MDes Sound for the Moving Image School of Innovation & Technology
Samuel Alexander
Interested in the representation of everyday humanity, Sam’s work throughout the last year has been focused on the digestible communication of the expansiveness of the human. Producing both film and audio works which look to, at their core, carry a compassion towards the subject, understand a small aspect of them and amplify this to an audience with the goal of furthering empathy, acknowledgment and shared experience. Sam’s work has held the human as its guiding principal, pushing spectators and listeners to engage, on an equal level, with the subject and consider an other.
Sam has a musical background in piano as well as playing in bands and recording. Formerly a junior architect, Sam graduated from the Mackintosh School of Architecture (MSA) in 2021 before joining the profession, gaining experience with design, regulations, clients and project management but ultimately decided to take a chance on passion and returned to the Glasgow School of Art to study Sound for the Moving Image and pursuing a dream of working in audio within the moving image arts.
Works
One of Three
This film looks to bring awareness to loneliness and social isolation and as such overarching themes of mental health are present.
One of Three – Soundscapes of Loneliness.
Made for the Masters Thesis, One of Three is a film which aims to explore the loneliness and urban isolation by utilising asynchronous sound as a methodology for representing character interiority and as a way to build deeper connection between subject and viewer.
The sounds are a representation of the subjects emotive state, there is little sound when the subject is around other people which represents the isolation and disconnect from society whilst over the shots where the subject is alone the audio world is dense and harsh, representing the notion of the never quiet, troubled mind.
