Graphical Responses to electronic sound
- Notation - Marks on Paper
- Frequency and Oscillation
- Harmonics and Vibration
- Digital Responses
Notation - Marks on Paper
We were shown a quote by Nikola Testa in Electronics which was:
"If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration".
We then looked at Telegraphy in 1840 and people known as Joseph Henry, Alfred Vail and Samuel Morse. The one that we looked into further was Samuel Morse who created the Morse Code, which was the first graphical representation of sound. ( - . ) Ticker tape links under visualisation. We were told that Telegraphy + Morse Code = Early Text Messaging.
We then looked at Joseph Schillinger who was a Mathematic notation - Bach. We were told that he brought his maths to sound/notation and that he also experimented with skylines and created a piece known as the Skyline Melody. After we had done this we looked at the musician called John Cage who created Song Books (1958), his work looked more like morse code. He created books of these scores, known as Fontana Mix (1958), Visual Score (1960) and Music for airports (1978) - Brian Eno Electronic Music.
Muzak is the type of the music that is played in a hotel or played in a lift, which is known for culture and was very revolutionary. He is also a design that went to design school.
Frequency and Oscillation
Oscilloscopes - Heart Machine Line
The first person that we looked at for this section was Karl Ferdinand Braun (1987), who was a german inventor and contributed to the development of television and radio technology. We then looked at Leon Theremin, who was a Russian that lived in New York City. We watched a video called Leon Theremin playing his own instruments, I found that this clip was very interesting and very different because we hadn't seen anything like this before in Graphic Design. We then looked at Mary Ellen Bute, who is connected with Leon Theremin, Oskar Fischinger and Joseph Schillinger, we found that she worked with Dr Ralph Potter and Bell Telephone Labs, that moods contrasts.
We also looked at Abstronics (1954) known as Abstract Electronics. We were also shown WMP Visualisation, that is mainly used using the programme Window Media Player which creates a waveform that is a generator by what is being played in the programme. This is not hackable.
Harmonics and Vibration
Within this section we looked at many artists, the first that we looked into was Robert Hooke (1680) who experimented with Slate and Flour and a Violin Stick. We also looked at Ernst Chladni (1787), who is best known for the Discoveries of Sound. Another person that we looked at was Hans Jenny (1967) who was best known for Cymatics, he did lots of experiments with plates, we watched a clip from a documentary that was an hour long. We talked about 37, 44 Hz from Cymatics.
Another person that we looked at within this lecture was Mandala, where we talked about the subject of Hayagriva Sand Mandala. We then moved onto Nigel John Stanford, who was also known for Cymatics. Nigel is also known for Science vs Music 2014, which we watched a clip from. In this piece of work we were shown all the features that we had from the start of the lecture, which I found was very interesting and very creative.
Digital Responses
Within the digital responses section of the lecture we looked into Adobe Audition and Audio Waveforms. Cubase - Digital Music Sequencing that helps you to write music. Another part that we looked at was Max MSP, which is a Node Based Editing, it is like one John Cage's abstracts. Expressive Language. We then watched two clip called Remnant 2010 - Small Hands, Jason Payne - Geometric on Vimeo.
