Thursday, 25 March 2010
Monday, 22 March 2010
final evaluation of project
My project started with the research phase, gradually learning and gaining incite into synaesthesia, a condition in witch the occupant's senses pass over each other, causing involuntary pulses of colour, smells, sound or feeling. Some examples include smelling perfume and seeing pink or hearing a door slam and having a flash of colour or shape appearing for a second and fading away. These syneathetic experiences are very memorable, chances are if you had one in childhood you could still describe it in detail to this day.
After the rather interesting research stage I started to experiment with colour. I thought that I could use colour to represent different notes of a stave like Kandinsky did. I found this really hard so just painted to music instead. I did approximately 20 different experiments before I decided my composition. In the end I wasn’t that good at translating sound to colour so used ‘itunes visualiser’ to generate the background for my final piece. This mixed with a picture I drew looked great.
In the painting stage it went smoothly with not many problems in the practical aspect though I did find it difficult choosing colours. To solve this, my tutor arranged a ‘group crit’ with my class to discuss how I could take this painting further. The painting needed to be tidied up, I had to somehow use yellow or purple in the painting to make it look less like a satellite picture (it kind of looks like a map) and must use the chosen colour in the wooden part of the piece to make the picture flow. I decided on yellow as it is complimentary to the other colours. The greens on the edges where blended into blue and all pencil marks and ruff bits where tended to as well. If I could do something differently next time I would plan moor.
So did I achieve what I set out to do? Well yes and no. I achieved my goal but in a different way to what I originally planned. My goal was to produce a sound painting at large scale. I achieved that. The thing I did differently was using a mixture of technology and synaesthesia. I did this because of the simple fact that I am not syneathetic. I quite like it actually; it’s created something that hasn’t really been done before. Many artists have painted to sound so the idea isn’t anything new. But I don’t think many have mixed sound painting with technology.
How does these open pathways into future ideas? Well I could customise my canvasses to the max. Like really extreme so there are no parallel or perpendicular lines anywhere. I quite like the idea of extending possibilities of the canvass. To use a canvass in an unconventional way I could make a series of pictures 4 or 5 completely wrecked shapes, smashed up when I have finished them, really grungy and pushed into corners so the bracing snaps. Completely change the face of the canvases. Maybe not even use paint.
After the rather interesting research stage I started to experiment with colour. I thought that I could use colour to represent different notes of a stave like Kandinsky did. I found this really hard so just painted to music instead. I did approximately 20 different experiments before I decided my composition. In the end I wasn’t that good at translating sound to colour so used ‘itunes visualiser’ to generate the background for my final piece. This mixed with a picture I drew looked great.
In the painting stage it went smoothly with not many problems in the practical aspect though I did find it difficult choosing colours. To solve this, my tutor arranged a ‘group crit’ with my class to discuss how I could take this painting further. The painting needed to be tidied up, I had to somehow use yellow or purple in the painting to make it look less like a satellite picture (it kind of looks like a map) and must use the chosen colour in the wooden part of the piece to make the picture flow. I decided on yellow as it is complimentary to the other colours. The greens on the edges where blended into blue and all pencil marks and ruff bits where tended to as well. If I could do something differently next time I would plan moor.
So did I achieve what I set out to do? Well yes and no. I achieved my goal but in a different way to what I originally planned. My goal was to produce a sound painting at large scale. I achieved that. The thing I did differently was using a mixture of technology and synaesthesia. I did this because of the simple fact that I am not syneathetic. I quite like it actually; it’s created something that hasn’t really been done before. Many artists have painted to sound so the idea isn’t anything new. But I don’t think many have mixed sound painting with technology.
How does these open pathways into future ideas? Well I could customise my canvasses to the max. Like really extreme so there are no parallel or perpendicular lines anywhere. I quite like the idea of extending possibilities of the canvass. To use a canvass in an unconventional way I could make a series of pictures 4 or 5 completely wrecked shapes, smashed up when I have finished them, really grungy and pushed into corners so the bracing snaps. Completely change the face of the canvases. Maybe not even use paint.
Monday, 15 March 2010
the big exhibition
the exhibition was held in the eldon galleries at portsmouth uni. on thursday last week we all went down there in the mini bus as that was the only way to transport all of our works at once. instaling it was a doddle (because the curator did it all) but we did have to be there to tell him what our works needed. this took about 3 hours. after a break in town we where all allowed to go home. i thourght this would be a brillient oppertunity to chat more closly to dave (the curator) about my work. it needed to be installed so no expensive parts would be nickable. after a short chat we decided that the cd player and headphones would be installed 'inside' the plinth. it is now impossible to gein access to the electronics. and the work is now 'safer' but not completley.
the canvas was originally designed to be a landscape piece, with the colours flowing from corner to corner. when i put it againsed the wall ready to be installed me, my teacher and dave decided that it actually looks realy good hung portrait with the explosion at the top of the piece. so dave installed it like this.
