Portishead are a band from the UK Known for the Triphop arty cinematic sound from the 90s.
Magic Door Portishead 2008
When watching the video there is a distressing
disorder that feels other worldly, yet current. This is also produced through the delivery of vocals that are performed in a way that has you wondering. The percussion has a DIY rawness along with the continuous organ sound and the dramatic piano and distorted brass instrument. This cinematic ambiguity mystery is traditional and still present
Roy Nachum is an artist that is from Israel playing with ideas in relation to sight and blindness working in braille. Within this minimal coloured painting that appears to have a muteness and the potential to be interpreted as a sadness. With the colour there is the braille touch sensory communication and the balloon that is black. Is this playing on a perception of blindness. And then there is a crown that is not traditionally sat in a place for the eyes to see or to be seen
Looking at the image below that is slightly blurred with Braille, the muted black and white scenery with the focal point of the crown with braille on the crown. In the imagery in a space that resembles
the beach. Black and white is classic
Earth 2019 Roy Nachum
Distorted yet clear to the viewer the crown covers the eyes again there is a focus on the gold over the eyes with braille that communicates strength. To a person who does not read braille, this is a world seen yet hidden in a braille that not everyone understands unique or alone? In an endless distant world that is black and white.
An artist from West London with a background in performance and acting, his work has mark-making that is free colourful and expressive. I take this into my work in search of inspiration.I went to look at his exhibition in praise of beauty with lots of paintings all around.
In praise of beauty 2024 Adebayo Bolaji
Watching the video seeking inspiration the performance was loud in colour yet minimal striking a balance with communication through written words sound body movement, and weaving with sound. This is something I take into this stage of the project wanting to deliver clarity a fragile yet openness.
Thinking about music and rooted feelings, I was going through images that I created outside of this project, building up repetitive images of myself. I looked thinking about DNA, thinking about songs wedged into us .I was seeing DNA songs becoming a part of us. Although this first image is an old image that I have worked, the image plays on this resemblance of DNA familiarity, a knowing that is within, inherently in one's veins metaphorically melody, rhythm, repetition. Bringing something forth, reinjecting sampling, yet there are some parts that stay the same. I began exploring further. I had partly explored this before image 2 was from part 1 . IT was a repetitive self portrait slowly distorting. I began to see a barcode this is a communication sound
IN March I decided to go for an early morning walk although I was exploring sounds and other images
I was not set on what the film would be . Taking a walk to the church early in the morning as the sun was shining around 8am with no one there allowed me to take it in with out any distrubance . I knew the place was special I walked round slowly . I felt very emotional and at peace . I continued filming taking the footage away this is film at its raw form natural speed
4 Hero is an electronic breakbeat drum bass band that came out in the 90s with various collaborations with poets and singers. Their sound is experimental with clarity in its delivery.
Urhal Rucker is an artist and performance poet. When listening to dramatic tones her connection with words
and her connection with voice with the projection of her voice, tone and character thoughtfully weaving dancing with the instrumentation. The piece delivers a thoughtful, otherworldly tone. Sculpting together with the surrounding sounds she takes you on a journey that walks and bounces into unexpected spaces. She is one with the sound
Alfred Hitchcock is a film-maker working in classic black and white. hHs work plays on themes of hopelessness and is
overtly dramatic. Watching the film titled Rebecca, there is an openness, a naivety to the main characters
with a continuous suspense driven by a combination of the setting, sound and character. I take this into my work
my delivery of characters' voices, the placement of the music surrounding and the moving picture .
A film I would like to focus on is titled Rebecca .The opening of this film Noir draws you into a space. It's a feeling of what is next with a focus on the voice that travels with the scene. A feeling of another world, unknown suspense and where you are taking me, complimented by the sound, picture, lighting creates anxiety . With a mystery yet a little knowing of what the characters are going through . The minimal black and white is homely yet scary. There is something so within the human mind that is embedded with the contribution of black and white film
Rebecca 1940 Alfred Hitchock
traditional classic muted black and white yet expressive knowing yet naive
