When making the tracks, the band bypassed the standard procedure of making demos, the rough audio sketches recorded onto tape, later to be adjusted and fleshed out into full songs.
Taking advantage of architecture students learning styles (Úbeda & Escribano, 2002), the creation of some video sketching recording activity was developed as a course task in order to improve their language skills.
The album is a selection of comedy sketches recorded by Hartman in the 1970s that had been kept in storage until their release.
Much of what we now celebrate as priceless art was really just Leonardo Da Vinci's daily sketch book, which he recorded not because he was actively trying to make a masterpiece, but because the creative act was integrated to such a degree in his everyday life that it became the way he processed thoughts, writing them down with accompanying illustrations.
Younger artists like Lisa Oppenheim, Miranda Lichtenstein, Dash Snow, Anne Collier and Mungo Thomson, working at the end of the Polaroid instant-film era, have used the technology to experiment, sketch and record.
He drew rough sketches to record his experiences in the trenches and on leave, including a 1917 self-portrait in military uniform that opens the exhibition.
What is striking about the subsequent decade is how Constable used oil sketches to record nuanced effects of light and changes in the weather — an approach that would profoundly influence later artists, like the French Impressionists.
A typical show will establish an over-arching objective: their bid to beat the world sketch-performing record, say, or their (fictional) proprietor Pappy's demand for improved energy efficiency.
It helps if you are also a performer, and consequently your face and voice have long been recognisable (Beyond the Fringe, including Bennett's vicar sketch, was recorded for TV in 1964).
And in one remarkable, worked-up sketch, he records the scene almost exactly as it will appear in the final painting, right down to the foreground pool of shadow cast by the tree he is standing under.
