16mm sound film - "A COLOUR BOX" GB 1935 Animation
i thought that this animation was fun to watch because of how many instruments there are in the music piece. It makes it that there's even more sound to draw. its quite chaotic but its enjoyable to watch all the different patterns and shapes and also the bright colours. not only the shapes but the colour can represent sound too. In my opinion if a sound was deep it wouldn't be a bright yellow i see more of a dark grey or a dark colour palette
MTV - Len Lye - Swinging the lambeth walk
brian eno visual music
"The emphasis in Eno’s art school education was on “process over product”, it was the height of the 1960s avant-garde philosophy that the residue left by an artistic gesture was less impor- tant than the conceptual nature of the gesture itself."
On Listening
"Classical music works around a body of “refined” sounds – sounds that are separate from the sounds of the world, pure and musical. There is a sharp distinction between “music” and “noise,” just as there is a distinction between the musician and the audience. I like blurring those distinctions – I like to work with all the complex sounds on the way out to the horizon, to pure noise, like the hum of London. If you sit in Hyde Park just far enough away from the traffic so that you don’t perceive any of its specific details, you just hear the average of the whole thing. And it’s such a beautiful sound. For me that’s as good as going to a concert hall at night "
During my primary research i went to archway park and listened to the sounds, i sat in 3 different locations in the park and i was able to hear distinctive sounds between the 3 areas. Some had more children shouting or other places it was dead silent with only the sounds of the trees rustling. I found it quite interesting how we normally block out all of these separate sounds within our environment because we're just so used to it.
Eno’s ideas about listening to the environment as music are shared by modern composer Pauline Oliveros, who has used such concepts as the basis of actual pieces. The instructions for the fifth of her Sonic Meditations (1974) read as follows: “Take a walk at night. Walk so silently that the bottoms of your feet become ears.” Sonic Meditations XVII is somewhat simi- lar: “
1. Enhance or paraphrase the auditory environment so perfectly that a listener cannot distinguish between the real sounds of the environment and the performed sounds.
2. Become performers by not performing.”
i find these almost as a form of meditation, how my brain was able to translate sounds with only using my pen. This idea is very personal because for example if there were birds singing i would've drawn what i interpreted and if another person was next to me was hearing the same thing they would've drawn something completely different.
first drawing that i liked
i made a digital version of the drawing above
through experimentation in my book i ended up not liking this drawing if i were to make it into a vinyl. i don't think it represents a dog bark as much and i wanted to use my dogs as the subject. i just felt that this feels like its to calm and it needs to look a lot more chaotic.
this is the digitised version i create in illustrator
I liked the 3d aspect of this installation. It also reminded me of my drawing above and i had this idea that maybe instead of vinyl id use acrylic like this. I could make my dog sit and hang this in front of her making it look like its coming from her in a 3d way
second drawing that i liked
experiments of me trying to take pictures of my dogs with my vinyl (videos down below)
I decided to take videos of them because it was easier than just taking a still picture of them. This way, i could take the video and watch through them and screen shot the moments that could be potential videos. I took several videos of me knocking on the door and filming my dogs reactions. At first i decided to be the postman because they always react to him loudly. i posted a fake letter through the front door so i could get a genuine reaction. This was also an opportunity to study their behaviour because after i recorded all these videos i had come up with another idea i wanted to create to go along with the vinyl. I wanted to create a moving image piece of a pov of one of my dogs running towards the door. So we get a pov of how it feels to run towards and bark.
1st try
this is when i realised that making my dog sit in front of the door still was never going to happen and i just decided to make them bark at the door
2nd try
4th try
making it seem like the postman is here. they seem to react to this attempt more aggressively
Similar to what i want to create for the moving image piece
"A dog's eye view" - Akron Children's Hospital video
projects that i like in the presentation - how sounds can be visualised
what is synesthesia?
"Synesthesia is a condition in which one sense (for example, hearing) is simultaneously perceived as if by one or more additional senses such as sight. Another form of synesthesia joins objects such as letters, shapes, numbers or people's names with a sensory perception such as smell, color or flavour"
source: https://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/syne.html
study of the Consciousness:
Many researchers are interested in synesthesia because it may reveal something about human consciousness. One of the biggest mysteries in the study of consciousness is what is called the "binding problem." No one knows how we bind all of our perceptions together into one complete whole. For example, when you hold a flower, you see the colors, you see its shape, you smell its scent, and you feel its texture. Your brain manages to bind all of these perceptions together into one concept of a flower. Synesthetes might have additional perceptions that add to their concept of a flower.
Seeing Sound: How Synesthesia Can Change Our Thinking | Annie Dickinson | TEDxYouth@Lancaster
i came across this condition while researching and i actually didn't even know this condition existed. in the ted tae above i got a sense of excitement when annie says she has a great interest for music, she can not only hear the melodies but see the music in the air with her eyes. I can imagine this would only enhance her interest in music more because she gets a greater understanding. i also found it interesting how long you can go without knowing things are different for you. Our existence is strange but you wouldn't question it to that level because you think you know it's real.
my drawings from my locations
What Are Dogs Trying to Say When They Bark?
the reason why i went with the second drawing with all the arrows. i liked this because i thought it represented the way my dogs bark more accurately. i was also reading the meanings between different dog barks. The point below fits in with my dog barking and i also think that this excitement can be seen in the drawing
- The meaning of frequency: Sounds that are repeated often, at a fast rate, indicate a degree of excitement and urgency. Sounds that are spaced out, or not repeated, usually indicate a lower level of excitement. A dog giving an occasional bark or two at the window is only showing mild interest in something. A dog barking in multiple bursts and repeating them many times a minute is signaling that he feels that the situation is important and perhaps even a potential crisis.
source: https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/canine-corner/201103/what-are-dogs-trying-say-when-they-bark
in other words my dogs are warning me there's something suspicious at the door
Barking is an alarm sound. There is no threat of aggression signaled by the dog unless it is lower-pitched and mixed with growls.
3rd try
note* my dog notices my phone and jumps on it at the end