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Avant Garde Jazz and Jazz Fusion [research]

Alice Coltrane - Journey In Satchidananda

Alice coltranes Journey in Satchidananda is a spiritual Jazz album overflowing with transcendence harmony and grief. This album was written after the death of Alice's husband John Coltrane and, Johns death left Alice bereft, She couldn't sleep, she saw visions and she lost weight. due too her illness Alice seemed health from a guru named Swami Satchidananda who had spoken to the crowds at Woodstock. His advise and spiritual guidance had soothed her spirit and inspired her to created the album which was also named after the man himself.

Kamasi Washington's conceptual jazz album, 'The Epic', explores jazz from the point of an African American in the US During the current political status. Released in 2015, the album is 3 discs and 2 hours and 54 minutes long, and surprisingly after working as a member of the band which helped created kendrick Lamar's 'To Pimp a Butterfly' the album is completely hip-hop free. Taking influence from 70's Fusion Jazz pioneers like Miles Davis and Weather Report; and also soul jazz artists like John and Alice Coltrane Washington's 'The epic' comes across as a love letter to Early 70's Jazz. 

Kendrick Lamar's 'To Pimp a Butterfly', is a current day 'Masterpiece' which looks at Political satire through the eyes of the black man in america. the fusion of hip hop and jazz created byKendrick and his band which includes members such as Kamasi Washington and Thundercat creates an atmosphere like no other. The glitchy vocals and whelps from a drunk Kendrick on 'u' mixed with the smooth saxophone and jazz instrumental shows Lamar's raw emotion as he speaks about his sisters boyfriend who has wronged the family, and then going on to rap about how he relates to the boyfriend as he has wronged many people in the same situations. Another stand out song on the trackless is 'Mortal Man' a track where Kendrick questions the audience and asks "when shit hit' the fan is you still a fan". He is asking if everything goes wrong with his career would you still listen t his music, and after the song Lamar creates a lengthy interview with the late rapper 2pac. The interviews made with cuts from past 2pac interviews shows Lamar and 2 talk about metaphors as they share poetry.

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‘Getting Trollied’

This piece being shown at St Mary’s Works explores the theme of ‘Play with me’ witch is also the name of the show it is being exhibited in. It is a mixed media interactive piece as people can play on the 90′s style arcade console placed in the middle of the painted on pentagram painted in the centre of the trolly. The piece explores the aesthetic of horror witch I have been exploring loosely throughout the unit. I have tried to make the piece fun whilst also feeling grimy and Satanic. 

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Charles Mansons Influence on The Music Industry [research]

Although Manson was seen , with his piercing eyes, as the poster boy of hate and murder Charles was actually an aspiring musician prior to his leadership of the Manson family Cult. Influential artists such as Neill Young and John Lennon have often spoke highly of him, Lennon once even said 'I think a lot of the things he says are true'. Manson even went on to write a song for The Beach Boys. Young Was so inspired by Manson's art of 'song spewing' that he once gave Charlie a motorcycle for helping him finish an arrangement. A side from west side Californian sunshine boys, artists from both the underground and mainstream have covered Manson's music. The most famous of whom would be Guns 'n' Roses who covered the song 'Look at Your Game Girl' on There album 'The Spaghetti Incident' (1992) Which has gone on to sell 5.5 million copies worldwide. This caused a stir which resulted in lawsuit after lawsuit from families of the Tate/LeBianca murders, most notably Sharon Tate's.

Guns and Roses - Look at Your game girl

While influential to the mainstream, Charles Manson has also been a major figure in the underground music scene since the moment the trial began. the band Trobbing Gristle, pioneers in the industrial music scene, were pushing a lot of Manson imagery out into the fold of the early 70's. Like many others Genesis P. Orridge (The founder of Throbbing Gristle) still holds the belief that Manson didn't receive a fair trial in the american judicial system "also theres no question in my mind that he didn't get a fair trial.

NYC experimental alt-rock band, Sonic Youth were often influenced by the darker side of American Culture. their album 'Bad Moon Rising' includes a song inspired by Manson titled 'Death Valley 69'.

Sonic Youth - Death Valley 69

The north American South West seems to be a hot bed for Manson. The energy he created and what he has provoked there still runs through the lands. in September 2001, the week of 9/11 LA Group, System of a Down, released the album 'Toxicity' and was very critical of US culture, There modern ways of life and the political nature of there military-industrial complex. 'ATWA' an acronym for Air, Trees, Water and Animals which was a popular slogan of Manson's and also an Environmental group he founded, Was the total of a song on the album of the avant-nu metal outfit. the bands Guitarist, Daron Malakian would often include statements said by Manson and quote him in interviews to test how gullible people are as more often then not they would agree completely with what he was saying.

System of a Down - 'ATWA'

In 2010 a Sacramento based Industrial-Hip Hop group broke onto the underground music scene, led by percussionist, Zach Hill. Death Grips had a raw rough around the edges sound bringing fear to the rather safe celebrity driven music world. The band popped onto the scene trough uploading a frantic visual of MC Ride sat in the passenger side of a vehicle in the lo-fi viral video for 'Guillotine'.

