There are two main ideas that I have for the spatialising and exhibiting unit in the initial stages.
- Idea 1 has stemmed from an Ableton project that I have been working on throughout the summer
- Idea 2 has stemmed from the research into cymatics that I was doing last year
Idea 1:
I’m not sure what to call this Ableton file yet, it’s not quite a song, it currently loops indefinitely and feels like a place. Let’s go with soundscape. Over the summer I got my self a copy of Ableton 12 and have been spending so much time learning and gaining a deeper understanding of how everything works there. This soundscape is one of the projects that I was working on, however, it felt different, out of place with the other pieces that I had made. Where the others grew and morphed as I experimented, naturally leading to their arrangement, this piece, Organism, I can’t seem to wrap my head around how I am going to arrange it. It’s like all the tracks are in a delicate balance that shifts and sways as you take it in.
It should be interesting to see how spatialising will affect my perspective of this piece.
Idea 2:
This carries on from where I left off last year with the speaker, mirror and laser.
- To keep things kind of simple, this should be a piece for 4 speakers
- Lasers should be pointed towards the speakers in a way so that they converge into one point
- This point can be wall/ceiling/floor depending on where the viewer is situated
- Each speaker should be playing its own frequency or frequencies
- The frequencies should be chosen with the visual aspect in mind
I like the concept for this piece, I think there is certainly something to explore here. I think it would definitely be interesting if all the frequencies were fluctuating, giving the final shape some real organic movements.
User operated frequencies/LFO?