Ideas and research for installation/performance
My group Naru, Sam Joe, Josep, Josh
Naru's idea making touch pad to make sound.
Change of plan we can only have four people in group.
Josh and I will be working in this project.
we are still not sure what we want to do for our final project so we are going explore both side of installation and performance.
Installation idea
The SoniColumn -- an interactive sound installation that's one part sci-fi and one part Victoriana-- is the latest work from multimedia artist Jin-You Mok. Part of his MusicBox Project, the piece, as you can no doubt guess, consists of elements designed to mimic a music box in one form or another. The SoniColumn itself works through an array of touch-sensitive LEDs that each emit a unique tone when touched -- the budding musician can then turn a crank to rotate the column and play back his/her composition in its entirety. If you want let loose your inner Thomas Dolby, you can currently check out the SoniColumn at Bitforms gallery in Seoul, South Korea, or catch it's next appearance at Wired's NextFest in NYC come October.
Artist Bruce Munro poses in front of Water-Towers, his latest light and sound installation, in Salisbury Cathedral’s medieval cloisters on January 13, 2011 in Salisbury, England. Located in the south and west cloisters of the 750-year-old Cathedral and on display until the end of February, the installation comprises sixty-nine glowing towers, made from 15,000 stacked recyclable water bottles filled with 30 tonnes of water, illuminated with fibre optics and specially commissioned LED projectors that change colour to music.
http://www.zimbio.com/pictures/qY_mHw7HFKK/Bruce+Munro+Water+Towers+Light+Sound+Installation
Thomas Forsyth has been a busy man recently, working in a commission to design and make free-standing hardware for a permanent, interactive sound installation for Cleethorpes Academy, North East Lincolnshire, UK. The hardware consists of 6 infra-red sensor units and 1 lectern that houses an iPad. The sensor units pick up and track movement. This is all linked to special iPad software created by David Stevens and Simon Desorgher. The equipment will predominantly be used to aid music.
Pendulum Sound Machine is a sound installation created by Kouichi Okamoto as part of an exhibition curated by Designboom, called Yakitate, which is Japanese for ‘freshly baked’. This nice set of pendulums hanging over a record player should sound as good as it looks, but does it?
http://www.purplbrand.com/wordpress/2011/03/27/sound-installation-hardware/
It really is one of those cases in which the form is well thought out, but the function is neglected. A plate just doesn’t sound as well as a lot of other objects could.
Playing the Building is a sound installation in which the infrastructure, the physical plant of the building, is converted into a giant musical instrument. Devices are attached to the building structure — to the metal beams and pillars, the heating pipes, the water pipes — and are used to make these things produce sound. The activations are of three types: wind, vibration, striking. The devices do not produce sound themselves, but they cause the building elements to vibrate, resonate and oscillate so that the building itself becomes a very large musical instrument.
Telic Arts Exchange and the Center for Integrated Media at the California Institute of the Arts present a sound installation by the Korean media artist Ki Chul Kim.
“Sound Looking - Rain” is a sound installation that investigates the nature of perception and representation in relation to the Buddhist concept of emptiness. Suspended from the gallery ceiling is a matrix of audio speakers, wires and monofilament, the audio that fills the space is a sound collage of falling rain. Kim’s sound landscape induces us to float between the opposing forms of sight and sound. Kim also references a formal minimalism as we experience the shifting relationships between sound, speakers, the gallery space and our bodies.
This exhibition is made possible in part by the generous support of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.
There are many installation you can find on the net but i have found these installation most interesting.
The scale of the installation or the simplicity of some of the installation. after talking with Josh if we are going to do installation we want to make it in to interaction installation.
Performance idea
Marina Abramović (Belgrado, Yugoslavia; 30 de noviembre de 1946), artista serbia de performance que empezó su carrera a comienzos de los años 70. Activa por más de tres decádas, recientemente ha sido descrita por sí misma como la "Abuela del arte de la performance".
El trabajo de Abramović explora la relación entre el artista y la audiencia, los límites del cuerpo, y las posibilidades de la mente.
Tunnel Canary is a documentary about an improvised anarchist noise/punk band from Vancouver Canada that formed in 1978 performing live only 26 times before disbanding in 1983- described as neglected outcasts on the scariest , artsiest fringes of the Vancouver punk scene, most punks avoided them and were often being shut down by the general public.
Toshi Makihara creates a sound performance art work using James Fuhrman's sculpture "Revealed Lines of an Ancient Tree. Unknowable" as his sound instrument
Golden Axe: NZ performer. using old keyboard and synth to make live music.
When i was doing research on sound installation and performance, i can help to notice number of female artist compare to male artist.
it made me think about how i feel when i use to watch female artist compare to male playing live. Music industrie is dominate by male artist not because they are better but people seem to be more custom to a idea of male play on stage. If male performer made a mistake on the stage most peoples won't react much but if female made a same mistake most likely she would be bood off the stage.
Idea of our concept
gender issues in performing art.
In class i started to talk about my idea and I was Shocked, he dosen't think there is any gender issues in NZ. he never come across it.
When Josh dosen't believe in the idea of gender issues this could be an interesting and hard topic to use.
Let's challenge myself
The idea of gender issues is still bothering me.
gender stereotype
- Female are not very good at making things
- they are not good with electronic
- woman looks unco on the stage
My very first Synth
The idea of making synth as a woman challenges all the gender stereotype. Woman making electronic component form the scratch and performing live.
http://www.musicfromouterspace.com/analogsynth/YOUR_FIRST_SYNTH/YOUR_FIRST_SYNTH.html
Wow my first synth done, wacky and zany sound ~~~~~~
Two days of buying components, placing them in right place, soldering and trouble shooting.
now i am sue i will use this to perform.
Putting my synth and Josh
what can we do to perform.
http://www.d-touch.org/audio/
Audio d-touch is a collection of applications for real-time musical composition and performance, with very special user interfaces. The collection includes a drum machine and a sampling sequencer, both are controlled by spatially arranging physical objects on an interactive table surface. Each object represents a sound, and its position with respect to the surface is mapped to certain playback parameters. For example, the horizontal position of an object represents the timing of the sound. The system is extremely low cost and now it can be freely and fully downloaded from http://www.d-touch.org/audio. All is needed to get audio d-touch to work is a standard computer (PC or Mac) with a webcam and a printer.
i think this could be useful for the performing, it seems easy to use and it can show interaction between me and Josh.
we have been playing with this idea but it's not working.
we need to look in to different instrument for Josh
I am still kin on gender issues idea and may be he could do something very easy to show idea of man don't have to work hard as woman in music industrie.
computer is easy
the idea of using computer
- he doesn't have to make anything
- using software to make simmer sound to synth
me and Josh been practicing with synth and computer.
Our final performance
