Tuesday, 29 January 2013
Thursday, 17 January 2013
Statement of Intent 9th January,2013
I started off the project thinking about how I could integrate music into the theme and try to make what I was doing as original as I possibly could. I looked at how space is a vacuum, therefore no sound can travel, and so I scrapped that idea and decided to try out vibration within a sense of space.
I explored the idea of physical vibration, though the use of coloured balls vibrating on a speaker and although the experiment was a success, I didn't get the results I wanted for it. So I decided to move further into the vibrations concept and I briefly touched base with sonar, how animals and submarines can detect movement and objects in the sea. But was drawn away from the concept straight away, through the guidance of one of my lecturers, who told me that my original idea of vibrations would better suit me.
I decided therefore, to explore how vibrations and sound waves affect the space around them. I opted to experiment with elastic bands and paint, creating a box where chaotic motions were created from a physical force, with different tensions. This was a success and I continued further, carrying on the concept but experimenting with music.
I had recorded songs on my laptop, my own works, and I print screened the images of the pieces playing. I enlarged the sound waves created to give a more abstract but clear portrayal of how each note is played as it is played. I began to experiment with the use of print and 3D media, creating a series of coloured and black prints and some wire pieces representing a physical vibration as it is created, and how it continues on until it comes to a stop. I created some with normal wire and others with guitar strings. I also used the acetate I had used for printing to help represent my pieces, feeling they would give them more character.
I plan to create a 3D, freestanding piece made from aluminium or steel bars, mimicking the motion in which the sound waves of my own have created.
I explored the idea of physical vibration, though the use of coloured balls vibrating on a speaker and although the experiment was a success, I didn't get the results I wanted for it. So I decided to move further into the vibrations concept and I briefly touched base with sonar, how animals and submarines can detect movement and objects in the sea. But was drawn away from the concept straight away, through the guidance of one of my lecturers, who told me that my original idea of vibrations would better suit me.
I decided therefore, to explore how vibrations and sound waves affect the space around them. I opted to experiment with elastic bands and paint, creating a box where chaotic motions were created from a physical force, with different tensions. This was a success and I continued further, carrying on the concept but experimenting with music.
I had recorded songs on my laptop, my own works, and I print screened the images of the pieces playing. I enlarged the sound waves created to give a more abstract but clear portrayal of how each note is played as it is played. I began to experiment with the use of print and 3D media, creating a series of coloured and black prints and some wire pieces representing a physical vibration as it is created, and how it continues on until it comes to a stop. I created some with normal wire and others with guitar strings. I also used the acetate I had used for printing to help represent my pieces, feeling they would give them more character.
I plan to create a 3D, freestanding piece made from aluminium or steel bars, mimicking the motion in which the sound waves of my own have created.
Sunday, 6 January 2013
So, been thinking about potential finishing pieces. I have at least one decent idea in mind, though I can not manage to upload a picture of my own recorded works.
The basis of this idea revolves around music demos I have recorded on my laptop. I plan to take these soundwaves recordings, and make them into a free standing piece of art, made out of metal bent over each other, in a zig zag sort of pattern and crossing other pieces of metal doing the same thing, perhaps making a tower out of soundwaves, therefore, the soundwaves are affecting the space around them and are also occupied within the area.
Perhaps putting an old speaker head on the floor space beneath the soundwaves will cause the piece to be more effective.
The basis of this idea revolves around music demos I have recorded on my laptop. I plan to take these soundwaves recordings, and make them into a free standing piece of art, made out of metal bent over each other, in a zig zag sort of pattern and crossing other pieces of metal doing the same thing, perhaps making a tower out of soundwaves, therefore, the soundwaves are affecting the space around them and are also occupied within the area.
Perhaps putting an old speaker head on the floor space beneath the soundwaves will cause the piece to be more effective.
Friday, 4 January 2013
Havent really been sure what to write on here, but I guess that I'll state what I've been doing.
At the moment and over Christmas I've been trying to come up with a new idea on how and where I can take this project, so far I havent been able to come up with anything... but I'm still working, been making things out of wire and I have an idea for making a free standing piece too.
I plan to make a free standing piece out of pieces of aluminium or steel. My aim is to bend the metal to create a piece that mimics the way in which sound travels, ie sound waves that I have recorded using my laptop.
During November and December, I was doing print making and making things out of wire. I had to first scratch out the sound waves, I recorded, on acetate and print them using oil based ink. After I had printed individual images, I chose to print each print on top of each other, as the card I was using was still wet with water. My results were interesting. The image I had printed was slightly haired, giving off an effect, which made me think of the ghost notes in drumming, or a reverberating string.
With my wire experiments, I've been making sound waves/ or shock waves that are easily interacted with by people viewing the piece. The basic idea behind it is, if someone was walking around the exhibition space, they would walk into the pieces and if they were to look up at the piece, they would see these shock waves riding up the wire giving off the illusion that they had set off the shock waves and that they werent there.
At the moment and over Christmas I've been trying to come up with a new idea on how and where I can take this project, so far I havent been able to come up with anything... but I'm still working, been making things out of wire and I have an idea for making a free standing piece too.
I plan to make a free standing piece out of pieces of aluminium or steel. My aim is to bend the metal to create a piece that mimics the way in which sound travels, ie sound waves that I have recorded using my laptop.
During November and December, I was doing print making and making things out of wire. I had to first scratch out the sound waves, I recorded, on acetate and print them using oil based ink. After I had printed individual images, I chose to print each print on top of each other, as the card I was using was still wet with water. My results were interesting. The image I had printed was slightly haired, giving off an effect, which made me think of the ghost notes in drumming, or a reverberating string.
With my wire experiments, I've been making sound waves/ or shock waves that are easily interacted with by people viewing the piece. The basic idea behind it is, if someone was walking around the exhibition space, they would walk into the pieces and if they were to look up at the piece, they would see these shock waves riding up the wire giving off the illusion that they had set off the shock waves and that they werent there.
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