The brief: Produce an interactive or performative experience with sound at its core.
This brief aims to expose us to the underlying data within a sound. You may be thinking, how can sound store data? When you hear a sound you are used to, such as a police car siren, it is engraved on our heads that this sound comes with notations of emergency causing you to react. Say if you were driving, you'd give may to the police car. This is an example of how data may be stored in sound we hear. However, the brief aims to expose us to a different type of data, such as the sound waves, or a sound number values.
Oliver had asked us to bring in a sound from an experience we had during the weekend. My experience was cleaning my room, and the sound was of a distant vacuum cleaner running. The task was to manipulate the sound using Audacity sound editing software, changing the tempo, pitch and frequency essentially making the sound unrecognisable from what it original was.
Here is the original sound:
And here is the edited sound:
The last task was to change the sound from its currenct state to a sound which sparks happiness. This was my attempt:
I then started to think about what I wanted to do with the project. One Idea Kasia and I thought of was exposing the sound of photos. It's weird to think that each photo has their own sound but, how is that possible? It's a still image right? Yes, that's correct however there are programs available which turn photos into sound by analysing the pixels in the photo. PhotoSonic does this and it's what I used for the example below.
In the video below I changed the values for the lowest and highest frequency. Notice how the sound dramatically changes from the original above.
I think it would be interesting to take random photos which demonstrate a certain activity. For example the image in the video shows me studying. We would then assign this activity to that specific sound.
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