Iacopo Seri
This was a very weird and odd lecture to experience and was the first time I had listened to sound art. He began the lecture by not talking English and using a made up language of humming at different pitches to communicate with us and to try to get us to react with similar sounds. As if he was teaching us this new language, we learnt sounds such as clapping, barking, wooing, and other various animal noises that he then later controlled. He did this by projecting a blank sheet and instructing us on what noise to make based of the mark he created on the page. It was impressive how he conveyed everyone to follow his wacky performance and to in the end have a piece the would later exhibit. In the Q and A session afterwards he explained, in English, that it was his first time doing it and wanted to see the results of his experiment. He relies on improvisation and reactions to inspire him to carry on with his performance. For example, someone sneezed through the lecture and he took that sound into consideration with the mark making. It was fun and interesting to see this type of medium, even though it wasn't influencing my own work.
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