Friday, October 26, 2007

For your safety and security this city contains CCTV

Photo and catalogue Closed Circuit Television Cameras and their locations in Dublin inner city.

Two A1 posters were created with eight panels - each panel observes and discusses various aspects of surveillance and our resulting behaviour when aware of such surveillance.

Below: Some images from the project


Cubist Photography

Take photos of still life from different perspectives and merge.
Double exposures?

Pixelism
Pixelate portraits and paint tonal squares.

Friday, October 12, 2007

Typing Notes

Each key on typewriter has a sound or a musical pitch. When you type you hear various sounds so as you compose text you are also composing music. This could possibly be constructed by converting the typewriter into a midi controller?????

Pitches/Sounds should have varying lengths.
Percussive.

Sunday, October 7, 2007

Random Image

Balloon Tree

Balloons float away in light breeze.

Saturday, October 6, 2007

Albums

Some important records for me:

Stravinky's Firebird and Petrushka
The Bionaut - Lubricate Your Living Room
Squarepusher - Go Plastic
Miles Davis - Filles de Kilmanjaro
Eric Dolphy - Out to Lunch
John Coltrane - Blue Train
Ali Farka Toure & Ry Cooder - Talking Timbuktu
Talking Heads - Remain in Light

ElectrAcoustics

i.e running electricity through acoustic instruments/ potential acoustic instruments to record new sounds.
e.g
sending electronic currents through xylophone keys. how does this affect how the instrument sounds when played? When current is increased? Do the electronic vibrations produce notes? What notes? How is it possible to write music for this?

other e.gs
piano strings
wind chimes (magnetised???)
guitar fretboards/strings

create new instruments - electronic current flows, rubber mallets stop current???