Fari Bradley talked a lot about sketches and how they can relate to improvising and self-expression. It was interesting to see how Bradley included sketches in almost all of her work. She talked about how women are seen not heard or heard but not listened to. In order to address this, she created a piece called “What You Listen To,” where she also used the idea of sketches in the form of a woven textile held down by rocks.
I found Kemp-Welch’s project “The Right To Record” inspiring as not only a piece of sound art but also as a documentation of a group of people in a specific time and place. The project brings to light the unfair process of interviews carried out by benefitting companies. To expect disabled people to be financially and physically able to learn how to use and buy cassette tapes is astounding. As someone who studies sound hearing about the company’s reason for only allowing cassette tapes is beyond ridiculous. For someone to edit sound in real-time while at an interview is highly unlikely. In general, I loved the idea that Kemp-Welch put forward about how radio can be used as art.