiving sound, from the way we listen to it, how we approach it, and even how to incorporate it in our every-day design.
It talks about how we need to engineer sound now, take account of the fact that there's an overload of sounds and noise.

I found interesting how he takes in consideration every sound as some sort of melody / music.

Also talks about how sound can't be recorded like a map accessible to everyone (like a geographical map). To be correct it has to be complete and incredibly precise, extremely difficult to read - not having a reference you have to translate something still and without sound into something alive that you can hear.

How sound is tied to time and space while figurative art is bound only by the eyesight.

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Reading this book I understood how art is just another job, same rules can be applied.

This is the perfect way to go against the current art market since he leaves nothing to sell at the end, in his older works he even closed the entire gallery and didn't produce a single piece of work.
He searched for ways to deceive the art world and industry, tested the limits.

This book showed me how you can turn art from external to internal.
Make it your own instead of following the trends.
SHOW REALITY - THE PRESENT.

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Yesterday I stayed in the library until late, after a couple of hours there I remembered an Italian artist called Maurizio Cattelan. I remember liking some of his work and how “memorable” they were.

I don’t know why but I got attracted by his work, so I started doing research about him and I found some good books. Reading about his life I realised what I must do, how I need to approach art. I’m tired of being under the art, I need to keep it in control.

I realised that I had to express what I lived and not how I feel, show reality, and raise questions, showing emotions is more of a statement, you’re telling the viewer “This is the emotion I want to express” and that’s it.

I want to talk about my past, my parents, my brother, use my family.

Show how I got raised and the hypocrisy of my father as a ruling figure, I still love my dad but the situations that I lived make me question his authority and figure as a person.

I realised I was trying to run away from myself by doing art not related to me but to what I was supposed to feel, I was getting ruled by what I was doing and not the opposite, I wasn’t in control.

I considered art as something external and not something internal.

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I lost track of my studies, I forgot my old research and I’m moving more and more towards sound itself, how it interacts with your feelings and how it can cover your thoughts.

How do we use sound?

How do we react to it?

After the breakup I couldn’t think straight, thinking itself hurt, so I used loud sounds to make the pain stop. I turned off my brain using something as loud as my mind (How loud is my mind?).

I feel like I’m getting stuck again, I haven’t produced a single piece of work outside of the sound sculpture.

I wonder if I should start different projects on the side.

It’s a dumb question, obviously I need to do something else too. I’m working on an album called “Covet Your Thoughts”, it’s going to be a collection of pieces that you can use to shut off your brain, something that you should listen very carefully.

I was thinking about the term I keep using of “long exposure” of sound, I might have to explore it a bit further, connect it with pictures and film.

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How everyday sounds can trigger strong emotions: ASMR, misophonia and the feeling of wellbeing

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/bies.202000099

The brain plays an important role in our hearing

https://www.hear-it.org/The-brain-plays-an-important-role-in-our-hearing

Resonance Frequency Measurement

https://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/apr99/923033670.Eg.r.html

Inaudible High-Frequency Sounds Affect Brain Activity: Hypersonic Effect
https://journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10.1152/jn.2000.83.6.3548

Anatomy, Autonomic Nervous System
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK539845/

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Inaudible High-Frequency Sounds Affect Brain Activity: Hypersonic Effect | Journal of Neurophysiology

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Although it is generally accepted that humans cannot perceive sounds in the frequency range above 20 kHz, the question of whether the existence of such “inaudible” high-frequency components may affect the acoustic perception of audible sounds remains unanswered. In this study, we used noninvasive ph…

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I started acting for a student film and I find the different timings / tempos really interesting.
While reading an article about Shezad Dawood, a fine artists moving from painting and sculpture to film making, he was interested in this shift of time as well, in his case even more since he's doing a series of of 10 documentaries and it's taking him different years to do so.

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In the last gathering we created drums using random objects in the room.
I'm liking the new results that the group is making, linking each other's sounds more and more, obviously it depends by who is playing and how committed they are.

I want to focus on the free improvisation method without conductor a bit more - learn how to listen and create at the same time - instead of following orders from someone else - although some of the directed plays were very interesting.

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I went to a club in London and I was fascinated by the way the loud music turns your brain almost completely, transforming you and everyone around you in a group of mindless things - all moving together as one - following the same movements.

