Soeine: We compared the two different scales: Western occidental scale and East-Asian pentanonic scale. I roughly related the two different musical tones to the religions of those two cultures: Christianity and Shamanism. Christianity tends to emphasise the sky, the sun, and thus upward direction. For example, the techniques of ballet are designed to uplift the body- Shamanism tends to be closely tied to the earth and thus downward direction. The lunar calendar was used in East Asia, while the solar calendar was used in the West. From these cultural differences, I reckoned that Western occidental scale tends to take upward tonality, while East Asian pentanonic scale tends to take downward tonality.
This is the DIY humbugger pickup that Lars made with an inspiration from Chistian Liljedahl:
https://christian.liljedahl.dk/diy-humbugger-balanced-pickup/ Our feedback system is very similar to the system bebow. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EBow Lars wants to know the impedance of his electromagnetic inducer, and to see if it will work with the amplifier we have: https://learnabout-electronics.org/ac_theory/impedance73.ph Soeine: An anechoic chamber (e.g. an anechoic chamber at Orfield Laboratories in Minnesota, US) is a room designed to completely absorb reflections of either sound or electromagnetic waves. It simulates being inside an infinitely large room by letting the person exclusively hear direct sounds (no reverberant sounds). You can hear only the sound that your body creates, such as heart beating, lungs, stomach gurgling.
This idea came about in opposition to the idea of Whispering gallery. I am interested in this idea because it can show the well-known imagery of social isolation in psychology. The person is able to see but cannot hear. Silence metaphorizes the disconnection with what the person sees. Although we use the word 'silence', it does not exist in reality. We hear sound constantly, but do not hear the sounds that we do not pay attention to. Soeine: A whispering gallery is usually a circular, hemispherical, elliptical or ellipsoidal enclosure, often beneath a dome or a vault, or in a cave, in which whispers can be heard clearly in other parts of the gallery. Such galleries can also be set up using two parabolic dishes.
A whispering gallery is most simply constructed in the form of a circular wall, and allows whispered communication from any part of the internal side of the circumference to any other part. The sound is carried by waves, known as whispering-gallery waves, that travel around the circumference clinging to the walls, an effect that was discovered in the whispering gallery of St Paul's Cathedral in London. The waves carry the words so that others will be able to hear them from the opposite side of the gallery. The gallery may also be in the form of an ellipse or ellipsoid, with an accessible point at each focus. In this case, when a visitor stands at one focus and whispers, the line of sound emanating from this focus reflects directly to the focus at the other end of the gallery, where the whispers may be heard. In a similar way, two large concave parabolic dishes, serving as acoustic mirrors, may be erected facing each other in a room or outdoors to serve as a whispering gallery, a common feature of science museums. Egg-shaped galleries, such as the Golghar Granary at Bankipore, and irregularly shaped smooth-walled galleries in the form of caves, such as the Ear of Dionysius in Syracuse, also exist. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whispering_gallery] Soeine: A metronome is a device that produces a steady pulse to help musicians play in time. Here is an example to show how random sounds become synchronized. Experiment with 32 Metronome synchronizing. Soeine: William Forsythe's work has been a major inspiration, especially regarding composition, since my art is directed towards performance, with or without non-human objects. Choreographic Objects, one of his later works, is a particularly useful source in my attempt to re-define improvisation. Soeine: The abstract networks of Chiharu Shiota's work refer to concrete everyday objects such as chairs, keys, window frames, dresses, shoes, boats, and suitcases.
Soeine: Fractals exhibit similar patterns at increasingly small scales called self-similarity, also known as expanding symmetry or unfolding symmetry. Lars and I are mainly interested in approximate fractals found in nature, which display self-similarity over extended, but finite, scale ranges. I personally find a sense of harmony in the seemingly random structure of a fractal. Each shape is different, and yet the collection of those different shapes create unity and harmony.
Our musical instruments generate seemingly random noise-like sounds, and we try to find a setting in which they create harmony sound giving a sense of composition. We intend to borrow the visual imagery of fractals to organise the sounds created by the instruments that we are building. |
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