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Sound Arts: Interesting Finds
Christine Sun Kim was born deaf. She created the Game of Skill 2.0 to show the audience how much effort is needed to do a simple everyday job such as listening. Audience are to interact with the showcase by moving in the line provided by Christine. As they move along the lines, the handheld device will start to emit Read more →
Sound Art - Research
Whispering in the Leaves by Chris Watson is a sound installation that allows viewers to listen to mysterious sounds commonly found in Central and South American rainforests. Chris is a sound recordist who had spent years recording and compelling sounds in different rainforests around the world. This installation consists of two parts – Dawn and Dusk. In the morning, Read more →
4D: Interesting Finds
Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller – The Murder of Crows (2011)
The Murder of Crows is a large installation that houses 98 audio seakers mounted around the space on stands, chairs and the wall. The structure of the piece aims to mirror the illogical but connected juxtapositions that we experience in the dream world. One soundscape moves into another Read more →
Sound Arts - Interesting Finds.
MOMA Sound Art Museum
MOMA installed a 1961 sound art work by Yoko Ono in its atrium. It consisted of a live standing microphone and some extremely loud amplifiers. Anyone passing through the atrium was invited to stand in front of the mike and follow the instructions in the title: that is, scream. The piece stayed in place for months, Read more →
Reading Assignment - Sound Art.
What is sound?
Sound is basically multiple layers of vibrations that travel through the air or another medium that can be heard when they reach us. In the world, sounds are anything that can produce or can be used to produce noise. In the world of arts, fine art, sounds is understood as more than just noise, it’s music. There’s popular Read more →
The Pre-Seminar Questions
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Dialog by Zul Mahmod
Zul Mahmod creates and codes a timely sequence of solenoids hitting on copper pipes of different length and thickness to create a sound. Being a site specific installation, Zul confronts the audience in a long underground passageway towards the Esplanade. The audience is then confront on their midway journey by the sound they hear from the artworks Read more →
The Seminar Questions!
What is sound?
I suppose upon reading Neuhaus’ article, sound itself is movement of waves in the air which becomes audible to an individual. Sound when composed in a lyrical sense would be contextualised as “music”, which with the workings of time signatures and proper rhythmic structure and symmetry bar structures would also be known as “a different way to tell Read more →
Sound Art: Reading Assignment
1. What is sound?
From the article, sound is an aural component in almost all activities in the world. It is created through the vibrations, and can be arranged to become jn music. It is prominent in all activities, with some of the most popular form of arranged sound includes music, kinetic sculptures, sound effects, instruments, etc.
Sound Art: Interesting Finds
Title: Raising Spirits and Restoring Souls
Artist: Zul Mahmod
Url: https://vimeo.com/143703590
Commissioned by the Singapore Art Museum, this installation is made out of amplifiers, piano/bass/guitar strings and copper pipes. It creates a familiar sound of banging pipers, but was arranged in such a way that it created something that sounds like music, instead of random Read more →
Sound Art - Reading Assignment
Seminar Questions
What is sound?Sound, as it is created, propagates amongst the hard Newtonian billiard balls of matter.
There are several layers of representations that be can classified as a sound.
Firstly, a recorded sound is one that was intentionally recorded. Secondly, are the additional sounds as a result of the environment and finally the sound of a recording apparatus itself.
How has Read more →