Author Archives: Zihan Zhang

April 11th: Borders and migrations

Research resources  Biserna, Elena (2017), ‘SoundBorderscapes: lending a critical ear to the border’, antiAtlas Journal, 2. Available at: http://www.antiatlas-journal.net/pdf/02-Biserna-soundborderscapes-lending-a-critical-ear-to-the-border.pdf (Accessed 8 May 2023).  Brooks, Andrew (2020). ‘Listening beyond the border: self-representation, witnessing, and the white sonic field’. Law Text Culture, … Continue reading

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March 14th: Sonic anthropology and autoethnography

In this section about ethnography, we learned about anthropology and anto-ethnography, where it is about human study and culture writing, where ethnography is how humans colonise places and study how native people behave, their culture and especially architecture. There are … Continue reading

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Week 23: Sound Objects, Sampling and Music Concrète
 (Gareth Mitchell)

During this experimentation, I first started off by reviewing the reading materials and initially found it quite confusing. After some research and listening to sample pieces, the piece that I was most interested in was the musical concrete of Pierre … Continue reading

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Week 21 A: Review and Revision

Broadcast artwork: Last Transmissions by Melissa Dubbin and Aaron S. Davidson. “Last Transmissions (2005) by Melissa Dubbin and Aaron S. Davidson includes sign-off broadcasts from former radio stations, last addresses of public figures, and last radio contacts with planes, ships, … Continue reading

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Week 20 A: Preparation and Practice

This is the document me and my team members are working on: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-gqjca6lNOnrXgXL2jfDLosQ9jgwq5QifQ7_8yAwwJs/edit?usp=sharing We firstly listed some ideas about our theme and we moved on to deciding with the draft for the audio. In our further meeting, we have finalised … Continue reading

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19B The Theory and Practice of Creating Audio Drama 

In this section we learn about how to create indicative content of a radio drama, it is important to create a scenario and it is also what me and my team have been working on. We want to create a … Continue reading

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Week 19 A: Sonic Narrative

 In today’s section we have learned about the different elements for sonic narrative, I have taken note and summarise the elements down below:    I consider these elements are very helpful for me to understand the concept of radio, it can … Continue reading

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Week 18 A: SFX workshop

SFX: Sound effects in film and video, it can also be used to describe special effects as a whole.  Techniques that can be used are: mixing, liveness, repetition, serendipity, fugitive nature of the sound, where radio is located.  Sound effects … Continue reading

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How to write a reflection (By Cora.z)

Evaluate assessment: Every class take note on something new l have learned (or reasearch about one case study/article/artwork – maybe mentioned in class) Post note on blog and record the process (in diff media) Write about what this new knowledge … Continue reading

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My initial idea before starting the course

in element 2 we suppose to create our own compositions, i have firstly thought about the theme. Where i want the compositions to be about my mental state at the moment, i consider the artwork can only be emotional and … Continue reading

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