Cupboard Love

Blackburn, Manuella

Abstract

This work explores the memories found in cupboards, drawers and cabinets. Scraps of paper, photographs and mementos come to life through sonic snapshots of earlier times. Opening and closing cupboards offers an inviting gesture to enter new sonic worlds; a cliché of the acousmatic genre, but reimagined here as an everyday action that frames the appearance of sound memories. This open-close action reveals environments, places and spaces, showing brief sonic glimpses of my past years. A key influence guiding the work’s construction was the concept of the interruption. Exploring interruptions in all their forms and how these impact upon continuity was an important step for developing the work’s structure.

Citation

Blackburn, M. (2023). Cupboard Love. [digital, fixed media composition]. Doshisha Women’s College of Liberal Arts – K101 Shokeikan Hall, Kyoto (Japan)

• Other Type: Composition
• Acceptance Date: Jan 1, 2025
• Online Publication Date: Oct 1, 2024
• Publication Date: Mar 12, 2023
• Deposit Date: Jan 21, 2025
• Keywords: Interruptions, acousmatic music composition, field recordings
• Public URL: https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/1049674
• Related Public URLs: https://electrocd.com/en/album/6641-interruptions
• Additional Information: This is a music composition published on the album, Interruptions (2024) by empreintes DIGITALes, Montreal, Canada.