Friday, 3 February 2012

artist profiles: sam ingham sam mcloughen

sam ingham



Paints Things
Sometimes,
I Don't Know Why,
But I Like To Stare,
At The Sky.


sam mcloughen

23 singing lamp posts

This sound work is made up from field recordings of singing (humming, buzzing, ect.) lamp posts. Over a two week period i took nocturnal walks around Rochdale and Todmorden searching out and documenting the few posts that produce audible frequencies. I was interested to find that singing posts uniformly emit the same root frequency, around 200Hz, just under G sharp. Other harmonics commonly occur, 5ths and Major 3rds along with a whole host of rattles, buzzes and other characteristics that are specific to each post. The sounds are presented consecutively in a 1:54 min loop. The project is ongoing with a CD release planned sometime this year.  

Sam mcloughlin (b.1981) is a musician and artist from Rochdale. He likes making musical instruments out of found objects and operating monophonic analog synthesisers. He performs and records under the name sam and the plants and releases music on the twisted nerve/ finders keepers label.  www.samandtheplants.com



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