Rebecca Leivers 3rd year Fine Art

 Below is a recent interview (2022) with Vashti Bunyan from the guardian. So I'm really enjoying finding out more about the records and her process and her life. As I think more  deeply about making my own recording, what is the barrier to me getting on with it? reading about musicians I admire and their process is inspiring and motivational to me but sometimes when I listen to my favoured songs I feel overwhelmed with a sense of inadequacy so reading other peoples stories is also helpful here.  She wrote this album about a travelling experience over 2 years in the outer Hebrides. Interview Folk star Vashti Bunyan: ‘My voice made me think of sorrow. I didn’t even sing to my children’ Jude Rogers Groomed to be a 60s pop star, the singer instead headed for the Hebrides in a horse-drawn cart and then withdrew from music for 30 years. She recalls those fraught, naive but incomparable times @juderogers Fri 18 Mar 2022 06.00 GMT 150 O n paper, what Vashti Bunyan did in the late...

  Pipilotti Rist  (link for video )"Ever is Over All" 1997 She describes video art as a handbag- "you can pack it all in" I like this metaphor, it's quite freeing, you can put all your art into o a video; audio, visual ,sculptural ,conceptual, abstract and factual . I've often felt video art is limiting but I think being a bit scared of the tech and also the way to present it. Too many boring TV screens with headphones. I really hate that in a public exhibition. I'd rather see a video play with audio. I don't have the concentration to sit in a public space wearing communal headphones especially if there are a lot of them in the exhibition.   I know this is for practical reasons if there are lots of other video audio art in same exhibition.  Just choose one video/ audio work per room and make a feature of it to compliment the other works. I think that s much more effective way to show the work and supply atmosphere in my experience of visiting exhibit...

  Link to watch documentary Ben Edge Website Ben Edge British artist is a person I've come across during my research , initially for his involvement with the museum of British folklore and the folk costume exhibition. Hes a painter and also a film maker, gathering footage of folk customs across the British Isle during 2019 pre covid and has thus year released a documentary of that journey. His initially attrition to folklore was to make paintings as a romantic artist, but. Like myself he is fascinated by the customs and has become deeply immersed in the scene. Apply this to my project ? How?  The idea of making a documentary, a project blog is how I my document my research and ideas. History is documented..anything that is recoded. I'm looking at making video. What is the purpose of my video? I'm documenting a moment, or series of moments. But are those moments fabricated and fiction?  What am I trying to say with this project? I'm trying to set a vision to my music to ...