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Sculpted the face in two different materials.
I used some of the leftover herculite to make a version of the face. The end-result wasn't how I wanted it so I just did a version using very wet clay - I left some clay in a bucked filled with water for around 30 minutes.

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I'm casting all the different parts of my body for the sculpture, the only problem I'm having is that the workshop where to do it is always fully booked.
So I might just take some of the material I use to cast and bring it home so I can do it on my own.

I find interesting seeing all of the imperfections of the cast.

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I'm finding doing things for myself incredibly hard. I don't see myself as a real "thing", but as an entity, something abstract and vague, there is no certainty in who I am and why I do things.
Since I broke up with my ex I realised how out of myself I was, not doing things because I decided to but because I thought they were right or wrong on someone else's judgement.

Knowing that this was due to a lack of ownership in what I did, moving responsibilities away from me.
Using my father too much as a universal reference, I stoped thinking for myself.
As well as my ex, she was influencing my ways of thinking ad acting hugely, I stopped feeling like I was myself around her, I couldn't act natural and I didn't know why.

I stopped contacting my parents and I'm looking to stay by myself for a while, I need to focus on myself before doing anything else.
For some reason I still feel bound to my ex, or maybe I just need to process the breakup still.

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Today while taking the underground to go to uni I kind of connected the dots for my research and project.

About Mindlessness and how sound is creating that state in people.
I question what we are when our ming is on an alt/stop, what happens when we are in this "Mindless" state.

I wrote:
"Do we become something purely material?"
"In a world that constantly produces sounds how do we think?"
"How does sound interact with our brains?"
- "Does it interact in the same way for everyone?"

I need to do some more research about this "physical" aspect of sound and how it influences us directly and indirectly.

I also connected the sound to film (might be because of the LCC film) and what happened between the shift from mute movies to sound movies.

- Sounds that create emotions
- Frequencies  -  study the frequencies of emotions and objects

- The space that we live in throws too many frequencies at us at the same time (too many different emotions at the same time)
- we don't know how to feel anymore
- we don't feel ourself anymore - we don't hear ourself.

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I'm acting in a student film from LCC, It's interesting seeing the different tempos film have. They ave to do everything in a schedule, they have to follow it and adjust everything to it, also it's weird because it almost looks like they're improvising all the time. The director has a general idea and then the actors try and replicate what the script says being as close as possible to the director vision.
Something I understood of me is that I can't fake happiness, it's something so strong that I find it difficult to create artificially, unless I was drunk maybe.

I also saw how they choose the people for the film, I got casted in the LCC canteen quite randomly.
But there's also websites for it.

Besides that I'm finding myself in a weird situation, I don't really know what I'm supposed to do but today I didn't stop doing stuff for the whole day. I had to cast the left arm for the sculpture, I had to do some more of the LCC film, and I had to book a few things.

I need to cast my legs in my garden, it will be a lot quicker, since I don't have enough time to go and do it in the Chelsea Casting Workshop.

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Trying to do some more with sound and starting the sound part for my sculpture.

I'm finding it difficult to work on the sound aspect recently.
I need to be in the right place to do it, or else I just can't even continue the piece.

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Yesterday I took a day to stay home and not think about anything, I just stayed in bed all day watching videos.

I don’t think it was a good idea.

I started the day wanting to go and fix my bike, but when the guy told me it couldn’t get fixed I just went home and cancelled all of my plans for the day, one after the other, starting from going to galleries, then going to the park and exercise, then going to the cinema.

I ended up staying in bed all day.

I’m really trying not to feel bad about it but I’m struggling, especially after seeing my ex for a moment, she acted like nothing ever happened and said “It’s nice to see your face” while stroking my shoulder.

My head is confused, I have no idea what I’m supposed to do or how to do it, and this evening there’s the Open Improv Studio that I must attend.

I feel like I’m in a bathtub and I’m sinking deeper into it, I feel the pressure on my chest increase every day.

I thought I had it under control after having a talk with the tutor but apparently I’m even more confused now, I don’t know if I’m supposed to listen to her suggestions or not, I don’t remember what I was supposed to do.

-       Organise my research under one thing

-       Schedule things

I feel lonely, but not alone, which is even worse because I know that there’s people I could contact but I’m not doing it.

I want to feel by myself, in my head doing my things, but instead it feels like everything I’m doing is to impress someone else.

