Tuesday, 25 January 2011

The River Rea V's The Rubber Duck.

My first attempt at putting some content alongside my music choice.

Quite experimental, with the purpose/aim to visually show the flow of the river. Does it do that? Perhaps a little, but I have not really concluded anything, so I guess it lacks any real purpose at the moment. Its something I think I could develop further into my project though.

Music to my ears..

So, my final choice of music :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlEN8svyHj8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGzJFJRkmCE

And why did I pick these? Well I wanted a piece of music which would represent my emotional responses to the Rea. And what were these? Curiosity. Anxioty. Uneasy-ness. Increased heart rate. ect.

Persides who doesnt love the Tron soundtrack.

Monday, 24 January 2011

Fantasia

An example of turning music into animation. (I've mainly posted these videos because they're pretty and i loved fantasia as a kid).


 

Sarah

Saturday, 22 January 2011

More music research

This week I've been listening to Tool, Sigur Ros, Amon Tobin, Orbital, Mogwai, Mono, Kraftwerk, Gershwin and Jordan Rudess. I think my second song selection is going to be a choice between 2 Amon Tobin songs:

















They both use samples that sound to me like industrial work (or kitchen utensils being banged on things but industrial work fits better with the site) and calm piano or guitar which stops in some places like the river disappearing from view but the consistent beat of both songs reminds me that the river is always flowing.

Sarah

Thursday, 20 January 2011

Reading time.

Found two books at the Central Library, about The River Rea.
Both by Harry Reeves - I like this man, wish more people were this passionate about whats around them. And his poems about the Rea are brilliant!

I can scan any pages in, once im done, if I think there of any use?













Wednesday, 19 January 2011

Brian Eno - Tal Coat



This is the best fitting music to the ideas I have about the river (so far). I like the layering of 'bubbles', like the river, constant steady 'buzzing', like the traffic and train line surrounding the river, and the electronic synth sounds which I feel represent the youthful/musical/artistic way Digbeth is developing. The occasional piano notes could be a duck swimming against the current..


Sarah

Friday, 14 January 2011

Wednesday, 12 January 2011

Tuesday, 11 January 2011

DigiMap

River Rea - Fish spotted

River Rea post by Jocelyn is River Rea tributary of River Severn. River Rea in Birmingham is tributary of River Trent. Two different river systems.

Few websites to wet your whistle..

Pretty much everything you want too know -
www.riverreatrail.org.uk

Small section of the River Rea in the past -
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=468406&page=23

We have fish -
http://petemarshall.com/diary/2010/04/fish-passes-on-the-river-rea/
(Correction - Wrong river. So, the fish debate go's on..)

A short bbc film, featuring a nice old man - http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/birmingham/hi/people_and_places/nature/newsid_8706000/8706783.stm

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