sound sculptures
Samples of Soundsculptures:
the Trumpdrone, Plabonga, Stringents
The phonaesthetic Circle.
An interactive, e-level-joy, musical experiment.
- Phonaesthetics is the claim or study of inherent pleasantness or beauty (euphony) or unpleasantness (cacophony) of the sound. Closely related to euphony and cacophony is the concept of consonance and dissonance -
In our interactive sound-study we make use of our current circumstances on e-level: Six workstations, complete with speakers facing into the room.
Each workstation displays a unique, virtual music instrument the user can play. The player determines speed/sound/loudness by rolling over or clicking parts. Visually the instrument changes accordingly; it might move/morph, disintegrate and re-arrange after a while of no interaction.
Six instruments make a perfect combo and will be played on six different machines (using all speakers, creating a surround-sound experience). The composer will keep in mind the modularity as well as the integrity of six sounds. The instruments will sound great by themselves as well as with two or all six. Non-professionals will be able to play together in a band.
Because this is a collaboration between sound and visual, designers might change the appearance of an instrument according to how a sound feels, and the other way around. Work in progress should be an open-mind process and is as important as the end-result.
This project requires a number of different specialties, as open for participation as possible: Sound-designers, actionscript-writers, animators and visual designers. The more “sounds and instruments”, the more fun!
April 18th, 2008 at 3:27 pm
Richard Quan
Apr 17 at 6:12 pm
Very cool. Love the design. I’m missing the sound part of the sound sculpture. How can we add the aural aspect to this?
kirsten
Apr 17 at 4:09 pm
the graphic elements on each of shown illustration represent modulation.
mike
Apr 17 at 4:05 pm
http://www.timestream-arts.com/
mike
Apr 17 at 4:03 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llbtevK7Roc
randy
Apr 17 at 3:58 pm
right….well, i thought what was potentially amazing here is that
you would literally be watching the manifestation of the jam session
so the different instruments would have characteristics that when mixed together would create a new ‘beast”
so you play with your own instrument….and it morphs, changes…
but what does the composite sound of everyone look like?
i can’t imagine if you could figure out the technology of this, it wouldn’t be possible to see a composite
of course, not to be a downer but this seems like a great project for…
MIT
media lab
kirsten
Apr 17 at 12:57 pm
http://levitated.net/daily/levTextSphere.html
kirsten
Apr 17 at 12:56 pm
there could be multiple ways to animate a Soundsculpture: upon touching/clicking a vector, it moves or grows without disintegrating.
upon touching/clicking a pixel, the picture disintegrates, the mouse almost becoming a paintbrush.
good examples:
http://play.natzke.com/
April 21st, 2008 at 10:26 am
June 12th, 2008 at 3:44 pm
Animusic Resonant Chamber
Kelly found this craziness.