How do I get back into my head?

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I had a tutor talk and I managed to talk about my practice with someone, not only about my practice but also about my personal thoughts that I’m having recently.

I feel a bit better about what to do and how to do it.

I need to take a break and reorganise what I have instead of adding new things.

I also saw Maya and she looked ok, I’m glad she’s not taking it too bad.

I need to fix my bike and go to the park to exercise. I also need a job for some money since I’m broke.

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I’m interested in the many ways humans have invented so that they can stop thinking.

How can someone avoid a problem.

Everything seems pointed towards the disappearance of responsibility/ moving responsibility somewhere else.

Are we getting lazier as a species?

The human is getting more used to commodities, we don’t want to struggle anymore, instead we look for a shortcut, we don’t want to suffer, we avoid pain and look at it like it’s some sort of medical thing.

[ The Palliative Society: Pain Today ]

Again, I go back to older studies,   why?

Did I discover what I’m interested in? – Humanity, trying to understand it.

I want to understand the different ways of behaving humans have on different things. Is this because I want to discover myself as well?

Why do people want to stop thinking?

They want to ignore the problem and go on, without caring about consequences.

Do we only care about comfort?

Mi piacerebbe capire cosa succede nella mia testa, sono confuso e non capisco come mai.

Might be because of the breakup but I’m not sure.

Tutto è un miscuglio nel mio cervello – ho delle idee ma non riesco a svilupparle.

What do I have:

-       Self-awareness

-       Adam & Eve

-       Elimination of pain from modern culture

-       Elimination of thought

Do we eliminate thought to control it? – like politicians – we want our people not to think so they’re easier to control.

-       New way of describing society – our language is too outdated – we need a new way of expression

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In her work, Berlin-based artist Christine Sun Kim, whose first language is American Sign Language (ASL), approaches the concept of sound via deconstructive exercises, experiments, and observations through drawing, painting, and performance.

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The enchanting music of sign language | Christine Sun Kim

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Exploring The Sound Of Silence With Christine Sun Kim | HUMAN

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I still feel quite out of it, I can’t focus on what I want to do. I feel like I constantly have something to do but I don’t know what.

The project that I’m working on feels superficial and completely aesthetic, no concept behind it, just feelings.

I’m still thinking about working with the feelings that I have, I really want to turn them into a sound piece, maybe a couple of hours long.

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I started looking at more contemporary artists instead of just old “classics” like Giacometti and John Cage.

By contacting an artist that works with sound and sculpture too I had the opportunity to receive some feedback from him and I started asking myself how I should continue the sound projects. I’m thinking of creating some form of material piece to accompany the sound piece itself, trying to create a gravitational pull towards the whole piece by using something material in contrast with the immateriality of sound.

By reading the book about Giacometti’s practice I was struck by a part where he says: “but should we do what we know how to do or what we don’t know how to do??” – and he finishes by saying “a rhetorical question”.

So how do I do what I don’t know how to do?

I think the answer is that I need to focus more on the practical skill, the technical skill, learn how to create more sounds and how to work with them, learn how to sculpt better and how to create lifelike figures.

I’m still a bit confused by what to do and how to do it.

I have some sort of love and hate relationship with the sculpture that I’m doing, I hate it because it seems too simple to make, I already have a plan and I know how the project will develop (sort of), but at the same time I like it aesthetically, it will also allow me to try different new methods like metal welding and casting with plaster, even although it feels like cheating in some sort of way.

By watching a Christine Sun Kim talk I realised that sound doesn’t have to be the only way of “showing” something, by doing that you’re limiting your art and the audience you have, deaf people aren’t going to relate to it, but also sound is something even more difficult to read as a whole, people’s attention-span has lowered to a couple of seconds.

I wonder if I can make a sound piece that express everything immediately without “the use of time”.

What can I connect with sound?

Sound is music, sound is gesture, music is gesture.

What else can I find that relates and connects to it.

Something visual, something alive?

What’s alive?

-       Sound

-       Music

-       Movement

-       …

-       Are text / words alive?

What is sound?

What is silence?

What comes after identity?

Everyone is questioning themselves, but after someone realises who he/she is what happens?

Expand research out of art – see other worlds – other ways of thinking

Can sound connect with space and architecture? How?

Is sound influenced by culture? By language?

