just watch…
Aug
05
Aug
01
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Skeuomorph |ˈskjuːə(ʊ)mɔːf|noun an object or feature which imitates the design of a similar artefact in another material. DERIVATIVES skeuomorphic |-ˈmɔːfɪk|adjective ORIGIN late 19th cent.: from Greek skeuos ‘container, implement’ + morphē ‘form’. Taken from Apple’s Dictionary application (version 2.2) The title of this post sums things up and you always need a name for something right? Perhaps …
Jul
03
Daisy Mould
Saturday the 2nd of July was the day that my Daisy Mould arrived. This is made of silicon rubber and is the ‘negative’ shape of what was first made in clay. The design is split in to 3 parts, the daisy head, stem and then the base. Each can be cast in ice and I …
Jun
28
Masaru Emoto
http://www.freedomcrowsnest.org/viewtopic.php?t=4601 I found the above link after having an amazing conversation with a collegue Jonathan Knox who brought to my attention the work of Masaru Emoto. See what you think ?…
Jun
20
Time…
I’ve had this idea due to my ice experiments, that I can control ‘time stretching’ of audio by controlling the temperature of the water. This I discovered by melting one piezo after another in the same bowl. Clearly after each cube has melted the average temperature of the water in the bowl will have dropped, …
Jun
15
Things within Things within Things… Golden Ratios
Just watch. This was always on my mind as a means to arrange my score, present the sections and arrange things by the same proportions that govern our bodies. I don’t want to be absolute about scales dimensions and or ratios, but nevertheless having things within things within things has always intrigued me, and brings …
Jun
13
Piezo Melt Phase 02
An updated and filtered performance of frozen Piezos melting in a glass bowl this time. Notice the longer time taken on the second performance as the water temperature has decreased due to the first performance. Obvious to state and quite clear to hear.
Jun
13
H, E, F.
Here’s a quick link about George Brecht and ‘Drip Music’. I discovered these ideas and many more interesting things via reading the book ‘Background Noise: Perspectives on Sound Art’ by Brandon LaBelle. Of special interest was chapter4 ‘Rhythms of Chaos: Happenings, Environments, and Fluxus’. This provides me with a clear link to works in the …
May
19
Continuing with pictures as inspiration
Further to the daisy pictures post here are a few more that were taken in the Botanic Gardens in Edinburgh. Again I was interested in the interconnected matrices of leaves, branches and roots. The piezo mics that I have been making with replace these networks, and rather than ‘sucking up nutrients and water’ my installation …
May
19
Daisy Pictures
Whilst on the search for sonic inspiration, I often find that listening to sound or music is strangely counter productive. I discover inspiration in things that are mostly commonly considered not sound related. Such as visual arts, cooking, walking in the woods, reading a book and so on. So with my new handy wee camera …