at the exibition i discoverd that the wrong song is playing! thats bad. but nobody knows its wrong so its ok. i painted to spotlight by jenifer hudson, but calvin harris is playing for the next 2 weeks. oh well its kind of funny actually. the piece looks profesional and i am very happy with it.=?)
the canvas was originally designed to be a landscape piece, with the colours flowing from corner to corner. when i put it againsed the wall ready to be installed me, my teacher and dave decided that it actually looks realy good hung portrait with the explosion at the top of the piece. so dave installed it like this.
at the exibition i discoverd that the wrong song is playing! thats bad. but nobody knows its wrong so its ok. i painted to spotlight by jenifer hudson, but calvin harris is playing for the next 2 weeks. oh well its kind of funny actually. the piece looks profesional and i am very happy with it.=?)
my project final peice so far
ok then. my final piece went smoothley apart from the instalation and composition. when i was making the piece it went well. i produces my best painting to my best ability and made a side piece from wood to extend the capabilities of the canvas. it simply wasnt big enouth to fit both designes. the side piece was a sort of star shape to the bottom right hand side of the piece. i painted it white and blended it onto the canvass using wall filler. it now looks great.the painting part went smoothley and i really enjoyed doing it. it was thereputic to paint something so big. i would definatly use paint chemicals in the future to extend the drying time to aproxx 30 minuits. trying to blend a large area using paint that dries in 15 muinits and touch dry in 5 is tricky. especially if its detailed and your brush is small. apart from that i managed to blend the colours well and the piece looks lovley in the exhibition.
Sunday, 21 February 2010
i got my materials!
today i went out to hobbycraft and got the correct size canvas for my work its about 5ft tall! i have done more experements and sorted my paints out. ready to start making on monday! i will do my painting in a landscape format as the dimensions of the canvass are perfect for this. i will set it up with a small portable cd player and headphones. so the painting will come alive with the music. hopefully the genra offers nice "movement" shapes and organic lines so the arrangement flows. this will forfill the startword "movement".
Friday, 12 February 2010
what exactly is synaethesia.
syneasthesia is a condition in which the uccupant of the condition 'suffers' chemical crossovers in the brain synapse. the synapse is located in the cortex region of the brain (the wiggly bit) the sufferer could expierence sound to colour clashes or any other sort of crossovers. the type of syneastesia i am studying is the sound to colour expierence. wassily candinski is probably thee most famouse of all artists because of his "sound" paintings. people hadnt seen this type of work before so it got much public interest resulting in the diagnosis of the condition. after that synaethsesia lost interest in the scientists eye and was simpley dubbed unimportant because was "no physical aspects" to harm. many years passed and enentually people started becoming interested again.
Tuesday, 26 January 2010
what colour does this sound like?
My project is all about synaesthesia and its connection with sound and movement. people with this condition get scences mixed up in the brain. its actually quite a complicated condition with the subjects brain transmitters crossing over each other. these people really are wired differently. i think thats quite cool. wassily kandinski was a synaesthetic and he produces amazing sound paintings. he apoints the different notes on the stave with a different colour and paints to simulate the tempo. this is what i hope to do on my project. to produce a sound painting involving movement.
Tuesday, 19 January 2010
what I have learned about movement at the moment.
ok, right now i am educated in the basics of movement and some more interesting facts.
movement is a very wide subject involving anything from wind to the smallest of insects. it can have links as loose as sound (which is what i am focusing on) or radio waves. we can use physical objects in movement like opening a draw or door. so movement can link to everything even if the link is barely noticable.
one of the things i have reserched deeply is syneatheasia because it links sound to shapes and shapes to colour or sounds to colouyr. there are aproximatly 27 various different kinds of syneathesia. i am focusing on the sound to colour version as i can produce a sound painting in responce to movement. it will link with my reserch and the painting will suggest movement. as i links to movment loosly it will work.
my project is to produce a work in responce to movement. my key artist in my reserch is wassily kandinski. he produces sound paintings by appointing a note to a colour and dividing the ratio of colours to produce a graphical representation of the piece of music. he paints to the tempo to give the painting the right feel. soft sounds make a smooth painting and hard sounds make a harsh painting.
movement is a very wide subject involving anything from wind to the smallest of insects. it can have links as loose as sound (which is what i am focusing on) or radio waves. we can use physical objects in movement like opening a draw or door. so movement can link to everything even if the link is barely noticable.
one of the things i have reserched deeply is syneatheasia because it links sound to shapes and shapes to colour or sounds to colouyr. there are aproximatly 27 various different kinds of syneathesia. i am focusing on the sound to colour version as i can produce a sound painting in responce to movement. it will link with my reserch and the painting will suggest movement. as i links to movment loosly it will work.
my project is to produce a work in responce to movement. my key artist in my reserch is wassily kandinski. he produces sound paintings by appointing a note to a colour and dividing the ratio of colours to produce a graphical representation of the piece of music. he paints to the tempo to give the painting the right feel. soft sounds make a smooth painting and hard sounds make a harsh painting.
Monday, 11 January 2010
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