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Mary Lovett
- Jul 26, 2021
- 1 min
A Sound Investment
Feedback "Innovative and Awesome" Pete Murdoch "The shape of the piece where you build up getting ideas and sounds and then hear this...
Mary Lovett
- Jul 26, 2021
- 3 min
The Residency
This has been the most amazing and exhausting four days. Norwich Puppet Theatre have been extraordinarily generous in allowing me this...
Mary Lovett
- Jul 26, 2021
- 1 min
Last Minute Filming and Sound Design
The week before the Residency I was finishing the edits of the dialogue and deciding to add a few finishing touches to the binaural sound...
Mary Lovett
- Jul 15, 2021
- 1 min
Tech fail
The image above is chosen purely because it made me laugh after a trying day. This morning I reviewed the edit of the complete film, and...
Mary Lovett
- Jul 14, 2021
- 2 min
Editing Dialogue, Ambient Sound and Video
It was important to me that is sounded natural and unscripted, the zoom call was an hour long session, improvised around themes of the...
Mary Lovett
- Jul 14, 2021
- 1 min
Dada Machines and the Arculatron
Although I had decided not to film anymore scenes, I could not resist the opportunity to include a brief Cameo appearance of the...
Mary Lovett
- Jul 14, 2021
- 3 min
Field Recording & Dialogue
A few weeks ago I went for a walk in my neighbourhood, I was passing a primary school at playtime and was struck by the unmistakeable...
Mary Lovett
- Jul 6, 2021
- 3 min
Rainbow Wheel of Death and RF Noise
As well as having to remove malware from my computer this week, I have had a number of video editing challenges. My iMac is lurching...
Mary Lovett
- Jul 2, 2021
- 3 min
Unearthing a blog post I wrote on the 23rd of May but forgot to upload!
I am relieved to say that I have come up with more concrete ideas for this project. The film will be a collection of images of the sounds...
Mary Lovett
- Jul 1, 2021
- 3 min
18 days to the installation, time constraints and pragmatic decisions.
I've reached a point where I have eleven film vignettes and all of my ideas have not been realised. The time constraints of having it...
Mary Lovett
- Jun 27, 2021
- 1 min
More projection experiments
Although I am keenly aware that the focus of this project is audio, as it is an Audio Visual instillation, how it looks is also...
Mary Lovett
- Jun 27, 2021
- 1 min
Binaural recording at the hairdressers
I had an appointment at the hairdressers and thought that it might be a good opportunity to record how it sounds as your hair is being...
Mary Lovett
- Jun 22, 2021
- 1 min
Recreating the sound of a children's choir without any actual children.
One of the things I wanted to include in the film is recreating a musical moment that I had as a child. Being surrounded by four school...
Mary Lovett
- Jun 22, 2021
- 1 min
Experiments & Research
Rather than solely using Logics built in Binaural Panning, I thought that it would be a good idea to see if Sennheiser had anything more...
Mary Lovett
- Jun 17, 2021
- 2 min
U turn and editing nightmares.
I have made a U-turn on my editing software choice. This was based on my frustration of trying to use Davinci Resolve video editing...
Mary Lovett
- Jun 11, 2021
- 1 min
Planning is everything...
While I have been working alone I have had the luxury of experimenting with capturing sound with the plans being only in my head. For...
Mary Lovett
- Jun 11, 2021
- 2 min
It's all in the edit.
Editing considerations It has become apparent the logic pro X does not allow for editing more than one film at a time. I am placed in a...
Mary Lovett
- Jun 4, 2021
- 1 min
Other Artists and Installations that I have been researching.
Janet Cardiff's 40 part Motet Nick Rothwell Blending Code with Dance. Click the picture to link to the article. Pod Casts Conversations...
Mary Lovett
- Jun 4, 2021
- 3 min
Piano Experiments
Since childhood I have always been fascinated with how the reverb created by sustained notes and chords sounds and how the hammer...
Mary Lovett
- May 25, 2021
- 1 min
Adventures with Bird Song & Trains
I found myself in the highlands of Scotland for a work gig recently. It was an extremely long commute but I took the opportunity to use...
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