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.
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