https://padlet.com/ica2anonymous/y0u10h8zzg2euwlh collage and sampling in audio and vision en-us 2023-04-14 10:42:04 UTC 2023-04-19 12:33:55 UTC hello@padlet.com ica2anonymous https://padlet.com/ica2anonymous/y0u10h8zzg2euwlh/wish/2554470817 Dhanveer Singh Brar's 2020 essay explores black diaspora culture in Britain through the multidisciplinary art and music of Dean Blunt. In particular, Singh Brar's analysis of Blunt's musical projects Babyfather and Hype Williams allowed me to identify and understand a direct correlation between the structures of both musical and fine art practices and the idea of the multi-media 'collage'.]]> 2023-04-14 12:15:47 UTC https://padlet.com/ica2anonymous/y0u10h8zzg2euwlh/wish/2554470817 ica2anonymous https://padlet.com/ica2anonymous/y0u10h8zzg2euwlh/wish/2554480721 "In Hype Williams, the signature noise of multiple mediums can be heard ... mostly generated by analogue and digital media noise. Tracks are undercut by hiss, while tape warbles create distinctive pitch bends...many of their samples sound as if they have been ripped from YouTube videos: the audio artefacts and effects that arise with lossy digital compression...the saturation of their music with noise makes it difficult to discern what sounds are coming from where - what is live and what is sampled."]]> 2023-04-14 12:27:07 UTC https://padlet.com/ica2anonymous/y0u10h8zzg2euwlh/wish/2554480721 ica2anonymous https://padlet.com/ica2anonymous/y0u10h8zzg2euwlh/wish/2554486302 Similar to approaches of the Dada artist movement, pop artists of the 1950s and 60s continued to reject traditional ideas of what art should be, and thus employed the use of reappropriating and recontextualising imagery from pop culture to convey their attitudes toward politics and society of the time. ]]> 2023-04-14 12:33:31 UTC https://padlet.com/ica2anonymous/y0u10h8zzg2euwlh/wish/2554486302 ica2anonymous https://padlet.com/ica2anonymous/y0u10h8zzg2euwlh/wish/2554487372 The description of Hype William's combination of audio samples with authentic sound-making in the excerpt from Thompson creates an image that can be translated into the context of visual art. For example, the combination of found imagery with hand-rendered marks such as brushstrokes, which can be seen in the artwork of Robert Rauschenberg.]]> 2023-04-14 12:34:48 UTC https://padlet.com/ica2anonymous/y0u10h8zzg2euwlh/wish/2554487372 ica2anonymous https://padlet.com/ica2anonymous/y0u10h8zzg2euwlh/wish/2555740969 John Cage's Water Walk performance, and more specifically the arrangement-style drawings he made to support it can be seen as an example of the direct translation of sound into image. Furthermore, the diagrams allow us to visualise the layers and processes involved in making sound, in the same way that one might be able to distinguish between marks, textures and mediums in painting.]]> 2023-04-16 12:23:18 UTC https://padlet.com/ica2anonymous/y0u10h8zzg2euwlh/wish/2555740969 ica2anonymous https://padlet.com/ica2anonymous/y0u10h8zzg2euwlh/wish/2557075788 The fourth track from Hype Williams aforementioned album 'Find Out What Happens When People Stop Being Polite, and Start Gettin' Reel' (linked above) encompasses the many elements highlighted by Thompson; including sampled lyrics from Sade's 'The Sweetest Taboo' and distorted layers of analogue noise.]]> 2023-04-17 14:28:43 UTC https://padlet.com/ica2anonymous/y0u10h8zzg2euwlh/wish/2557075788 ica2anonymous https://padlet.com/ica2anonymous/y0u10h8zzg2euwlh/wish/2557093546 In both music and visual art, the act of sampling and copying from other artists is key to the artistic process. For art in addition to music, nothing exists or can be created without prior influence, whether that be conscious or unconscious. This concept is important in understanding the origin of an image and distinguishing which elements of that image are authentic, and which are not.]]> 2023-04-17 14:39:52 UTC https://padlet.com/ica2anonymous/y0u10h8zzg2euwlh/wish/2557093546 ica2anonymous https://padlet.com/ica2anonymous/y0u10h8zzg2euwlh/wish/2557110247 In this conversation panel about the 2019 exhibition in which their work is displayed, painters Alvaro Barrington and Issy Wood discuss with curators the role that influence plays on their individual practice. This allows audiences to access the art from the artists' perspective and understand the exercise of reappropriating or essentially 'sampling' the work of others.]]> 2023-04-17 14:50:52 UTC https://padlet.com/ica2anonymous/y0u10h8zzg2euwlh/wish/2557110247 ica2anonymous https://padlet.com/ica2anonymous/y0u10h8zzg2euwlh/wish/2558473476
