Independent study/personal creative practice
Think about the different stages of your project so far and the processes of research involved in each. Reflect on what you have discovered in your own work at the intersection of creative practice and contextual research: what knowledge has been created in your practice itself, and how has contextual research opened up new directions for your practice? Post your notes to your blog.
The main goal of this portfolio project was to approach the coding and electronics techniques that I have learnt during the course to the world of nature and sustainability in the form of an interactive sound installation. I can say now that I’ve found a substantial amount of interesting information and theories in relation with these subjects, but I’m particularly interested in new areas that I have discovered like, biophilic art, acoustic ecology and expanded soundscape studies among others.
Finding the relationships between nature and technology from a sonic point of view is my main interest in this project, and I have left in the background the technical aspects of an interactive sound installation, like the computer programming and electronics, having explored these more in depth in my dissertation.
I think that I’m researching really interesting theories and theorists like Roy Ascott and Cybernetics or R. Murray Schafer and Soundscape Studies, and I also found amazing interactive artists like Liz Phillips or Rafael Lozano-Hemmer. I’m definitely directing my practice into a more organic approach, having sustainability and nature fields always closer in my creations, and being keen to work with materials like wood or plants and experimenting with field recordings and nature sounds more often.