*in progress*

As our project will be  a performance based, we currently doing some good progress on the visuals and the sound. As mention by Ryan on the previous post about our project, we aim to create a collaboration with the students of ASU through performance art.

Firstly, coming up with visuals, we have taken videos of the Grand Canyon on the web for our samples, chop it up a bit, do some programming using Max Msp and here are the results.

Video 1: This is one of our initial idea of juxtaposing Housing Blocks with the Canyon. It looks really beautiful right!

Video 2: Over here, we put two layers of different videos of the Grand Canyon and blend it together. Those noise visible in the videos reminds you of sand doesn’t it!

Video 3: We explore playing with different pattern as well which can help to make the video more interesting and abstract.

Tentatively, on our final visual, we plan to take our own videos of the natural landscape of Arizona when we are there, then process it on site, which make the video more meaningful and purposeful.

Now, for the sound. We have recorded sound of sand through different method of producing sound, for example, kicking sand, pouring of sand and etc. We then put it in Ableton Live to process the sound and add effects to amplify it, adding texture and reverb to create a repetitive and dramatic to it.

Video 4: This is an example of what we have produce.

As you can see, our project is still in progress, and we have come up with things that we want to improve on.

1. The consistent of the sound. We need a primary background sound.

2. Exploration of more different effects on visuals.

3. Rehearsing together to fit the sound and visual more coherently.

Thank you.

Signing off.