I thought it would be useful to explain perhaps a few artists that I enjoy their work and their website as influences to my own website, as well as how it’s set up and displayed.
Sofie Birch
I have been listening to Sofie’s radio show for a long time. And through that, I began listening to her work. She creates ambient / collage recordings and sound pieces that use field recordings as a sonic postcards. I find her work, releases and the labels she works with to be of interest to me. She is an artist that I hope to be, I find music and the industry surrounding it to be obsessed with the outcome and in more fine art scenes it seems that the artists are appreciated a bit more, and they can be more free with their work. I create ambient types of music with field recordings and her work is a huge inspiration as well as how she releases work, through Bandcamp and indie labels that release similar works. I do understand the more niche you go the less money perhaps you make, and it’s difficult to get to a point where u make money and survive off your work. She also runs a NTS radio show, I run a radio show currently on LOOSE FM where I go through Brazilian music from my culture. I would like to get on NTS Radio eventually.
Sofie’s website is simple, playful and creative. Something I took inspiration from, for my website.
The title of her name is super playful, and the photos are artistic and creative. Something I decided to do for my website/portfolio/showreel for the submission. She also has on the left-hand side her releases, installation works, video, animation etc. About and contact.
I did similar and used hot glue to the best of my abilities. I did lack a few of the options here such as installation works, animation etc. But I think over time I’ll add these onto my website as they grow and flourish.
Jez Riley French
I really enjoy Jez’s work, his writing and his Ted talks have inspired me to look at the microscopic and really listen and find interesting ways and devices, for example contact mics to expose these sounds. His field recording techniques and equipment that he makes are something I’ve wanted to get involved with myself, I have created LOM Priezor clones, and through Rory the sound technician at UAL I’ve learned to create contact mics. I’ve sold a few of these, including the LOM Priezor mic and it could be a potential thing to do as a side hustle like how Jez does.
His website is again super simple but aesthetically pleasing. Something I tried to do myself. I do feel my website will need a redesign after the submission as it will evolve with me. Right now as I’m balancing my new job as a studio assistant and finishing university this was the best I could do.
I really like the simple white background, the photo and the links to his further work. I have read and seen that there is a workshop he runs with other sound artists called murmuration where artists and others who pay go on trips together to field record and learn from the artists who are hosting it. Looks like something I’m really interested in doing once I can save some money. Anyway, i thought about doing it like this for my website, keeping it very simple but i felt that it perhaps didn’t suite my personally and my outlook on being creative.