greg hooper
MUSIC
derivative (music...remixes of favourite classical pieces)
works of the masters (recordings made in front of art works such as the Mona Lisa etc)
three activities for a swimming pool((floating steel bowls on the surface of a pool and throwing ice into the water, pool toys and splashes, rain on water)
brighton bag walk (dragging the bag through the streets of brighton on the classic journey from train station to flat; )
across the road A field recording of a house being built across the road. I recorded an
backyard hour every Tuesday morning (at about 10:00 am) for 28 weeks. Each week
provides - I think - 20 secs of both background and individual spot
sound. The background was developed by taking a representative sample
from that week, taking the FFT randomising the phase, then taking the
IFFT, to give a noise sample that represented the spectrum (but not the
dynamical structure) of that week. This was then convolved with
representative sound of whatever the activity of that week was. backyard One hour long recordings made every 6 hours for 24 hours in our
backyard in Brisbane one summer. Condensed down into 2:30 for each hour and played in strict sequence
Overlaid on top of that are spot sounds that seemed to me to represent the normal sounds of that week.
The density of the sounds is determined by a drawing the builder made of the activity cycle across the entire building period.
on a dirt road in a fast car a tribute to a friend who died in a car accident. Shortlisted for Sound Art Australia a joint competition between ABC and WDR back in 1991.