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Week 3
Read more: Week 3Futurism Luigi Russolo’s ‘Futurist Manifesto’, may be viewed as optimistic in the context of a hypothetical post-racial, post-colonial, apolitical society, however, given the dominant culture that surrounded it – fascism. The ever alluring promise of advancement echoes the present day technoimperalist obsession with delusions of transcending human nature and the ephemeral body, conceptions of hyper-optimized…
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week 1
Read more: week 1Aies Grieve is the artistic moniker of experimental producer and writer, Angel Fikunayomi, an alias that arose in response to the little deaths’ we witness and experience daily as a result of our material reality under white supremacy. As an artist, I am constantly exploring the dichotomy of sound as a tool and as a…
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week 2
Read more: week 2Repetition I think about hypnosis, trance like states induced by sound, chants, hymns and prayers. It hyper focuses on a fragment, it speaks to the way we hyper fixate, overanalyse and obsess over micro interactions and fleeting moments, the repeated sequences unveil hidden melodies, create auditory distortions and at times confuse the senses (how saying…
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week 1
Read more: week 1My relationship to sound evolved in the church. My foundation in gospel music caused me to develop a keen interest in how sound interacts with memory, emotion and the body, how it connects the material and metaphysical worlds. I am curious about how sound creates our reality, and distorts it, what that says about our…