Category: Contemporary Issues in Sound Art

Fair Bradley

Bradley (b. Iran) is an artist engaging with listening, language and the environment.  Her research-based practice spans the mediums of performance, broadcast, installation and sculpture. Core methodologies revolve around experimentalism, deep listening and exercises in modes of communication and reception.

Bradley’s works employ treated found objects, textiles and electronics. Her live performances stage interplays between architecture, public space and history, provoking and repositioning the listener, questioning our sense of self and our place within both society and nature.

Faribradley.co.uk. 2022. About – Fari Bradley. [online] Available at: <https://www.faribradley.co.uk/about> .

This was one of my favourite pieces from the lecture. First of all, the music was very appealing and interesting to me. The music is different for the left and right channels. The electric light makes the whole piece look interesting.

Felisha Ledesma is an artist and organizer based in Portland, OR. Felisha is the Executive Director of S1, an artist-run center that strives to provide engaging, relevant, and critical visual art, performance and education programming. In 2015 Felisha cofounded Women’s Beat League throwing workshops, lectures, and parties focused on representing the female-identified and nonbinary views in electronic music. In 2016 Felisha cofounded the S1 Synth Library, dedicated to providing education and access to local, national, and international artists by hosting regular workshops, open library hours, and an artist-in-residence program. Felisha’s focus has been providing low or no cost access to art and education in a supportive, nontraditional learning environment. As a sound artist she constructs cathartic and minimal pieces with a patchwork of field recordings, synthesizers, tapes, and voice.

CascadiAvant.com. 2022. Felisha Ledesma. [online] Available at: <https://www.cascadiavant.com/artist/463/felisha-ledesma>.

My favourite part is the final section from about 9:49 or so, from where the music sounds intertwine with the ambient sounds.

Wysing Art Centre more of an avalanche presents work produced, researched, shared or discussed at Wysing in 2017 when we developed our programme under the theme Polyphonic (many voices).The exhibition considers what it takes for people in marginalised positions to speak out and the mechanisms that get used to stop them from doing so. Looking back at 2017, the exhibition includes the ephemeral “work” produced at Wysing alongside traditional material forms.Photos, posters, mixes, furniture and a collection of writing reference the informal discussions,DJ sets, meals, workshops, experiments and events that shaped the year.