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dc.contributor.author |
Caines, CC
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7052-2731
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dc.date.issued |
2016 |
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dc.identifier.citation |
The Classification of Clouds, Cloud Observatory, 2016 |
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dc.identifier.uri |
http://hdl.handle.net/10453/132512
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dc.description.abstract |
A cloud never seems to be just a cloud. When we’re lying on our backs in the grass on a summer's day, we see heads, animals, mountains, body parts, all morphing and changing. When we’re uploading files, sending messages, we send them out into an internet so mysterious, so ethereal, that we’ve taken to calling it the cloud. When we look to the clouds as signs of weather we think of the climate, the carbon particles filling the atmosphere, storms, rain, sea levels. |
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dc.format |
Radio feature, Exhibited visual art (video) |
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dc.publisher |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation, WFMU |
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dc.relation.ispartof |
The Classification of Clouds, Cloud Observatory |
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dc.title |
The Classification of Clouds, Cloud Observatory |
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utslib.location |
ABC Radio National, Torre dei lambardi gallery (Italy) WFMU (USA) |
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utslib.for |
1902 Film, Television and Digital Media |
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pubs.embargo.period |
Not known |
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pubs.organisational-group |
/University of Technology Sydney |
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pubs.organisational-group |
/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences |
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pubs.organisational-group |
/University of Technology Sydney/Strength - CPCE - Centre for Creative Practices and the Cultural Economy |
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utslib.copyright.status |
closed_access |
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pubs.consider-herdc |
true |
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pubs.place-of-publication |
ABC Radio National, Torre dei lambardi gallery (Italy) WFMU (USA) |
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pubs.rights-statement |
The Classification of Clouds is a twenty minute radio essay musical composition that explores the ways in which we use clouds as metaphors to both obscure and reveal. Research Background This research sits in the field of Musical Composition (1904) and Media Studies (1901). Glen Gould (Idea of North 1967) demonstrated that the essay documentary in radio could be composed using ideas traditionally found in musical structures. Steve Reich (Different Trains 1988) showed that historical documentary ideas could expand the vocabulary of composition. Paul Miller (Rhythm Science 2004) argues that composition is fundamentally an act of collage. The research question addressed by this project is: how does the vocabulary of music extend the meaning of the radio essay, how does musical form have an impact on meaning? Research Contribution The Classification of Clouds demonstrates that through the construction of a radio essay using the musical techniques of counterpoint, repetition, timbral variety and return as well as the verse/chorus/bridge shapes of popular song can extend radio language. Doing this primarily by communicating with an audience on simultaneous formal levels creating new meaning in the synthesis of forms. Research Significance The Classification of Clouds was commissioned by ABC Radio National for the Sound Proof program and was first broadcast on the 29th of April 2016 to an audience of approximately one hundred thousand listeners. It remains currently available as a download and streaming podcast. http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/soundproof/clouds/7350088 |
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Background In the mid-20th c. development of electronic music, the term radiophonic (and related radiophonic essay) transitioned from early uses that simply described electronic sound art and music distributed via broadcast (Schaffer 1942-1955), to become an umbrella term for exploratory sound design (Oram 1952) for radio realised using tape and electronic techniques. This attention to sound as texture has undergone a recent surge in interest as producers attempt to extend the language of the radio feature (or extended podcast) in particular to re-imagine the form (Radiolab 2002–), (Radio Revolten 2016–). In this work Caines brings musical structure and visual textual moving image counterpoint to the radio documentary, asking how these can transform and disrupt our received notions of the form. Contribution A 20-minute radio feature and 21-minute video work, ‘The Classification of Clouds’ uses the structural techniques of music as editing principles to explore a structure of expanded documentary, allowing a transformative understanding of the central metaphor of the cloud at the centre of the work. Voice, field recording, animated text, satellite imagery and glass cloud chamber bowls (Partch 1950) are arranged in a multimodal counterpoint using overlapping time variances to create an interplay between the relative salience of elements that allows meanings to shift, re-combine and extend. The work creates a new model for production and reception of the radio documentary form, and for the extension of the relationship between text and image in video art. Significance Commissioned by the Creative Audio Unit of ABC RN, the work was broadcast in Australia in 2016 to an audience of 100,000 listeners. The video version, ‘The Cloud Observatory’, was curated by Giorgio de Finis (MACRO, Rome) into the 2016 Luna Al Popolo exhibition at Torre dei Lambardi (Magione), Italy. The radio version was subsequently broadcast on WFMU, New York (2019) to an audience of approximately 250,000. |
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pubs.rights-statement |
Background In the mid-20th c. development of electronic music, the term radiophonic (and related radiophonic essay) transitioned from early uses that simply described electronic sound art and music distributed via broadcast (Schaffer 1942-1955), to become an umbrella term for exploratory sound design (Oram 1952) for radio realised using tape and electronic techniques. This attention to sound as texture has undergone a recent surge in interest as producers attempt to extend the language of the radio feature (or extended podcast) in particular to re-imagine the form (Radiolab 2002–), (Radio Revolten 2016–). In this work Caines brings musical structure and visual textual moving image counterpoint to the radio documentary, asking how these can transform and disrupt our received notions of the form. Contribution A 20-minute radio feature and 21-minute video work, ‘The Classification of Clouds’ uses the structural techniques of music as editing principles to explore a structure of expanded documentary, allowing a transformative understanding of the central metaphor of the cloud at the centre of the work. Voice, field recording, animated text, satellite imagery and glass cloud chamber bowls (Partch 1950) are arranged in a multimodal counterpoint using overlapping time variances to create an interplay between the relative salience of elements that allows meanings to shift, re-combine and extend. The work extends possible models for production and reception of the radio documentary form, and by extension, the relationship between text and image in video art. Significance Commissioned by the Creative Audio Unit of ABC RN, the work was broadcast in Australia in 2016 to an audience of 100,000 listeners. The video version, ‘The Cloud Observatory’, was curated by Giorgio de Finis (MACRO, Rome) into the 2016 Luna Al Popolo exhibition at Torre dei Lambardi (Magione), Italy. The radio version was subsequently broadcast on WFMU, New York (2019) to an audience of approximately 250,000. |
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