Monthly Archives: November 2011
Animated Community Diagram
Animation by Zack Wolder
Field Diagram (new)
This diagram is an improvement on the “category map.” I am now referring to it as a “field diagram” because it is visually mapping out my field of research rather than disconnected “categories.” It lays out a field of research and relationships within the field. A cyclical and diagrammatic flow contextualize a series of concepts within this specific project – “Networked Music Cultures” (for the time being).
Speculation (of a design)
In an attempt to become more suggestive and provocative, I have elaborated on this diagram; adding a greater sense of movement and tactility.
Table design
I am beginning to design a table based on my experiments with surface transducers. Here is a preliminary grasshopper study where the points in the image act as positions for each surface transducer. The relationship is set up that there are 2 “low” frequency speakers, 2 “mid” frequency, and 2 “high” frequency speakers, where the thicker the material, the high pitch frequencies will be pronounced. Inversely the thinner the material is the lower the frequencies will be that are pronounced.
Preliminary Video Documentation (surface transducer test)
This is video documentation of a materiality with surface transducers (contact speakers). I was testing the different resonant properties of plywood and varying thicknesses. Analysis of the documentation will be coming shortly.
A Compositional Test
Here is a 1 minute (more or less) of a compositional test using field recordings taken while working on a project called “Sound-Portrait”. This work used an automated system built into a hat that recorded audio for 3 seconds every hour. This composition takes clips of those recordings and rearranges them into a “song.” What I am trying to explore here are the potentials for field recordings to be sampled and mixed into musical compositions, much like Matthew Herbert does in his “One Pig” album.
Listen here:
composition-test-02
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