Monday, 23 May 2011
24 Hour Soundscape : Surround Sound
With an 11 port surround sound speaker set, this video will represent 24 hour soundscape of a Jetty off the Southbank. Walk around the speakers to hear each part.
SURROUND SOUND TRACK: from April Hudson on Vimeo.
SURROUND SOUND TRACK: from April Hudson on Vimeo.
24 Hour Representation of space: Inspiration
JANET CARDIFF : 40 PART MOET
"While listening to a concert you are normally seated in front of the choir, in traditional audience position. With this piece I want the audience to be able to experience a piece of music from the viewpoint of the singers. Every performer hears a unique mix of the piece of music. Enabling the audience to move throughout the space allows them to be intimately connected with the voices. It also reveals the piece of music as a changing construct. As well I am interested in how sound may physically construct a space in a sculptural way and how a viewer may choose a path through this physical yet virtual space.
I placed the speakers around the room in an oval so that the listener would be able to really feel the sculptural construction of the piece by Tallis. You can hear the sound move from one choir to another, jumping back and forth, echoing each other and then experience the overwhelming feeling as the sound waves hit you when all of the singers are singing. ”
"While listening to a concert you are normally seated in front of the choir, in traditional audience position. With this piece I want the audience to be able to experience a piece of music from the viewpoint of the singers. Every performer hears a unique mix of the piece of music. Enabling the audience to move throughout the space allows them to be intimately connected with the voices. It also reveals the piece of music as a changing construct. As well I am interested in how sound may physically construct a space in a sculptural way and how a viewer may choose a path through this physical yet virtual space.
I placed the speakers around the room in an oval so that the listener would be able to really feel the sculptural construction of the piece by Tallis. You can hear the sound move from one choir to another, jumping back and forth, echoing each other and then experience the overwhelming feeling as the sound waves hit you when all of the singers are singing. ”
24 hours representation
I have begun sound designing on the 11 Tracks I recorded at the Jetty. These tracks represent 24 hours of the Jetty soundscape. Once I have one overall master track it can be used for a potential Surround Sound installation at show. Below shows the program and data input I have been using.
Saturday, 14 May 2011
Surround Sound Tracks
I plan to make an audio surround sound track with 7 outlets - one for each amplification device used in the analogue cinema installation. If I manage to create this track, I can reproduce the soundscape experienced upon the jetty in another place.
Monday, 9 May 2011
ANALOGUE CINEMA // AMPLIFY
There remains something ultimately elusive about sound, about its complex movements in space and time, about the ways in which our listening and talking bodies perceive it and discuss it. In this project I have attempted to listen out for those whispers, cries squeaks and rumbles that lie beyond ‘only the heard’ but also to appreciate sound as a meaning; as an awareness but as humor and provocation. The aim is to showcase the diverse meaning of sound by making it become the emphasis. The work produced based upon this study, is to be experienced in it’s specific location, therefore it is about the place, reflects the qualities of the place and relies upon the place, to provide input to the process and therefore by its presence contribute a the dimension of the place. Through the use of an analogue cinema upon the jetty, I aim to encourage those to stop and listen. By installing amplifying devices made from piping & instrument parts and periscopes, the project transfers the spatial experience of what lies beneath us to an audible and visual level we can access. Immersing the viewer within the live showing of the Thames, creates a performative , cinematic, multi layered spatial experience. This practice is significant, as I believe it engenders an experience making the subconsciously known, the mundane revealing itself as a surreal encounter of the world we live in and take for granted. By amplifying, framing and adorning the magical beauty of the rhythmic yet unpredictable power of the Thames, this process generates a suspended moment in time. As a generation moving image and digital media surrounds us, I believe the use of an analogue approach questions what cinema is. The results seem to be more prominent because it is not using technology; it is simply amplifying certain qualities of the space the viewer is already within, manipulating their understanding of the site. There remains something ultimately elusive about sound, about its complex movements in space and time, about the ways in which our listening and talking bodies perceive it and discuss it. |
SHOW?
This ultra-miniature black case has a built-in GSM bug spy listening device which means that you can silently dial in to this unit from anywhere in the world and hear what is being said within a 7 metre range from the bug. I could use this within the final show to transfer a live soundscape to another place. Perhaps I could also use a periscope out of a window?
Tuesday, 3 May 2011
Monday, 2 May 2011
ACCENTUATE: 24 Hour Thames
The Thames is observed as being a hideous blight and a wonderment. In looking to highlight the invisible differences which are actually quite visible , from season to season, depending on the different stretch of water and all the different weather conditions, I hope to accentuate the poetic beauty of the Thames. The routine, regularity which contrasts with the constant varying activity.
I have developed a collection of audio recording taken over 24 hours of the water - highlighting the changes of pace, beauty and power of the water. I am intrigued by creating an audio installation with 24 speakers, each playing one individual track. As the viewer slowly walks around the circle, they can here the individual contrasting tracks - but as they come into the middle will experience a 24 hour surround sound representation.
24 hour Thames Audio Surround Test from April Hudson on Vimeo.
I have developed a collection of audio recording taken over 24 hours of the water - highlighting the changes of pace, beauty and power of the water. I am intrigued by creating an audio installation with 24 speakers, each playing one individual track. As the viewer slowly walks around the circle, they can here the individual contrasting tracks - but as they come into the middle will experience a 24 hour surround sound representation.
24 hour Thames Audio Surround Test from April Hudson on Vimeo.
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