Monday, August 07, 2006

JULES, LAUREN, BRITTANY

Jules, Lauren, Brittany.
Auditory and imagery
PART ONE:
1. how the senses work Our quick interpretation.
Hearing: How we hear anatomy and how it works.
Infrasound making music with infrasonic sounds.
sound as a weapon

EXPERIMENTS:

The reasoning:
Initial discussions within the group spoke about an interest in exploring the effect of sound, particularly the manipulation of the experience of the user/listener.
A combination of recorded (using video camera, ipod, mobile phone and camera) and freeware mp3 sounds, we set about creating a series of atmospheres.
The atmospheres/sound scapes were compiled using imovie and adobe premiere.


The process:

Group discussions lead to a brainstorming session where we identified key words and emotions.
From here the group slit to record a variety of sounds/imagery.
Jules: Workplace, office, transport, city
Lauren: Mechanical, drone/hum, RMIT
Brittany: Animal/wild life, garden, water.
Once collected the group reformed to compile the sound scapes.
In an open and relaxed environment the sounds were sorted into categories and possible complimentary groupings.
Construction began.

The experiments:

1. Used both visuals and sound. Explores the use of blank voids to create distantly recognisable rhythmic effect.
One word to describe: PATTERN


2.Visual/Sound
Exploration of frequency and dynamics.
One word to describe: AVERSION


3. Visuals/sound
Explores stark, void, emptiness.
One word to describe: BANAL


4. Visuals/ sound
Uses soothing and hypnotic imagery juxtaposed with alternating sounds.


5. No visual, a manipulation of the listener. Re-creating an auditory experience of an existing (recognisable) atmosphere…
One word to describe: MISLEADING


PART THREE:

Association to art.
There are amazing sound artists about.
Peruse the links for experimental sound.
Outer Ear festival of sound 2005
new zealand database
Watermeron child-like playfulness in their execution and style.
The Tom Bosely Experience
Sean Kerr Artist of sound, visual, film and other.
Ian John Time Based art maker

1 Comments:

Blogger Malte Wagenfeld said...

Great work group

I really enjoyed your presentation as well.

Looks like you found lots of interesting material.

Your experiments with sound are fantastic; exactly the sort of thing I was hoping for. Keep up the effort.

Re part 3 'What can be drawn from the arts and culture where this set of senses is investigated / called upon etc.' it would have been great had you selected a few example out of the huge databases you linked to and examined / discussed these.

Otherwise a great effort.

8.5/10

Cheers Malte

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