Enslave Your Senses

Some pictures from the event where I exhibited my piece 'Deaf To' have been uploaded to my myspace profile.

The event went really well and I'm really grateful to those who took the time to listen to my piece and leave me comments in the comment book.

I've learn't a lot through this experience.

In the weeks building up to the event I was incredibly nervous, worried about my piece and how it would be received by people. Although my nerves faded once the show started, I was still anxious to know what people were thinking of my piece, essentially, whether they thought it was good or bad.

But I've realised now that you can't really say whether a piece like this is good or bad. And it doesn't really matter what other people think anyway.

What's important to me is that I had an idea that I cared about, that I wanted to express, and that I managed to create a piece of music or art that I was proud of.

And in that, I feel I have been incredibly successful.

Pre-Show Nerves

I'm getting incredibly nervous ahead of Enslave Your Senses this weekend.

I think that everything is finished and everything is ready. When I think of everything that I need to do, I'm pretty sure I've done everything, but something keeps nagging me, telling me I've forgotten about something, or that something isn't quite ready.

I'm also nervous about how my piece will be received. I've never done anything like this before, not publicly anyway. I have a terrible feeling that I'll get everything set up, everything ready, everything exactly the way that I want it, but people just won't get it, they won't understand exactly why they should be listening to my piece.

I keep telling myself why I have created this piece, the intentions behind it, and I'm fully confident that I have realised those intentions to the best of my ability.

Although I've listened to the piece over and over again and am starting to become sick of it, I am proud of it and I guess I just need to be confident and proud to exhibit my work. If people don't get it or question some of the ideas then I will have to be ready and prepared to provide answers to those questions, prove the work to them.

Hopefully most people will see exactly where I'm coming from and will enjoy the experience of listening to the piece.

I'm setting up the piece in the venue tomorrow morning and will upload an MP3 of the piece to my myspace at some point in the afternoon.

Deaf To...

Deaf Too... is the title of a piece I will be exhibiting at Enslave Your Senses, an Art festival taking place in Bath next weekend.

Below is the text that will be accompanying the musical piece.

A note from the artist;

I live next to a busy road. There is the constant sound of passing traffic.

But early on a Sunday morning, before the rest of the world has woken up, I notice that I can hear the sound of birds singing outside, the gentle hum of the refrigerator, the trickle of water through the pipes below the sink, and the soft breathing of my sleeping partner.

I wanted to create a piece of music using some of these sounds that are so quiet, they are drowned out of our everyday lives.

I also wanted to use some sounds that we hear so constantly, we no longer notice their presence.

If we listen very closely to the world around us, the spaces we inhabit, we will hear a multitude of rich, intensely detailed sounds that we have either become too accustomed to, or are otherwise masked by the louder sounds around us.

Plug Post

I'm writing this post for no reason other than to point you in the direction of my Myspace which I have recently updated with new music, as detailed in a previous post.

My new track, Bath City Test Piece can be found here

or

www.myspace.com/oliverowenmusicworld