Poon Wan Yi Doris 51468942
Title
Sound Flow
Category
Sound Installation
Adviser
Dr. Linda Lai
"Sound Flow" is a sound installation. And it is a sculpture with eight hidden speakers. Constructed by the water pipes and the fittings, different sounds are converted in the sculpture. With the mechanisms of the material, it creates a particularly spatial sound effect. Audiences can wander around and listen to the sounds in different locations.
Played sounds are related to the pipes. With the different generating methods, the work expresses new points of view and makes audiences look at the object in the different way.
Objectives
This project is based on my personal interest on objects.
For me, objects have different meanings to the people. The relationship between the object and the people depends on the experience. How you experience can affect people's imagination and notion on the objects.
Creating a new experience is the key to make changes on the objects. I want to take this project as the beginning to make people to think of the objects.
Theoretical Research
In order to have a deeper understanding on objects, I am going to review some related theories. The theories offer more possibilities of viewing objects. "Reading things: The alibi of use" by Neil Cummings encourages people to look at the objects' real usages, instead of the proper one. It mentioned one of the common perspectives on viewing things - Representational Hegemony, which suggests people focusing on its representation and think of the designers and producers' idea and thought. Cummings condemned the objects presented to their fate as sign. The real usages are users' responses. Therefore, it is important that we re-appropriate the objects to express ourselves.
The project is a sound sculpture. Different sounds will be played in loop. They are related to the object, water pipes. Putting the related sounds into the work aims to present the object in a different way. To have a more complete inversion, audience need to have a new kind of perception. Pierre Schaeffer 's Sound Object offers us a solution. It suggests people taking the recording as a individual sound piece, instead of thinking the sound sources. Through the "acousmatic listening", viewers can go beyond the usage to the other aspects.
To sum up, my research focuses on the perception of viewing things. It provide a thorough picture for me to review my proposal in creating a new experience.
Technical Research
I have made some research on the material. I used the grey water pipes, which are mainly for sewage disposal. It is because its weight is lighter than the PVC white one. And it is easy for me to make a free-standing sculpture. Water pipes are joint by the fittings. There are wide ranges of angles. And I can create irregular shape without other materials.
For the audio part, I will use Max MSP as the controlling program and FirePod as the interface. FirePod consists of 8 outputs, so the maximum of the speakers are 8. I will place the speaker in the different point of the sculpture. Due to size of the speakers, I will made the speakers on my own.
Schedule
Feb
1st Proposal
Mar
Research
Final Proposal
Apr
Production
Apr 18
Research Theoretical Text Submission
Apr 29
Presentation
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