Aside from the songs that I write about my little little life, I also dabble in 'sound art', which is essentially using sound as a medium to communicate an artistic intention. Which sounds a whole lot more complicated than it actually is.
The accessibility of art has always been kind of 'iffy', because it seems like a lot of people are intimidated by the possibility of misunderstanding a piece of art and its meaning. I hate that because it means that people tend to switch off before even attempting to appreciate an artwork - in fact I've been guilty of that myself, standing alone in large neutral empty rooms raising my eyebrows at sculptures consisting of a single juice box or something. I always feel like I'm missing something when that happens. But in saying that, I've always stuck by that noble artistic idea that everything and anything can be art, as long as someone truly believes that the object or idea communicates an artistic intention. So even if you don't really understand a piece of art, I guess you just have to take it for granted that it IS art because someone believes it is, and try to appreciate it for what it is and take your own meaning from the experience. But I digress.
The point of the above paragraph was to reiterate that while 'sound art' sounds like some contemporary artform that you have to listen to standing on your head in someone's loft in Berlin wearing skinny jeans and a beret and even then you're not 'supposed' to get it, all it really is is me, sitting in my bedroom, putting socks over my hands to make a 'beat' and recording audio from The Brady Bunch and playing it over and over again.
Sound art was my primary focus for year 12 Art last year and I feel sad leaving all my trials that took me hours and hours tucked away in my monster folio underneath my bed. I'm interested in your reactions to what I've done here because several people that I respect have said that they liked it - plus, I had a lot of fun doing it and it's something that I am likely to pursue this year, studying music composition in many of its forms. So let me know what you think!
I have created a new YouTube channel called eilishdoeslikesongs. I chose this name because 1. I do like songs and 2. when asked what on earth I was doing I used to describe the things like 'well, they're like songs...' Which they are pretty much.
So yeah. That's where you should go, should you require musical accompaniment to Sylvia Plath talking about being compared to John Donne or Marcia Brady commenting on feminism. I'll be uploading sporadically depending on my dangerously severe fluctuation of enthusiasm and confidence in this stupidity.
Much love, and thanks, to you all x
oooh! more, please? =D
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