Installation locatoins

Here are some plans for where my installation could go for the exposition. 

Installation

Ok so after a few days of mulling around I have done a lot of thinking about my project. I really want to persue my installation idea. SO What will I need to do:

Find a track-  This is a big part of this semester, I need to find a track that can be engaging and have enough complexity to break apart and compose in a visual form

Get permission- I will submit my idea to Clare Brennon, but it will be entirely up to her and the people involved with the exposition to decided. Although, if I dont get the installation space what I will do is make a mock up of what I would want the installation to look like so I am not too worried about this as I have a back up idea.

Content for the videos- So apart from the track, another huge part of my final project will be the content. I plan to have at least 3 media tests done for crit week so that will give me time to experiment with different theories and artists techniques to play around with an develop my own.

Storyboard for installation idea

Here is a storyboard to describe my installation idea better.

Neon- Closing party

Well! what a week! been to a ton of NEON things and I'm up early for a music video workshop tomorrow! A very productive week. Tonight was pretty amazing, it was the final night for neon which has been hosting a whole variety of digital art this week and the finale was not a let down. But it was the final performance that caught my eye tonight. It was a strange looking photo booth in the corner. I got talking to the creator behind the installation and wow it was so cool. Basically Steve is a student at perth college study music (I cant fully remember the course he is on) and this was a project that he had done for college. So how did it work? Well you entered the photo booth and had your picture taken, then he translated the information into sound and then from sound to an image again! So essentially visualizing music! Here is my photo:

Pretty cool huh?

But back to the main attraction. Well creative would be an understatement. Two guys playing music and singing in a transparent prism that had visuals projected onto? Yes that is exactly what it was. An audio visual feast! Throw in some neon lights for music stands and wow, what an ending to a wonderful festival. I took some footage of the show that I will upload later for everyone to feast there eyes on, but I don't really know what else to say about it? I was a wonderful blend of audio/visual stimulation. 

Here's a short video that I took of the night

NEON- Heartbeater

Just back from another amazing neon spectacular! First of all I would like to thank Nilupul for such a warm and lovely evening. It was cozy and intimate with only a small amount of people who were all so kind and friendly. Firstly to describe this installation art, basically you are connected by your hands and feet and your movement controls and interacts with the audio/visuals. The piece is inspired by water, tranquility and peace giving off quite a meditative feel.Designed by composer Mattew Collings and artist Erik Parr, this installation is a sensation for the eye and ear. But what I espeically loved about this piece of art is that its not just used for neon, but Nilupul (where it was showcased) will be keeping "heartbeater" and using it classes and meditation purposes which I think is just so fantastic that a quite abstract piece is used in a really great way and not just for one week purposes.

At the beginning of the night, we were shown a short video of how the public interacted with "heatbeater". It was great seeing all the school children bouncing up and down and having such fun and interaction with quite an abstract piece. There were professionals for the evening that I was at and even though I do not want to doubt or offend their abilities but I much preferred the children and general public playing with it. Watching them, you could see the exploration in their minds and the adventure that they were on as it may seem just like fun to them, it was also expanding their minds to more than just maths and english. 

What I would have probably preferred with this installation would be if it was in a small encasing and you were on your own so it would become fully submersive to the user. Other than that it was a great night and I fully enjoyed the ways in which "heartbeater" connects with people on a different level to match their needs for it.

Here is an article that Nilupul posted on their facebook page :

http://www.facebook.com/nilupulfoundation

NEON- 100,000 Lux

WOW! Tonight was amazing! I am so glad Lynn mentioned this to me, it was great! Ok, so what was is it? Well it was a wacky combination of science, visual art, and sound design! Sound cool? They used the side of Abertay University which has a light system already built in to the exterior. The audio was in control of the visuals generating a colourful, bright and an equally engaging piece for the eye and the ear. What is really interesting is that this artwork was created by data collection from the solar dynamics observatory which programmers erin michno and ian reynolds used to create the spectacular visuals. Also involved was lecturers David Mactaggart and Antonia Wilmot-smith (Dundee University). The audio was created by Raz Ullah who is currently at Abertay studying his masters in sound design. The audio is very unique to say the least, I hope not to offend when I say that it reminded me of the old dial up tone you used to get when connecting to the internet. But as a whole it was very engaging for the eye and ear; the visuals where interesting and in sync with the audio. It had a very alien/spacey vibe to it which is what I really like about it as its inspirations/data technically originates from space so I think its quite cool that it gave off that effect. Over all I thought it was a brilliant exhibit of people from lots of different fields working together and taking something mathematical and numerical into something very beautiful

Here is a picture from Neons facebook page of the event ( I took videos and will upload them later)

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.517611701584027.121679.250366684975198&type=3&l=7e4b453583

Here is the video that I took (time lapse)

Textures in video- idea

Ive been looking quite a lot into textural videos, and one that particularly inspired/motivated me was this fine member-

 I absolutely love this video! I love how he uses visual cues like a hats, shoes, sunglasses and colours in the background so the viewer can easily distinguish between the different parts of the song. I love how for example when the sound is defused, the visuals go blurred to visualize that and the movement shows how the sound is moving. Take a look at it and be amazed, its brilliant!

I would really like to try something like this as a media test. My video from last year was in "imagination will take you everywhere" It was in an installation of  TV screens and that is the way it was presented, but with lots of different videos too. My idea was if I had all 7 and each screen visualized different parts of the music. For example, when a sound is quite, the visual cue for that sound would be on a small screen and when it gets louder it would slide on to a big screen. I want it to look like all 7 videos are connected, when really they are not.

Extension of drawing class week 2

Ok so a Little while ago I talked posted some pictures from a creative drawing class of scarfs/materials/textures. I just want to expand on that as I was thinking about some kind of installation art to do with textures to mimic the textures in music. Then while watching back the footage that I took on that day I had an idea for a final piece. It would be an installation piece with lots of wonder scarfs hanging from a pole. Then there would be fans placed all around the scarfs and then (I know know technically how it would work) but the fans would be timed to go along with the music and create a spectacular dancing installation that represented the music in a more natural way than just programming visuals from audio. Think it would be quite a cool idea, maybe I will give it a wee test out later!

Sound making art

Another musician/artist/sound designer that experiments with audio/visuals/art is Yann Seznec. Even though he is more into the technical side I think that his projects are still pieces of art in themselves. My favourite and most appropriate to my project is called "spores". Mushrooms drop thousands of tiny spores that are naked to the human eye so what Yann and mycologist Patrick Hickey did was shine lasers onto the mushrooms so that as they fell you could see them. Adding the audio element they made software and hardware that detected real time movement and with every spore that fell it activated a sound which was to "represent the nature processes inherent in the mushroom". Here is a link to Yann's website that goes into more detail and there are videos too!

http://theamazingrolo.net/projects/spores/