Vibrations captured

Experiment using coloured balls to show chaotic vibrations of music

Please excuse the sound, my camera doesnt capture sound perfectly. The song is Machine Head-Slanderous, one of my favourite songs 

Rubens D'hers

I came across this artist/musician by complete fluke! This guy is such an inspiration. I LOVE how he has captured kinetic art so simply yet interestingly.

http://vimeo.com/50200793


Absolutely insanely brilliant!! I am very excited with my project after seeing this. This is what I have been looking for since september!!

 

This is his work. 'Guitar sounds'

 

 

Same piece of work but from a different angle

I typed in 'art using guitar strings' into google and I came across this website http://www.wikihow.com/Make-Art-from-Guitar-Strings. I found it interesting and I'm going to do a similar experiment to see where it takes me, as the art work is a form of kinetic art.

An artist I've been looking at, Anish Kapoor, uses wax to create works of art. So I decided to try wax out to see if i could get my desired result and seeing wax dry as as I poured it and as music was played loudly, causing the wax to dry in ripples and bumps.

As this was only an experiment that came to mind when I was in the lounge, I wanted to get it down so the idea was fresh in my mind, I later moved into my bedroom with my amplifier.

 

 

 

As the above video shows, the wax didnt dry quickly enough to form ripples or bumps. But the experiment wasnt a complete failure, I will be able to take stills from the video to show how wax bounces and 'vibrates' when poured onto a surface, also you can see the acetate bounce as the poured wax hits it. There are splatters too.

 

 

 

The second video is of the experiment in my bedroom on my amplifier. I had music playing loudly through the amp, placed the sheet of acetate on the grill and then I poured the wax on to the acetate. As you can see from the video, my experiment failed, the wax didnt bounce and jiggle around as i hoped it would. there was no movement in the wax once it was on the acetate. The music didnt effect it in the slightest. 

 

I also used ink mixed with water to try and get a better effect than that above, but alas it didnt succeed either. I've yet to record a video of this.

 

One of my plans is to go home to Clonmel some weekend, and try to capture the same experiment with the use of a bass drum or a tom tom from my drumkit.