Residencies ask a lot of you before you make a single mark.
A practical guide to using photographs as situated research: define a question, return to a place, keep contextual notes, and make ethical choices.
How the Zoom F3 field recorder works, what 32-bit float means outdoors, and how it compares with the Zoom F2 and F6 and recorders from Tascam and Sony.
How Pauline Oliveros coined Deep Listening in a Washington cistern, what the practice means, what her book teaches, and how artists can use it today.
What field recording is, how artists from Chris Watson to Jana Winderen use it, which recorder and microphones you need, and how to work well outdoors.
How an audio art installation works, from Janet Cardiff's Forty Part Motet to Max Neuhaus's Times Square, and how to build and experience one.
How artist residencies in Europe are funded, where to find open calls, what programmes like Solitude, the Rijksakademie and Saari offer, and how to apply well.
How to find good art retreats close to home, what a weekend art retreat usually includes, why coastal retreats work so well, and how to judge one before you book.
Who can apply to Yaddo, when the two application cycles open, what each discipline must submit, and what life on the Saratoga Springs estate is really like.
From colour organs and hand-drawn soundtracks to Steina Vasulka's violin and Ryoji Ikeda's data projections, a guide to audiovisual art and how to research it.
How Susan Philipsz, a Glasgow-born sculptor with an untrained voice, made sound installations from folk songs, bridges and station platforms, and what her method offers artists.
How painters from Caravaggio and Clara Peeters to Chardin and Cézanne used food in still life, what the objects meant, and how to read a painting.
Drawing can be more than illustration. In research, it can slow observation, test ideas, and make uncertain thinking visible.
From Chladni's sand figures and Kandinsky's concert painting to graphic scores and Christine Sun Kim's charcoal charts: how artists turn listening into marks.
