Making Space
2021 spring /Creative tech 3
Project Title: Sound of the Forest
(Forest as a making space)
Tool: Loop station, Mic, Video recording with a cellphone
Project Title: Sound of the Forest
(Forest as a making space)
Tool: Loop station, Mic, Video recording with a cellphone
Brief
“In this project we will consider the materialities, locatedness, process, tools, politics of making, and making’s relationship to technology, design and designing. We want to critique/expand established notions of making, and/or complicate ideas about what constitutes a making space.”
Our brief is to imagine and stage a speculative making space.
“In this project we will consider the materialities, locatedness, process, tools, politics of making, and making’s relationship to technology, design and designing. We want to critique/expand established notions of making, and/or complicate ideas about what constitutes a making space.”
Our brief is to imagine and stage a speculative making space.
Process
I often go to the forest near my house, and it's always surprising how the color, sound, and smell of the forest change so quickly. Forest is a great 'making space' that produces so much richness. Since it's a living thing, everything I experience there feels so refreshing but at the same time quite temporary, and I always wanted to find some way to keep the experience (sound, air, color of the ground) forever.
I especially love the sound of the forest, and it's usually the birds or the sound of the wind blowing in the leaves of the trees.
So I created music from the forest and its elements, such as leaves and branches. To make the sound more like experimental music, I used a loop station pedal that I often used for the guitar playing and tried to create patterns.
I often go to the forest near my house, and it's always surprising how the color, sound, and smell of the forest change so quickly. Forest is a great 'making space' that produces so much richness. Since it's a living thing, everything I experience there feels so refreshing but at the same time quite temporary, and I always wanted to find some way to keep the experience (sound, air, color of the ground) forever.
I especially love the sound of the forest, and it's usually the birds or the sound of the wind blowing in the leaves of the trees.
So I created music from the forest and its elements, such as leaves and branches. To make the sound more like experimental music, I used a loop station pedal that I often used for the guitar playing and tried to create patterns.
Final