Death Grips - 'guillotine'

Around the same time as the 'Guillotine' Video death grips released 'Beware' which was accompanied by a pretty prominent Manson sample to start the song. In the sample Manson delivers a speech in which he talks about his own personal dealings with society (the game) and the music industry. During the speech he mostly talks about the 'pop world' and how major labels work and he ends it with 'The game is mine, I deal the cards'. strongly this oddly represents how Death Grips would stick the finger to their future label, Epic Records run by L.A. Reid (delivering an album to the world themselves after a battle with the label feat. drummer Zach Hill’s erect penis uncensored on the cover). In the Video for 'Beware' MC Ride can be seen running through Death Valley, the area of death valley where the Manson Family home was located. Later on in Death grips discography in the silent film/music video for 'Come up and get me' a shot of frontman MC Ride would appear  where he is sat under the kitchen sink, pictured in the exact same way Manson was moments before his apprehension by authorities in the Death Valley desert... Hiding under an old-school kitchen sink with a curtain covering the under carriage.

Death Grips - 'Beware'

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Soviet Propagandist Art [research]

‘Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge’, El Lissitzky, (1919)

Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge is a lithographic propaganda poster that is considered symbolic of the Russian Civil War in western publications. The piece is one of Lissitzky’s earliest attempts at propagandistic art and is in support of the red army and was created in 1919, shortly after the Bolsheviks had waged their revolution of 1917. According to El Lissitzky and his friends the art before the revolution of 1917 was old fashioned compared to the new art movement of Constructivism which this poster is a great example of.

‘Poster for First Five Year Plan: Let us Fulfil the Plan of Great Work’, Gustav Klutzes, (1930)

‘Poster for First Five Year Plan: Let us Fulfil the Plan of Great Work’ explore the idea of Marxist aesthetics as it follows the constructivist ideas of how the work is essentially concerned with the social role of art. Just like with Marx’s ideologies for art the work has a purpose and is against the whole idea of making art just for art's sake. 

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Curating for the Interim Show

Memory Space.

With this exhibition me and a group of people worked to gather to curate a show witch explored the theme of memory space. 

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‘Oink Oink’ at the Interim Show

Through this work have explored Upcycling; creating political based works which look at the current world around me. Through this piece I was looking at the racist piece of shit we have been stuck with as a prime minister and also at environmental politics as I create work from rubbish. Everything used in this piece was found in skips or thrown on the pavement. It looks at the ridiculous amount of waste we as a society create.

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Heavy Metal Poster Edits

These pieces represent the influence catholicism has on big budge Hollywood films and how it relates to satanism the realgion of worshiping statements and how these two parallels meet in horror movies. It also looks at the influence of Satanism within heavy metal as the piece is edited to be similar to a poster for a heavy metal band. 

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Printing Workshop

Exploring the demolition and reconstruction of Anglia Square.

Screen printing.

Copper etching.

With both the screen prints and the etching plate sculpture I am looking at the demolition and the reconstruction of Anglia Square. The print looks at the death of the working class culture which makes Anglia Square what it is today. The print is a black edit of a graveyard with a red text printed over the top, the print is the official description of development for the demolition and reconstruction of anglia square. The etching plate culture looks at times I've spent at anglia square and the surrounding areas as they are all objects i have found in and around anglia square all on separate occasions, the light fixture Picked up from around the back as it had been thrown there, the little green baby was found underneath the band stand and the bike light reflector was found by between the butchers and the cafe. also the plasterers arms coaster is from the pub round the corner of the same name.

I like how both the screen prints and the sculpture turned out however i didn't like the outcome of the prints from the etching which is why they are not her, I didn't like how they seemed rushed and weren't as bold as i wanted.

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Hybrid Workshop

‘Death’

With this piece as a group we were exploring the theme of death as the load, abrupt sounds create the setting of life flashing before your eyes and then the serenity of death as the birds twitter and the figure representing 'the grim reeper’ meets you.

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Flicker

Through this piece I was looking at the flicker of a broken light and how putting it into slow motion completely altered how i saw the light, it made the colours of the light so much more visible and the distortion caused by the light is also more visible and profound.

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Sound Wave

For this piece I had made a really rubbish video that wasn't anywhere near good enough to put on here but the movement of the sound wave was really intreating me and i find the movement of it almost hypnotising and i could sit and watch it for hours.

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Tai Shani//Helen Cammcock//Lawrence Abu Hamdan//Oscar Murillo//Turner Prize Winners. [Research]

The 2019 turner prize went to all four participants for the first time since the galleries opening in 2011. The winning artists (from top image to bottom) were Tai Shani, Helen Cammock, Oscar Murillo and Lawrence Abu Hamden. They decided that they wanted a joint win as an action of solidarity, as well as a protest to the current political situation of the UK causing divisions in communities across the nation; an act I find admirable.

Shani’s piece combined media and sculpture to produce a surreal environment that completely envelopes the viewers attention and transports them into a mystical realm. The ability to involve an audience so completely is something I want to express in my exhibitions.

Cammock’s piece involved a fragmented chain of videos that represent the fragile nature of current global relations. I found this interesting as I also focus in on political themes throughout my works.

Murillo’s large-scale piece was very interesting as he had created many clay-based sculptures of people in working labour uniforms, slouched onto pews in a room shrouded in black cloth, with only a slither of light emerging from a window. I also feel that the impacts of exploitation on the working class are important subjects for art pieces, as they connote wider world issues at present.

Finally, Abu Hamden’s video combined a narrative explaining the power of audio in art and forensics, and unleashed a new perspective towards the power of sound which I’m looking to explore in my later works.

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Lithograph plate by L. Crusius for the Antikamnia Chemical Co. calendar, 1898 [research]

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Edits for Hybrid workshop

These edits were for the hybrid workshop as we had to bring in some images each, These made it onto the piece titled ‘Death’ witch also featured images and videos from other students and found sound samples

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HELMET

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JPEGMAFIA - PRONE     [research]