“Get lost to find your way”

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I also discovered MIMEO, another improvisation group that was more focussed on electronic sounds.

It's an experimental electroacoustic free improvisation group.

the founder of the group is called Keith Rowe, considered to be the founder of EAI (Electroacustic improvisation).

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I'm gathering information for the workshop we will have tomorrow at OIS.
I discovered the group called AMM, an improvisation group that started just like OIS as a weekend project at the Royal College of Arts (1965).
Their direction was more towards "free jazz", without a director everyone is free to play how they prefer keeping a balance in the whole.
I want to try this type of method tomorrow and see how it goes.

I'm now interested in a comment given at the time by critiques to AMM performances "Their sound was too different for the time (1966)".
What do we consider modern sound - acceptable sound - and what is experimental?
How do we create a "too different for our time" sound?

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I'm in a weird time, I don't know what to do, I just broke up with my girlfriend and I have no control over my emotions, I can change from happy to sad in a matter of seconds and the only thing I want to do is constantly play loud music in my ears so I can't think about her.
One of my tutors told me I might have to take a brake or to use this feelings, I want to use this, I was thinking of turning it into a sound piece, loud and full of deep sounds.

Today we had the research workshop as well, it made me think a lot about what I'm doing and I realised I'm being very superficial again, I focus only on the basic things and I don't scratch the surface of my concepts, I should research more artists that work using my practice instead of focussing only on the main ones like John Cage and Giacometti.
Especially contemporary artists, more recent and possibly still alive.

I should also focus more about artists talks and interviews, read their thoughts instead of their lives.
Cross reference the informations that I have.

Go deeper and wider.

I have to go to galleries again, I stopped for some reason, I think is because of where I live and how much it costs to use the underground every time.

Use the Online Library more - reading list

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Giovanni Strazza

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Giuseppe Sanmartino's sculpture in Naples, one of the most iconic sculptures in Italy, after Michelangelo's ones.

I'm fascinated by the way he hides and accentuates the body giving it a bigger gravity, it attracts the eyes and gives weight to the whole sculpture.

Shows how real the sculpture is, how fragile and stable it is at the same time.

I was thinking of utilising the same method for my sculpture, put a piece of thin cloth on top of it so that it hides the mechanical part and accentuates the organic one, the shapes of the body instead of the metallic frame.

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I'm working on a sculptural piece, unifying sound and sculpture into one piece.

An "installation" that shows a generation of people stuck in a time where you can't move.

The title refers to the 3 positions in a court, where one Judges the other two (the Judge), one is being judged by both but is being protected (the Victim), and one is being judged by everyone but he judges himself (the Guilty), he's guilty of judgement, like everyone else, but he's being accused for it.
While the Judge can judge without being judged, he observes everyone and makes decisions.
The Victim is stuck, he can't move because he's been hurt by the "guilty", that can be himself or someone else.

it's so easy to take the part of the Judge nowadays, but we're all Victims and Guilty.

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I started reading a book about Peter Fischli & David Weiss and how they came up with ideas and projects to work on, for them everything was art, you just had to detach yourself from the modern concept of "world", get bored so you could see your surroundings with a different eye.

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Medardo Rosso was a sculptor during the same period of Leonardo da Vinci.
Seems incredible how contemporary his sculptures are especially now that everyone seems dealing with the theme of "Identity".
Almost like an expansion of Michelangelo's "Prisoners or Slaves", a continuation and a development of them.
Also an anticipation to Giacometti's sculptures in thematics and struggle - the fragility of the human.

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'Lowlands' - Susan Philipsz Turner Art Prize Winner 2010

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Florian Hecker - Chimerization (excerpt)

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Florian Hecker - Chimerization (excerpt)

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Florian Hecker - Chimerization (excerpt)

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https://www.moussemagazine.it/magazine/cudelice-brazelton-iv-leonie-radine-2021/

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The Picker: Cudelice Brazelton IV - Mousse Magazine and Publishing

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The Picker (2020), Undergird (2019), Helix (2020), Barb (2021)-Cudelice Brazelton IV's titles already suggest that his works get under one's skin. His

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https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/11q_uLe8CmgMLminRvbQgGOINOyEWAh88?usp=share_link

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I feel like dividing this project into "Outcomes - Experiment - Reflection - Research - Books - Galleries" doesn't make sense anymore.
Everything became a huge reflection where everything connects and blends together forming a big piece of work (Outcome).

