MDes Sound for the Moving Image School of Innovation & Technology
Lucy Ludlow
I’m Lucy Ludlow, an experimental filmmaker, multi disciplinary artist and musician.
I’ve been playing live music since age 12 primarily bass and cello though I am a multi instrumentalist. I have toured extensively in Europe and some of America. Currently I play in a dark wave punk band called Qlowski and a chamber pop band called Sculpture Park, both with soon to be released LP’s.I’ve recorded in professional studios in the UK, Dublin and New York. Being a multi instrumentalist I have familiarised myself with many different approaches to music making.
At undergraduate, I studied Fine Art at Chelsea College of Arts developing a multidisciplinary practice focusing on experimental sound and Film. I also worked with ceramics as well as photography and digital collage, since I have used these skills to make posters and graphic artworks.
Over the course of the masters my work has become concerned with contemplative styles of film making, gender diversity and mixing music/immersive soundscapes in Ambisonics. I have been exploring the possibilities of spatial sound and have subsequently developed creative mixing skills for music and sound design.
Sound Design for Meshes of the Afternoon
A re-make of the sound design for Meshes of the Afternoon by Maya Derek and Alexandr Hackenschmied. All music is original, all sound effects created using foley, a Korg opsix synthesizer, sound library samples and my own voice. I made the sound design based only on image by watching the film on silent.
Spatial Flowers
Video collage and binaural soundtrack.
This piece draws upon the movement of flowers and bees to create a spatial soundtrack or immersive piece of music and an experimental film. Conceptually the work is about bees and flowers hearing each other and being sonically altered by their interactions. This idea stems from an interest in the natural world and a want to represent the parts of it we don’t experience. I had been experimenting with textural sound and static film based on this idea. Entering the imagined worlds and possible perspectives of a bee or smaller insect. The sound track was originally mixed in Ambisonics as a immersive soundtrack.
The video uses archival footage of flowers opening that I collected from the YouTube channel of SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry. Saxophone by James Hurst.
The Reflexive Sky
Film and spatial soundtrack
An experimental film investigating the feelings of contemplation present in the activity of sky watching. The soundtrack was originally mixed using third order Ambisonics all music composition is original.The score is choral and manipulated to feel as if all voices are blending. This is a binaurally rendered version of the mix.