Sonic Art & Sound Design- P10:Sonic art is a new art form, or rather, forms. As we shall see, it can encompass a wide range of activities, perhaps wider than almost any other art form. It is an unusual case, based upon a medium that has traditionally been regarded as inferior and subservient to other creative or expressive forms. | VICKI BENNETT Do you use a consistent way of working or do you regard each successive work as demanding something different every time I make all my work on an Apple sound is currently composed using Digidesign ProTools and the video is made on Adobe After Effects with final editing in Final Cut Pro see .This is also used in conjunction with Adobe Photoshop and Image Ready. My work is partly defined by the systems that I use. For instance I use availability of these plugins makes a difference to what it looks and sounds like. I ought to decide what I want to do then find a way to do it but more often than not I find what I have and then work with that. My editing techniques follow a certain course but each new project is approached as if I d never done it before. The nature of found sound and visual collage is you can t tell it what to do because it already happened. You are part director and part follower. It is sometimes a very rewarding and magical process watching for instance the way that two sources dance together and sometimes it is annoying not being able to get them to talk to one another. I tend to choose two sources to start with that I can somehow get to communicate with or jar with one another. That is the starting point and then I start to hang things on it . Sometimes the source material may be very specific like the album Stifled Love where lots of people were cut off vocally from being able to express themselves in love songs or sometimes it is very nonsensical and thrives on chaos or disobedience which leads to it being humorous. Do you aim your work at a particular market or target audience If so to what extent do you tailor the work to their expectations I tend to aim it at people like myself hence People Like Us .The aim is to elevate the mind through the various methods used in making humorous work or by other means - using more conventional methods like emotional content. I only tailor to my own expectations
