Ben Shiels sound art

Monarchy Records is more than a label. It is my long-term vision for a self-sustained cultural engine that fuses the raw energy of UK dance music with the sharpness of a modern brand. Inspired by labels like EC2A, Hardline Sounds, and Untitled Distribution, I aim to turn Monarchy into a multi-dimensional enterprise encompassing vinyl distribution,…

Going into this project I had a few ideas that I was playing around with initially i wanted to do something with “voodoo people” by the prodigy, the main lead in that track gave me a lot of ideas, after recreating the main lead of the song in xfer serum using techniques that we learned…

in my personal time, I am extremely interested in dance music production and dj-ing, More specifically my interests are in the genres UK garage, speed garage, 140, grime and dubstep my plan for this essay is to explore the roots of garage and research how that then spawned the sub genres of 140, grime and…

Going into this projects I initially expressed interest in wanting to do something more down the route of music production but when it came to drafting up ideas for the sound piece, I wanted to try and make something that I was really interested in but at the same time was going really far out…

The differences between hearing and listening I feel like the main difference is that hearing is passive and listening is active. this is something I really didn’t understand until I really started to practice critical listening. I never considered how taxing and tiring critical listening is and also how impactful it can be. listening happens…

Sound 1: traffic lights traffic lights are a very interesting sound, they always have a consistent tempo and the texture and pitch can vary depending on where the particular traffic light is placed, for example, if it is placed somewhere with little to no cars or buildings around, the sound will be more flat and…

I found the campus listening exercise fairly interesting, I tend to use sound to familiarise myself with my surroundings more than I use things like touch. during the exercise, I found myself really in the moment and really paying attention to the way the acoustics were behaving around me I did my listening exercise the…

Offense: In a vast amount of the work I do, the things I design and the ideas I have one concept always comes back to me. Offence. I have always been fascinated by offence and how far things are able to be pushed. In a world where things like cancel culture are so prevalent and…

my interest in sound art came at the start of my time at college. I was originally split between choosing a film course or a fashion course but during my search, I found a very interesting advert for a course on “creative sound design”. once I had read the description of the course I was…

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