Wednesday 20 March 2013

Visualising Sounds

How do sounds look like?

That has been a question of mine for a long time, but Photoshop is one way of visually displaying sound as a complex set pixels in several shades of grey.

What's quite interesting here is the difference in the appearance of sounds depending on the tonality, the  pitch and especially if they were edited or not.

Here I have a number of sound samples that I recorded through a noisy day in London. The images are all exact representations of the sounds as presented in Photoshop but some of the sound samples were edited on FineCut Pro.

Click here to here to hear the recordings. Slide down to see the images while you're doing it.





















     

Tuesday 19 March 2013

Broad Vision 2013


So I've been taking part for the 2nd time in a row at Broad vision collaborative project and I'm really happy I decided to do so!

The project is expanding more and more each year, this time gaining a wide recognition from
The Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2013/mar/19/art-students-find-beauty-in-science
Welcome Collection Gallery http://www.wellcomecollection.org/
The Art of Science blog http://theartsofscience.com/2013/03/04/broad-vision-2-book-launch/
and GV Art Gallery.

I've been involved in some great workshops this year, working with Color Science experiments, Photograms, Illustration and transmitting sound through bananas and pencil drawings using an amazing little gadget called makemakey.













What made the biggest impression for me though was a conversation we had with students and stuff from Imaging Science course at the University of Westminster on Steganography; term used to describe the act hiding data within other data (images, audio files etc).

Data in this case refers to the codes used to formulate an image on a machine. It's a series of numbers and letters that translates to color, light, shape, size etc.

Glich Art was one way of manipulating such data.







What was also interesting, was the way you could glitch audio files by transforming them into RAW files and opening them on Photoshop.





What I thought would be even more interesting is to embed data from audio into image files and vice versa. Ways to achieve this is by using programs such as Processing and MatLab.

Some of my first practise examples of coding at Processing