Hello!

For the first assignment on 間 MA’s OBSCURE CITY of VOIDS, we had to create a mood box using the sounds that we created. So my group mates are Bala & Qis. Me and Bala did on the same recording and Qis did on the 2nd recording.

Dominant: Xylophone

Sub-dominant: Egg Shaker

Sub-ordinate: Zig Zag Block

At first I was difficult for me to visualise how the mood box can relate to the sound recording. With the help from mind mapping, I started to get ideations on how to execute the mood box.

When I listened to the sound recording, it sounded like a lullaby, which is why I thought of using black. However I did not want everything to be black so I added white in the center of the box.

The small round dots represents the egg shaker, as throughout the recording the egg shaker is a guide for the xylophone and zig zag block.

The black rectangle represents the xylophone. It has different sizes as the xylophone also has different sizes.

The white sphere in the centre represent the zig zag block. To me, the the zig zag block’s sound is like a loop, going back to each other. Hence I interpret it in a sphere. And it is created by a broken plane as it is inspired by the zig zag block’s texture.

All the element are in a straight line as the sound wave height does not change drastically.

Feedback given: The number of element in my mood box should be the same counting as the recording.