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I want to cover my thoughts, the ideas, everything that can affect me. I want to enclose myself into a sphere of sound, cover my brain with a thick coat of sound, doesn't matter what it is as long as it expresses what I feel.
this is the time of ignorance, everyone ready to judge without knowing why, without sense nor coherence, there is no compassion and everyone ignores everyone.

you're left in a world made of single individuals.

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Me and two other students (Vans and Max) are creating a space for music improvisation, where you can be yourself and create a space that fits you. I had the idea a while ago while thinking about how I feel in the Chelsea environment, I realised that I wasn't finding myself at all and that I could create my own space.
It's going to be a place where you can express yourself without any form of judgement, if not the useful kind (if you don't follow the director's rules or you offend someone).
I want to create my own world and make it fit today's society, a place of detachment from the frenetic phase of the "outside world".
A place where you can make useful connections and networking, where you follow your real self and not the mask you have to wear everywhere else.

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At the event I met a couple of interesting people. I understood that what I have to do now is simply risk, do everything I have in mind and discover what I really wanna do.
The day after the event I had a chat with my father and I realised how messed up my situation was, I was struggling finding myself, I couldn't recognise myself in the mirror and everything I did seemed wrong. I realised that day that I wasn't being myself but simply a mix of ideas and advices that someone else gave me.
My father being the biggest influence in my life it was (and still is) an obstacle for my practice, everything I did was blocked by the wall of judgement my father put up on me, I couldn't have ideas to develop a concept, everything was stuck.
I simply told my father "allow me to make mistakes" and he understood, like he made mistakes in his life I can make my own, I cannot learn from perfection but I can learn from mistakes.

I find it incredibly stupid how this modern society (in schools and in the family) they tell you to learn from your mistakes but as soon as you try and make a mistake you get punished and blocked.
The consequences of your mistakes are amplified by social media.

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The research I did moved from musics and images to the life of some artists, like Giacometti ad John Cage. I was interested in how they managed to continue doing what they were doing.
I got inspired by their motivation and approach on things.

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In the same space and place I saw the artist and rapper Pink Siifu perform, I was extremely interested in the sound mixing and the bases, incredibly intricate.
I learned afterwards that the bases were produced by Conquest Tony, another artist and rapper (the one singing in the video).
He also helped Cudelice on the sound design project

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Abrade

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I was puzzled by this exhibition, something that almost hides itself, that blends in with the walls, But at the same time sends a message.
I was fascinated my the piece named "Abrade", a piece of sound design and sculpture, exactly the two things I'm working with right now, I find it interesting how I can find similarities with my work in such a peculiar combination of medias.

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David Zink Yi

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"human fragility" and "shell" comes to mind as soon as I look at a skull.
It makes me realise that I don't relate to what I'm made with, but maybe I do relate with who I am, it's not a material/physical relation but a mental and feeling based one.
I'm not my brain, I'm something else in between my physical body and my thoughts.

The skull is upside down to show it as an object, not a person.

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Liu Jianhua

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This show shows the use of clay in contemporary art.
The thing that struck me the most is how clay is often associated with the human body, which makes me go back to my original thought of Adam & Eve (the creation of man from clay).
Another thing is the thematics I see most commonly: Identity, imminent doom (global warming - environmental pollution).

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I though about the effect of judgement on people, how it makes them still, not able to do anything out of the "ordinary".
Everything has to fit to a certain mould so that you can live your life without pain.

But isn't living without pain, this elimination of pain something inhuman?

You become an object unable to do anything because too sensible/sensitive.
You feel heavy under the weight of people looking at you and judging you.

you die without dying.

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I was surprised by the type of life he had and how determined he was.
I think I need some sort of life guidance now, I'm completely lost and I still don't know who I am/ what I am.
I'm also interested in the way he got influenced by oriental and eastern culture with his practice, also he shows how you can practice more than one language, he worked with sound, music, performance and figurative art.
I'm aware although that I need to focus on a language.

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I also realised that the feeling changes depending on which part of the body is moving around.

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I realised that the most relatable and easy to feel figure is our own body, so I did a music score using a line that moves around our body, it goes fast or slow, it's close or far from the skin, it's all visual and everyone can have his own interpretation of it.