{"id":72637,"date":"2022-09-24T01:24:42","date_gmt":"2022-09-24T05:24:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/15-104\/f2022\/?p=72637"},"modified":"2022-09-24T01:28:56","modified_gmt":"2022-09-24T05:28:56","slug":"looking-outward-04-sound-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/15-104\/f2022\/2022\/09\/24\/looking-outward-04-sound-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking Outward-04 Sound Art"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Link: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_gk9n-2lBb8&ab_channel=MediaArtTube<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I looked at the project The Prouduct – Soundmachines, where it is three rotating disks mimicking the form of a vinyl disk player. Different from a traditional disk player, the disk contains visual information displayed through color and black and white patterns and the receiver reads these patterns and returns a sound for each color. The project includes three of these disks, each holding different visual information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What I really admire about the project is its abstraction of sound, where in many music software, sound is displayed in a sonogram, which is often harder for people of comprehend. However, the abstraction of the audial qualities into easy-to-understand visual patterns make very simple for one to understand the audio qualities which otherwise is illegible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The algorithm as the description as said, “translates concentric visual patterns into control signals.” I assume the receiver would reads the color values on the disk as the disk rotates in concentric motion, in the algorithm, each color would represent a different signal input into a music software, and outputs a sound through the software.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The artist’s sensibilities with both visual and audible qualities is clearly expressed in the project, where the artist uses simple geometric shapes to create a symphony of sounds. The artists is also most likely a follow of digital music, where the output comes from a music sequencer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n