Backstory
Where is Paul Purgas From?
Bristol
Detriot Techno
Interests began listening to Detriot Techno, for example, Underground Resistant. Paul was very interested in electronic composition.
“Music was a gateway into culture”
Paul Purgas
More examples of Electronic Music Composition,
Throbbing Bristol – Performative Electronic Production
Finish Electronic Music – Pansonic (Power of electricity) (Self-designed instruments)
Architecture
He began studying Architecture and developed an interest in Physcodelic Architecture in London interested me and the ideology that architecture is a theoretical landscape is also very interesting to me.
I asked the question has he ever combined the two? However unfortualty he hasn’t. He said he’s very much see it, in his horizon.
Empty Set
Paul Purgas created ‘Empty Set’ where he collaboratively realsed albums of electronic composition. His words were his first 2 albums reslased went unreconsised however that didn’t matter because he enjoyed the process which I strongly agree with. Reconition shouldn’t determain the process to art.
Sound & Space
Paul work began to gain recognition when he combined his disppinarys with architecture and sound and created records within site-specific work.
Empty Set – Medium
https://www.subtextrecordings.net/SUB005-EMPTYSET-Medium
…combining electronic music and physical space to create sound art.
Performing Architecture
In collaboration with Tate Britian Paul used the space of a Neclur Power Plant to minipltae electronic sound for a record.
Radio
Signal transmitted through space. Elevating the level to push yourself, the jump was made from nuclear to the space of the planet. How does radio signal travel? “ionosphere” propagation signal bounce from earth to the atmosphere and repeat.
Creating Instrumentation Made for a Space
Thinking beyond Electronic instrumentation to how sound is heard as acoustic instrumentation in a space. Paul infused a relationship between Sound and Terrain within his work.
How?
Sign wave sweep of a space, finding room resistants recording data/graphs. Working with the harmonics of a space. Using natural room harmonics enhances custom-made acoustic instrumentation.
QnA
Question
Have you ever thought of sound in a space from a spiritual/ritual perspective?
Answer
I noted down key words and terminology in his respomce to my question.
- Transcended
- Immersive
- Full-frequency sound for example Sub becomes bodily
- Sound is a Non-linguistic form
- Sound form of language
My Notes from Todays Lecture