Derived from the French verb 'coller' meaning 'to glue', collage can be understood as a technique employed both in music and the visual arts, of creating an assemblage of different forms in order to create one whole.]]> 2023-04-18 11:56:16 UTC https://padlet.com/ica2anonymous/y0u10h8zzg2euwlh/wish/2558473476 ica2anonymous https://padlet.com/ica2anonymous/y0u10h8zzg2euwlh/wish/2558476808 The linked video above gives both a visual and aural breakdown the ingenious use of sampling behind Australian band The Avalanches' highly acclaimed album 'Since I Left You'; a record made entirely of approximately 3500 found samples. The band's unique sound is testimony to the collage-style approach of cutting and placing together different clips of audio - ripped from 1970s television dialogue to 1950s Argentinian folk music. This kind of musical composition can be defined under the genre of 'sound-collage'.]]> 2023-04-18 11:59:11 UTC https://padlet.com/ica2anonymous/y0u10h8zzg2euwlh/wish/2558476808 ica2anonymous https://padlet.com/ica2anonymous/y0u10h8zzg2euwlh/wish/2559071685 Defined as "the technique of digitally encoding music or sound and reusing it as part of a composition or recording";
DJ Sameed Rezayan explores the non-musical origins of sampling, in addition to some of the more socio-political and economic related conditions which triggered the technique to be so widely employed by artists. Like many art-related forms and processes, the method of sampling is not only used for aesthetic purposes but can help to insinuate alternative meanings in a piece of music or visual art.]]> 2023-04-18 18:53:07 UTC https://padlet.com/ica2anonymous/y0u10h8zzg2euwlh/wish/2559071685 ica2anonymous https://padlet.com/ica2anonymous/y0u10h8zzg2euwlh/wish/2559117935 Whilst early techniques of collage can be traced back to as early as 200 BC in China, our contemporary understanding of 'collage' - cutting up and repasting together found text and imagery - also finds its origins in the Dada movement of the early 20th century. Largely developed in response to World War One, Dada artists such as Hannah Hoch can be seen to use images from newspaper fragments to convey resentment toward elements of capitalist society and far-right politics.]]> 2023-04-18 19:36:07 UTC https://padlet.com/ica2anonymous/y0u10h8zzg2euwlh/wish/2559117935 ica2anonymous https://padlet.com/ica2anonymous/y0u10h8zzg2euwlh/wish/2559147064 Whilst the concept of sampling was more commonly implemented by musicians and artists alike in the mid to late 20th century, it did not exist without contention. To traditionalists, for example, sampling might be easily likened to copying and thus branded as lazy or inauthentic. Hip-hop producer and pioneer DJ Shadow's 1996 album 'Endtroducing', however, exemplified the intricacies of archive digging and the assemblage of found audio legitimizing sampling - and the hip-hop genre - as an art form capable of evoking complex emotion, proportionate to that created by an oil painting or piece of classical music. ]]> 2023-04-18 20:08:49 UTC https://padlet.com/ica2anonymous/y0u10h8zzg2euwlh/wish/2559147064 ica2anonymous https://padlet.com/ica2anonymous/y0u10h8zzg2euwlh/wish/2559188678 Similar to the musical process of sampling from wider cultural artefacts in order to produce an original artistic form, many conceptual artists of the 20th century began to source 'readymade' manufactured objects which they would then manipulate in some way and present as a piece of work in fine art contexts such as the gallery. ]]> 2023-04-18 20:59:01 UTC https://padlet.com/ica2anonymous/y0u10h8zzg2euwlh/wish/2559188678 ica2anonymous https://padlet.com/ica2anonymous/y0u10h8zzg2euwlh/wish/2559253996 Another way of understanding the connection and translation between audio and visual imagery is by looking into synesthesia. Synesthesia, or more specifically chromesthesia refers to a phenomenon where in which everyday sounds can trigger seeing colours. In the TEDx talk above, composer Devonte Hynes explains his personal experience with this phenomenon and how it has influenced the way he makes and interacts with music. ]]> 2023-04-18 22:51:44 UTC https://padlet.com/ica2anonymous/y0u10h8zzg2euwlh/wish/2559253996 ica2anonymous https://padlet.com/ica2anonymous/y0u10h8zzg2euwlh/wish/2559325238 In the final chapter of the 1972 book ways of seeing, John Berger analyses and explains to readers the many reasons why images from European oil painting are reproduced and reappropriated in publicity images such as advertisements.]]