For this project I have chosen to do Order and Chaos after much consideration. At first, I was planning to do the Cities project and I got drawn towards the London Blitz during WW2. I started investigating this happening and wanted to focus on how a city rebuilds itself after war. I then noticed that this idea fit a lot better with the Order and Chaos brief so that’s why I changed my mind.
It was also relevant that the outline for this project was somewhat different from the previous ones (the 10 short audio clips as opposed to five 30-second musical ideas). This gives me a lot more room to experiment without having to dedicate a lot of time to ideas that didn’t inspire me too much.
I also felt that these two phenomena (Order and Chaos) can be regularly found expressed in music and there is therefore much more to be discovered and a greater variety of examples to analyse.
This blog is dedicated to record my thoughts and feelings while I attempt to come up with a convincing and personal example regarding this very narrative.
This is one of the images I looked at while researching the war. It depicts a combination of an image of the Holborn Circus Statue in London taken during the war and in our present day. It’s truly shocking to see the comparison in this way.
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