At this point in the project, and the course in fact, I am beginning to get a strong idea of what I would like to do post university. My research into drum ‘n’ bass has begun to expand into ‘intelligent dance music’ (I hate that term but I’ll use it for now), and my practice outside of university work is starting to fuse together concepts I have been introduced to throughout the course, new techniques I have learned and influences I have accumulated all through my own lens.
Alongside this contemporary issues in sound art project, I have been working on an EP titled ‘VOLTAGE_CTRL’, that encapsulates the ideas of human entanglement with technology that I have been focusing so much on in my research. I wanted to challenge myself and transcend the new perspectives I have gained into a cohesive and narratively consistent body of work aside from my sound piece and essay. The EP has been released, and I held a listening party at my first ever live performance which was at The George Tavern pub in Whitechapel. I played the EP at the end of my set before it released at midnight that night, which was great because it helped me flesh out my vision and bring a performative aspect to the project.
The project fuses many genres together, such as drum ‘n’ bass, UK dubstep, ambient, techno and hip-hop, and paints a clear sonic picture of where I am currently at in my sonic practice. The more I study sound arts, the more I am understanding and developing ways I can merge it with my music. My goals are becoming clearer now – producing scores and dance music, mix engineering and live performance are very prominent in my practice, and these are all things I am trying to contextualise within the world of sound arts.
Here is the EP for you to listen to!
And here is a video from the performance:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1R0AmHjbR0saqHtjmPhUDTSOdTgas07rG/view?usp=sharing