{"id":2193,"date":"2022-09-14T18:34:05","date_gmt":"2022-09-14T06:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bestir.red\/?page_id=2193"},"modified":"2022-10-25T20:58:05","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T08:58:05","slug":"237-231-independent-study-notes-perception-as-a-single-page","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bestir.red\/?page_id=2193","title":{"rendered":"237.231 Independent Study Notes – Perception (as a single page)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

237.231 Independent Study Week #7 (#1)<\/h2>\n\n

Perception Session #1<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

To Do:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. Confirm topic area – which sensory modality<\/li>
  2. Workbook<\/li>
  3. Creative Piece<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Which Sensory Modality?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

    I think I will go with Sound\/Audio\/Aural\/Hearing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Opportunity to continue from Spatial Design? Add spatial sound?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Experiment with more with audio synthesis?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Ideas<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

    Soundscape<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
    • Reuse the work I did in Spatial.<\/li>
    • Design a spatial audio environment (Use SSR?).<\/li>
    • Experiment with entering laving buildings and other enclosed spaces.<\/li>
    • Bit boring?<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n

      Sound enablement<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
      • Build a sound enabled app.<\/li>
      • Trigger (spatial) audio when various actions are detected?<\/li>
      • Totally my comfort zone.<\/li>
      • Boring.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n

        Game<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
        • Create a simple game using audio clues.<\/li>
        • Maybe use Processing’s sound panning?<\/li>
        • Again, my IT comfort zone. Get out of this!<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n

          Video<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
          • Walkthrough a landscape using ambient sounds.<\/li>
          • Create emotions? Fear? Anticipation?<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
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            What to investigate next<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

            Would really like to look at how sounds and stereo imaging causes almost physical reactions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

            There’s a Deadmau5 track called Sofi Needs A Ladder that has a really strange intro, using out of sync stereo (binaural?) beats from what sounds like a saw tooth waveform from a synth modulating another oscillator. The out of sync combined with distortion and delay induces almost physical feeling – frisson – and I’m interested to do more exploration of this. Time to break out the modular synth again?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

            Could potentially look at how music alters mental state?<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

            237.231 Independent Study Week #8 (#2)<\/h2>\n\n

            Perception Session #2<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

            Started to look more deeply at how audio\/sounds affect me on a physical level. I looked at pieces of music that gave me a sense of frisson, or otherwise elicited a physical reaction in me. Examples will be EDM tracks that make use of audio phasing to generate a kind of visceral response, or certain classical pieces where the crescendo is written to stir the emotions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

            I learned that there are similarities in terms of complexity and volume in these pieces, but it’s difficult for me to identify a true commonality between them that would allow for a “formula” to be used to create a similar piece of audio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

            Some pieces I went back to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

            • Deadmau5: Sofi Needs A Ladder<\/em><\/li>
            • Philip Glass: Music in Twelve Parts<\/em><\/li>
            • Alejandro Guzm\u00e1n Rojas: VVitch OST<\/em><\/li>
            • Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 Allegretto<\/em><\/li>
            • Edward Elgar: Nimrod, Enigma Variations (Adagio)<\/em><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n

              So what is the feeling these pieces engender?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

              • Rhythmic, binaural audio, frisson.<\/li>
              • A state of relaxation, decreased heart rate.<\/li>
              • Fear. Nervousness.<\/li>
              • Empowerment. Being “stirred”.<\/li>
              • Patriotism. Pathos.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n

                How to represent that as a resolved piece of my own work?<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

                237.231 Independent Study Week #9<\/h2>\n\n

                Perception Session #3<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

                Tasks<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

                Some items to work through:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

                Evaluating – where is your project now?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
                1. I started by\u2026\u2026.:<\/li>
                2. This is why…………<\/li>
                3. And this is what I discovered\/learned\/imagined……….<\/li>
                4. AND then I did this\u2026\u2026<\/li>
                5. Because …….<\/li>
                6. And this is what I discovered\/learned\/imagined…….<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

                  I started by considering how I might use my sense of hearing or sound processing in a piece. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

                  This is why I reexamined the Processing Language, started to look at what options I have for music syntheses, how to record audio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

                  So, then I thought it might be interesting to explore spectrograms of selected audio extracts to see if I could see any commonality. On consideration, I felt that this is reverting to an “engineering” approach to this module, rather than really investigating the role of the senses. This is not a celebration of the senses; it instead becomes an analysis of how senses work and how they influence, which feels like the wrong approach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