> 2023-04-19 00:24:22 UTC https://padlet.com/ica2anonymous/y0u10h8zzg2euwlh/wish/2559325238 ica2anonymous https://padlet.com/ica2anonymous/y0u10h8zzg2euwlh/wish/2559330800 2023-04-19 00:28:36 UTC https://padlet.com/ica2anonymous/y0u10h8zzg2euwlh/wish/2559330800 ica2anonymous https://padlet.com/ica2anonymous/y0u10h8zzg2euwlh/wish/2559333269 Studying Fine Art for my BA, I can understand first-hand the value of 'sampling' from the work of other artists. If you were ever to visit an artist's studio it's likely that you would find printouts, magazine cuttings, and other found imagery that inspire and bares some connection to the artist's process. Pinterest is a digital tool that allows you to collect and curate imagery into themed boards in a similar way. Above, I have linked the mood board that I created during my final major project on my art foundation course; an assemblage of the work of different artists which I could take visual elements from and apply to my own practice. ]]> 2023-04-19 00:30:42 UTC https://padlet.com/ica2anonymous/y0u10h8zzg2euwlh/wish/2559333269 ica2anonymous https://padlet.com/ica2anonymous/y0u10h8zzg2euwlh/wish/2559346625 The act of copying the work of other artists is nothing new to fine art practice. As early as the renaissance period, and up until the present day, fine art students have been encouraged to draw from the sculptures of those before them in order to better understand the human anatomy. ]]> 2023-04-19 00:41:10 UTC https://padlet.com/ica2anonymous/y0u10h8zzg2euwlh/wish/2559346625 ica2anonymous https://padlet.com/ica2anonymous/y0u10h8zzg2euwlh/wish/2559948686 Royal Academy life model Dominic Blake recently delivered a talk at the University of Leeds that aimed to legitimise life modelling as a form of art in itself. By placing the life model in equal status to the artist, Blake's concept can be seen to further the idea that as fine artists, we have historically been encouraged to copy or sample the work of others in order to create original pieces of artwork.]]> 2023-04-19 09:50:23 UTC https://padlet.com/ica2anonymous/y0u10h8zzg2euwlh/wish/2559948686 ica2anonymous https://padlet.com/ica2anonymous/y0u10h8zzg2euwlh/wish/2560019231 The origins of the term 'Dada' stemmed from a move towards irrationality, nonsense, and intuition in art, amongst the rise of fascism and the horrors of World War One. Marcel Duchamp's 'Fountain' has become one of the most prominent artworks of the Dada movement for its controversial reception in the art world. The urinal, which was displayed by Duchamp in the Society of Independent Artists exhibit of 1917 perfectly encapsulates the 'anti-art' ideas of Dadaism with its indecent connotations and form as a found object - far flung from traditional definitions of Fine Art. Today, it holds legendary status for its ability to question the belief-systems surrounding art. ]]> 2023-04-19 11:05:28 UTC https://padlet.com/ica2anonymous/y0u10h8zzg2euwlh/wish/2560019231 ica2anonymous https://padlet.com/ica2anonymous/y0u10h8zzg2euwlh/wish/2560084077 The popularity of collage form was passionately continued by artists during the Pop Art Movement, such as the Institute of Contemporary Art's 'The Independent Group'. As opposed to many academic views at the time artists such as Eduardo Paolozzi and Richard Hamilton approached commercial culture of the 1950s positively; understanding it to be an important avenue into analysing society and mass culture of the mid 20th century. Above, Sir Eduardo Paolozzi can be seen to create intricate compositions by collaging together brand logos and commercial advertising imagery.]]> 2023-04-19 12:11:00 UTC https://padlet.com/ica2anonymous/y0u10h8zzg2euwlh/wish/2560084077