Author: George Coggan

Recently attended Imani Mason Jordan’s guest lecture which has since resurfaced on YouTube. I felt compelled to write a post about this one simply due to really resonating with a lot of their experiences and practices.

In Kate’s lecture, we explored our methods for producing work as well as situating our practice among other artists and researchers. ‘Reflect in a blogpost on your existing ways of working, and what these practices produce for you in terms of both opportunities and dilemmas in reference to your own portfolio project work-in-progress.’ I used…

Understanding the role of worship, liturgy and the Christian faith, within the Church as well as within a broader spiritual context, is fundamental to comprehending the synchronous development between the role of liturgy and changing in architectural form of physical churches. There is a clear link between the progression of Christianity as a practised faith…

This blog post will allow me to explore convolution reverb plugins more in depth. Below are some experiments I tried using impulse responses of random churches and cathedrals that i found online. I ran the impulse responses through ConvologyXT (a free convolution reverb plugin) and experimented with the parameters for the reverb.

Below are some screenshots of the text ‘Soundscapes of Byzantium’ and some notes that I took during and following the reading of this text. This text was, and still is, very important to me regarding not only my ideas for my prototype project but also for my dissertation. Soundscapes of Byzantium : Notes  Index

My initial brainstorm into how I should present my idea of ‘re-contextualising’ early Christian church architecture sonic characteristics lead me down a few different paths with a few different methods. I could just record audio of liturgical practices in these spaces but this made me feel a bit lost about presenting this in a contemporary…

During this lesson, we were introduced to the idea of working on a portfolio; particularly through the process of practice-based research. Whilst being fairly new to the term ‘practice-based research’ I quickly came to the understanding that it was a process in which I was very familiar with; a process that I found myself engaged…

In Hector MacInnes’ lecture we were introduced to the idea of situating our practices within the context of social art practice, communities and co-creation. Hector asked us to reflect upon this quote by François Matarasso (2019): “Art creates change, but it should be in the hands of the person who experiences it, not at the…