Our first assessed task was to create a work that responds to the theme of Sound and Space – Mine is entitled – Glass.
Initially, I attempted to work with echo and thought that a church would be an interesting environment for this theme. However, when attempting to complete my sound experiments within this environment it didn’t give me the effect that I had hoped.
My sound experiments involved working with water, and the ways in which water changes the noises depending on its confinement. This is especially true when the water is contained in glass. I then decided that the ‘space’ could be the glass rather than the environment surrounding the glass. However, I still needed distance to create an environment.
I used different volumes of water in multiple glasses before striking them with a piece of metal attached to a string from high above. This created an abundance of different tones at random times as I would swing the pendulum at random. I then started to explore different ways in which the sound would be affected by water and glass.
Reflecting on my work, I feel like experimenting with space using different environments successfully would have created a more cohesive narrative of the sound in a space piece rather than just a series of sound experiments.
They are available to listen in the folder at the top of the page.
Rim
Fizz
Tone tapping distance
Glass
Tone changing glass as filling
Random tone 1
Water from a height
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