Spatialisation for Installation and Performance

Spatialisation for Installation and Performance 3*

This is the first project. It’s very interesting and I think this project has a sense of science and technology. Use code to make the machine write the sentence. The sound and its mode of operation can make me reminds the typewriters and counters.

I really love this project. This project has an immersive multi-channel installation that comprises 100 microphones suspended above 100 metal spikes. The soundscape alternates between languages including Arabic, Azeri, Chinese, English, Hindi, and Spanish.

Visitors will encounter 100 microphones suspended over 100 metal rods, each piercing a verse of poetry. Over the course of an hour, each microphone, in turn, recites a fragment of the poets’ words.

” The title of the work is inspired by a poem by the 14th century poet known as Nesimi, born in what is now modern-day Azerbaijian and executed for the religious beliefs expressed in his poetry which ran counter to dominant contemporary doctrines. This is one of a number of historic poems included in the work (with the earliest dating to the 7th century). The vast majority of the poems, however, stem from the 20th century up to the present day, reflecting the artist’s particular engagement with the rise of the nation state, and the related social and political struggles for self determination and access to democracy and human rights.”

Nast, C., 2021. Venice Biennale invites artist Shilpa Gupta to showcase two installations. [online] Architectural Digest India. Available at: <https://www.architecturaldigest.in/content/venice-biennale-shilpa-gupta-installations/> [Accessed 19 November 2021].

Foley

Last Friday I booked Foley Studios, which I used to record the sound of my final project. Before I go to the studio to record, I have to do some preparation. The first thing was to write down the sounds I might need on paper. The second is to use Markers to mark the sounds in ProTools (when footsteps start/when the doors open). After that, I also did some knowledge and experience about dubbing.

“As a side note, always keep an eye on the overall pace of the moving images. Let’s not forget that sound and audio are means to an end: they are supposed to create, enhance and improve a film’s storytelling in order to achieve a seamless transition between scenes.”
-Medium. 2019. A Closer Look at Sound Design: The Atmosphere. [online] Available at: <https://enhancedmedia.medium.com/a-closer-look-at-sound-design-the-atmosphere-680bbe2b9b2f> [Accessed 1 November 2021].

I also found that the voice of pinching cabbage can be used to simulate eating apples, which I think is very interesting. Maybe I can complete dubbing with some similar voices without real actions. Therefore, in order to better dub, I prepared some items that I thought could be used in advance, such as clothes, plastic bags, and sticks.

I used the 416 microphones and recorded the dubbing process recording equipment. The dubbing process is very interesting. Especially when I try to see if the sound matches the picture. I think I gained a lot of experience.

I think the hardest thing for me was matching footsteps. First, you have to follow the character’s movements, and second, you have to listen to see if my footsteps make sense. In the clip I chose there are two different sounds of footsteps, the first is the sound of footsteps on the wooden floor and the other is the sound of footsteps on the grass. In the process of dubbing, I will think about how to express only two voices walking on completely different materials.

Spatialisation for Installation and Performance week 5

This week was about setting music to a fragment of a landscape, and it was a group collaboration. The first thing was to draw a sketch based on an idea, and this is our group’s sketch. This sketch was not just a random drawing; we folded the piece of paper and drew lines along where the paper was folded. The lines are drawn in different ways (solid or dashed) to express the height of the sound, whether it is a background sound or a subject. The same lines divide the whole drawing into different parts, which can be played with different instruments or devices. We discussed this a lot and then started to choose our instruments. At first, I wanted to choose a ukulele, but I found out that some people in the group had chosen to pick an instrument, and also that some people were going to sing with a microphone, so I chose a secondary instrument in case there was the main melody. This is it (P 2). I’m not quite sure what this is exactly, but it feels a lot like a finer roll of film. It sounds like a sand hammer in the water or the sound of waves. I also chose it because I thought it sounded hazy and I could imagine it as a fog sound.

I’ve been exposed to immersive sound before, but I’ve listened to it through headphones. The immersive sound is very interesting to me, especially when it’s me playing it. The group was randomly assembled; we hadn’t worked together before, and there was no rehearsal before we played. It was kind of a live performance, but I think it worked well together. It was a bit of a free and random performance that made the sound of nature.