                  So, then I thought more about sound, particularly music, and how it affects me at a deeper level. I have pretty broad tastes – I graze through many genres – so it’s of interest to me to understand why music affects me in the way that it does. I am not a musician; I am passionate about experiencing music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

                  • Do I need to take more risks in my experimentations or investigations?<\/li>
                  • How could my project be visualised<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n

                    So, what do I want to do instead?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

                    Rather than analyse music; experience<\/em><\/strong> music. Use poetry, sketches, other visual media, etc. to somehow respond to and articulate what I experience when I listen to a piece of music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

                    Not an interpretation of the music. A representation of the experience.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

                    Perhaps the product of this could be a Twitter feed of work based on pieces of music? Or just simply blog posts on this blog, so I don’t need to work inside the 280 character limit?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

                    Poetry<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

                    I will try poetry. So, an experiment with poetry as a response to music. Going back to Deadmau5’s Sofi Needs A Ladder<\/em>, a poem:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

                    Sofi Needs A Ladder\n<\/strong>\nMeeting mid-brain,\nLeft and right repetition,\nPlucking expectations.\n\nTempo rising unphased,\nSympathetic resonances move ever closer,\nTightening a ratchet strap in my headphones.\n\nThe terminus becomes visible.\nTwo halves unify and ascend.\nTranscend.\nUnify.\nSolidify.\nOne minute.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
                    Visual Media<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
                    Visual media is another option. Many visual artists have been inspired by music, including a recent project for the Interscope music label.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
                    To celebrate Interscope Records\u2019 30th anniversary, dozens of renowned visual artists have created original works inspired by songs and albums released by the label\u2019s musical artists through the years.<\/p>\u2018These Artists Are Reinterpreting Music by Billie Eilish, Blackpink, Olivia Rodrigo, and More as Original Works\u2019. ELLE<\/em>, 13 Jan. 2022, https:\/\/www.elle.com\/culture\/music\/a38752208\/interscope-30th-anniversary-artists-inspired-by-music\/.<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
                    \"\"
                    Seeking Hearts<\/em> – Jennifer Guidi
                    \u2018Seeking Hearts (Black MT, Pink Sand, Pink CS, Pink Ground), 2021\u2019. LACMA<\/em>, http:\/\/www.lacma.org\/node\/41003. Accessed 28 Sept. 2022.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\n
                    237.231 Independent Study Week #10<\/h2>\n\n
                    Perception Session #4<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
                    Note<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
                    This is mainly preparation for face-to-face session 5, which unfortunately I had to miss because of work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
                    Tasks<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
                    • What is your writing project – how are you approaching this – a creative work and academic work\/etc.<\/li>
                    • How are you presenting the work? Zine, book style, catalogue, photo essay, etc.<\/li>
                    • How is the approach you are taking seem relevant\/appropriate to the project you have undertaken?<\/li>
                    • What set texts you have been reading? additional resources? and the research on creative practices you have located?<\/li>
                    • Where are you at with the Works Cited List or Reference lists.<\/li>
                    • What do you feel you need help \/support wi th?<\/li>
                    • What is on your Checklist<\/li>
                    • List questions you have for us<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
                      Responses<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
                      What writing project?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
                      How do various pieces of rhythmic, repetitive music influence me as an artist?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
                      How to present?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
                      Boring, but a classic essay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
                      Relevancy to project?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
                      Not sure that an essay is going to be able to fully articulate how a piece of music makes me feel. Will need to see how far my vocabulary stretches!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
                      Which set texts?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
                      I’m going to work with Paul Duncum\u00a0Visual Culture and Embodiment\u00a02005<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
                      Citations?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
                      I have a number of sources so far from my research into this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
                      What help needed?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
                      Not a lot of point filling this out – I can’t attend the tutorial.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
                      What’s on checklist?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
                      1. Listen again to pieces.<\/li>
                      2. Experiment with some basic drawing, painting, while listening to a piece. See if the piece I’m listening to makes any difference to my work.<\/li>
                      3. Select the media I will use for my final piece(s).<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n
                        Any questions?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
                        Not at this stage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
                        237.231 Independent Study Week #11<\/h2>\n\n
                        Perception Session #5<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
                        Tasks<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
                        Resolve my creative work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
                        Issues<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
                        Sounds easy enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
                        However.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
                        I currently have a total creative block.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
                        How am I to get past this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
                        Experiments to date<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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