We have been working at Webster primary school for part two of Noise Orchestra. This time we are concentrating on electronics and making circuits to produce sound using light theremins and paper cylindrical stencils. Using turntables and bike lights we are able to spin hand cut stencils and shapes and shine a light directly through the paper shapes onto the photocell. Continue reading “Noise Orchestra Paper Sound”
Author: punktzwei
Transmission Forms
Using my sketchbook to document forms and shapes on my recent research trips to the National Media Museum and the Communications Gallery at MOSI has become a means to generate sculpural ideas in metal. The forms on this piece are all taken from objects to do with transmission and broadcasting which I made into paper stencils so I could rearrange and test out the interplay of the shapes and how they might balance. I’m also thinking of these in sheet metal and how these would sound on impact.
Blake Echo
Audacity databending experiments using echo effects to manipulate and intentionally glitch masterpieces such as this example Ancient of Days by William Blake.
Sonochromatic Databending
Transposing musical notes to colours using Harbissions Sonochromatic scale was the starting point for this databending process. The imagery is made in response to ‘Hopopono’ by Manchester band GoGo Penguin and started as fragments of painted paper (transposed B flat notes to colours) before being manipulated in photoshop and databended through Audacity where I applied various sonic filters and exported the image files. Continue reading “Sonochromatic Databending”
Prototype Sound Sculpture
Metal work forays this week, i’m getting to grips with the equipment and processes of bending, cutting, welding and working towards developing a series of sound sculptures. Steel on this scale is quite resonant, the 3mm metal rods descending through the sound whole activate the sphere. Next stage is to start to mic these up with contact microphones and begin recording and think about methods of suspension.
Death of a Piano
The piano parts were salvaged from a local arts centre who were throwing away this old piano. With instructions to break it up and put it into the skip, the piano was thrown down the stairs. I recorded the sound of this act and thought of all the hundreds of people who would have played this instrument and the different tunes and memories embeddded within its components. Continue reading “Death of a Piano”
Fragments Rewind
The coming of industry, scientific inventions, man and machine and unsung art heroes comprise this fragmented film collage that plays with notions of linear time lines and a prescribed canon of art history.
Glitching the Whitworth
Glitch art was key to the social media campaign in the build up to the Whitworth reopening. Using archive imagery of the gallery and the artworks themselves, I have been experimenting with different approaches to glitching imagery, from online apps to playing around with code. Here is one of the videos we used that included pictures of young people on an outreach photography day in Manchester, pieces from the textile collection and Whitworth park.
VICKY CLARKE 