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Interesting Finds
https://garethleaney.wordpress.com/2010/12/04/turner-prize-2010-susan-philipsz/
In this piece the artist recorded herself singing 3 different versions of an Irish ballad (a song about a sailor who drowned himself and returned as a soul to bade farewell to his loved one) and playing them underneath bridges in Glasgow.
I like that it is not an exhibited piece and she used the environment to evoke emotions from Read more →
Sound Art Interesting Finds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWtatUi9gK0
Milind Talunkar Performing Jaltarang
Jal tarang is an Indian melodic percussion instrument. It consists of a set of ceramic or metal bowls tuned with water. The bowls are played by striking the edge with beaters, one in each hand.
what amazed me is that even the simplest stuff can play the melodic sound. Art is everywhere only if you are willing to explore.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__YdjypIZ_o
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Sound Art Reading Assignment
What is sound?
Sound is a form of energy that creates the feeling of hearing. Sound exists in wavelengths and can be transmitted through all three states of matter before reaching our ears to leave an audio effect on us. Humans can hear sound waves with frequencies between 20 Hz and 20 kHz, and the frequencies can be adjusted to even have selective hearing Read more →
Foundation 4D- Reading Assignment
Pre-Seminar Task
Impulse is an interactive sound art installation from the collaboration between CS Design and Toronto-based Lateral Office, on the Streets of Montreal. It’s an installation of 30 interactive lighted seesaws. It requires 2 people to be on the seesaw to activate it. Once activated it will begin to produce sound resulting in various musical harmonies when as more seesaws are Read more →
Sound – Reading Assignment
What is sound?
Physically, sound is vibrations that travel through the air or another medium and can be heard when they reach a person’s or animal’s ear. In other words, it is An aural component that almost every activity in the world has, music, film, video etc. In art, sound refers to music which is all organized sound and silence.
How has it Read more →
Sound Art - Assignment
What is sound?
Google defines sound as vibrations that travel trough a medium that can be heard. Sound can be found in almost all sort of activities and can exist in many different forms. In the real world, sound can be treated as just unpleasant noise or the by-product of an activity, while in the artistic world, sound artistes Read more →
4D: Seminar Questions
Sound fundamentally encompasses any activity or object that comprises of an aural component, and that as Max Neuhas says, comprises of almost everything in the world. Sound could be created from the smoothing melodies of classical music to the jarring Read more →
READING ASSIGNMENT: SOUND ART
What is sound?
Sound can include many things. some of which includes music kinetic sculpture instruments conceptual art sound effect and much more. Edgard Varese defines sound as all organize sounds. In a performance piece 443, he demonstrated that silence is also a sound. On the other hand, Paul DeMarinis argue that there are three parts to any sound recorded.The first Read more →
Pre seminar questions
The first artwork that I chose is Electronic Superhighway by Nam Jun Paik. This is a 51 screen installation in the shape of the USA map. Nam Jun Paik aims to explore the relation of mass media and how it affects humans. The 51 screen installation plays a different video on each screen. Paik speading up and slowing down the video, Read more →
Sound Arts: Reading Assignment
What is sound?
Sound is the wavelength and vibrations we hear transmitted from everyday things we see, hear and touch. According to the article, almost all activities in the world has an aural component. There’s 4 different kind of sounds found in the article. Namely sound art, sound scape, sound sculpture and sound design.
How has it been used in society?
Sounds are everywhere around us Read more →