I have decided to add to my exhibition to try and show my working environment, this is mainly so the viewer can see an insight to my work which will then make my piece easier to understand, people can then view my working process via looking through my sketchbooks as well as my blog.
I have now completed my initial set up of my instillation, reflecting on this I have noticed I have one wall side spare with nothing on it, for this I have decided to add a diagram of my image divided and annotated like in page 31 of my fmp sketchbook as well as display my sketchbooks to give people a sense of how the score was created using this image as I have walked into a art gallery many times and not really understood what was good about it, I just want to make sure people do not get this perception when looking at mine.
I am extremely happy with how things are shaping up and looking, as its how I had pictured it and is looking very professional .
Now I have completed the score I plan to annotate it in accordance to the annotated photos that can be found in my sketch book to make the pieces 'tie' together much more noticeably.
Once this is done I plan to work on designing my exhibition.
I am coming to the end of this project and I am now deciding how I should exhibit my piece I have started to score out my exhibition piece onto manuscript, I am now thinking maybe I could present both Image and then the manuscript next to it making what was audio and visual to a strictly visual piece.
For this I decided to combine two previous pieces, one being musical instruments and the other being the natural sounds I had gathered, the reason for doing this is out of my work these two where probably my most preferred pieces and just out of shear curiosity whether they would work together. This piece is now very textures at parts where it is meant to be which I am happy with, I believe this may be the piece I use for my FMP as I feel that it shows what I am trying to do best.
please pages 48-49 in my fmp sketchbook for write up
my next plan of action is to start to plan/design my exhibition.
Composed a piece for my final image, im not to sure how I like how this has turned out as it is not very fun to listen to but then again it wasn't designed to be nice to listen to. Im not yet sure which piece I will choose to exhibit.
Please see pages 46-47 in my FMP sketchbook for notes and an annotated diagram.
On the 19th of may I decided on my final image (can see below) and sent it to print ready for my exhibition. I have decided to use this image as it has more quality's about it than the other. for example; this image has bits of yellow in it unlike the other which gives me more notes to use (A sharp) I also believe this piece is much stronger in composition.
I have now started composing for this piece and plan to have it completed by the 26th of may.
I have Just completed another arrangement for an image using natural sounds, this time I used my 2nd image, I have retuned all my sound clips I record in accordance to the colour section they represent and then arranged them using what I had learnt from my previous attempt and had planned it out much more this time. I have also used more textures in the textured areas for example where it is very textured (such as the grass section, C/B) I have used Poly-rhythms (Different rhythms playing at the same time)
Please see pages 40-45 for annotations and write ups
I have now gathered multiple audio samples for this experimental piece, I looked at a couple of people for inspiration for my piece, one piece being made using game sounds (found below) they have gathered multiple samples of sound from the game and placed it together to create a piece of music, I had planned to do something similar but with sticking to the rules I used in my other two pieces and using sounds of the items you could see in my photograph.
After this I threw myself in at the deep end (as I believe the best way to learn something is by trying it yourself) and started to import my sounds into cubase, After choosing which segments I was going to use I started to arrange them in a rhythmical fashion, once this was done I added effects such as reverb to make sounds last longer, I then encountered my first problem I soon had to solve, I did this by searching for a tutorial on how to pitch shift clips in cubase, once this was solved everything was straight forward.
Please see write up and annotations in my sketchbook pages 37-39
Looking through my first sketchbook I have discovered a piece I had created for the museums paintings taking samples I had recording them to build a sound-scape for that painting.
I have decided now to further my project and to go down the the location where I took my photographs to take samples of the stones/wood/plants/wind anything down there and then change the pitch of these samples in cubase in relation to the colour sections in the image for example the wood would be altered to sound like an A note as this is the note value of the colour within the spectrum.
My attempt for my 2nd final image, I much prefer this piece as it is much more pleasant to listen to as the notes and instruments work better, I tried to take what I had learnt from the first images piece and apply them to this piece (assign each colour an Instrumental family).
please see sketchbook page 34-36 for annotated diagram and write up.
I have started work scoring and recording a musical piece using the Image as a manuscript, relating each colour into the musical equivalent (for example Blue = D , Green = C etc...). For this piece I related the number of tracks into musical bars and then composed bar by bar starting from the bottom and working upwards. I then took note of what colour related to what note and how much texture were in different sections of the images and then tried to add texture/lose texture in my music piece where needed.
Please see pages 32-33 in my sketchbook for write up.
Out of my many images I took I have Chosen two of my best images to pick between I have annotated them to help me when composing, they now show what each section/colours etc represent in a musical sense. What I now plan to do is create a few scores for the two pieces and then pick my best for my exhibition piece.
I have taken a series of test shots (these can be found in my test shot book) for my final image, I now plan to search through them and decide which image I should use for my final image, once this is done I plan to annotate it with ideas for the sound piece.
I've started to put my bibliography together using the Harvard Referencing System to keep all my reference's together as they were all in separate files before.
I went to my first location today just to take a couple of test shots but my camera ran out of batterys as Forgot to charge them, I only ended up with around 6 minutes worth of footage before it died, but I believe this location would be great, a couple of people walked past which I feel ruins the piece but if i was to get a shot with no people walking past I believe this would be a great location for one of my exhibition pieces. - Inspired by Fay Godwin
As I started in a previous post i have decided to create a series of images/videos with sounds I have created, so I have decided to start location scouting currentlyI have 2 places in mind.
This is my first location, there is a now a sculpture of a UFO up there, I plan to Gain a shot which shows this sculpture as well as the Sky and surrounding areas.
This is my second location, its a reservoir close to my house
I've finished my sound effects for the animation piece as shown below next I shall compose a score just to see how much it can effect the way the audience perceive a piece.
(Please see page # for write up and pages 81,82,85,86,87,92,93,94,109 in my research sketchbook for notes and research)
