I felt that I wanted to extend the track I was working on and recorded in the last post, as I felt that it needed some more space to breathe to allow listeners to process the struggle and emotion that the track aims to communicate. Previously I wanted to contrast the sparsity of the spoken…

The recorded poem has turned out successfully, and I feel like I have made direct decisions in terms of the words used, how they are spoken, and the sound design/arrangement. In isolation I think the spoken word has a lot of impact – it is full of imagery that sparks the imagination, sounds intimate and…

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As I mentioned when talking about my last vocal experiments, I didn’t really like how my voice sounded. This is partly down to the fact that I barely ever hear my voice recorded, but also I think because of how I had edited the voice. Whilst the experiments I did were all successful and offered…

A key point I have come to understand I am communicating is how technology can be used to actually reclaim our identities, re-possessing our notion of self. Whilst technology is used as a tool for more control, more data-mining, a hyper-accelerated spread of information, it is also what makes people look forward – seeing technology…

I have recorded me speaking the poem as it stands, and I tried to edit the voice so that it was still distinctly human but had been re-possessed through the digital realm, the machine consuming the input and conjuring feedback loops and delay cycles. I felt that using my research to inform my sound editing…

I have managed to finalise a poem that I am happy with for the time being. Of course this can still be developed but I feel that this poem holds all of the content I want to explore and convey through spoken word. The narrative somewhat goes in a full circle, as the beginning of…

I have created some more sound pieces, experimenting more with rhythm and arrangement to construct a more final, deliberate track – I am not 100% sure if I will incorporate the poem into an actual song, or if I will keep the soundscape as an ambient backdrop, but I thought I would at least experiment…

I have collected some references that support my decision to pursue with a poem. These references cover some of the sonic effects that spoken word can have, as well as similar themes of self. The first references is Kendrick Lamar’s poem in his 2015 album ‘To Pimp a Butterfly’. The poem is read in parts…

Despite my wish in a previous post to simplify and write more concisely, I have extended the poem into quite a long and cluttered structure, with a lot of big words and imagery. I feel that at the stage I am at with the poem, I am still figuring out the best way to arrange…