“Convergence”
This is the final book.
This book is your “brief” for your design intervention for the final event (fermata 3) on
Thursday the 2nd November opening at 5pm.
This will need to relate to
a) the design studio agenda
b) your take on sites of respite
c) your studies and explorations of sound and the city so far
The book acts as an opportunity to collect, refine and clearly communicate your ideas/propositions.
It will be presented to a panel for assessment on Thursday the 26th of October from 9:30-6:30.
Therefore your book will need to function as a public presentation.
The due dates for books 4 and 5 have been modified.
Draft versions are due on Thursday the 26th of October from 9:30-6:30
Final and revised versions are now due on Friday the 10th at 9:30 am
on level four, building 87.
hi silencios,
anna and i (candice) are looking at how we can offer our stakeholders more control over the sound they hear – a way to manipulate existing sound in the city, in a particular space. we think that this personalisation of sound will make an intimate experience which becomes a form of respite or fermata in a soundscape of relatively large and distant sound. we already have a couple of ideas about how we will propose this for the next exhibition- to funnel sound into a small space (say like a sculpture with vents) and contain it momentarily, and then letting it out at the users’ discretion ( if this is possible ?). the other idea is about encouraging users to shut out city sounds by offering a medium for them to communicate their own sounds- for example a chinese whispers wall (interpretation open on that by the way).
what do you think – go on….
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Silence and Other Ways
So far you have been exploring your ideas in relation to your experiences and observations.Now we ask you to extend your work in relation to potential users / actants that could be implicated and impacted by your design proposition.You need to identify who could be the stakeholders in your project.Think about the specifics of your current idea (or where it might go from here).Locate / find a group of people who might have a stake in your project and develop a working relationship with them [approach them, talk to them, listen t their take on sound in the city]This is also a design problem, not just a case of finding people.Remake, rework and develop the idea of your mid semester exhibition.Think about how you can use design to include real stakeholders – invite them to the exhibition, work with them.Start using the blog as a way of discussing your ideas.
21st SeptemberExhibition (fermata event two):Must be publicly accessible and outside of rmit – but in the CBDRevise and develop in light of feedback from stakeholders etc for final submission.
The book will be due on Thursday the 19th of October.
Hi All,
Ben and Katie have started nutting out the interior treatment for the exhibition.
More hands and minds would be valuable on this.
Come to 87.4 and I show you around.
We need this done by wednesday evening so that thursday can just involve your project work.
Filed under: BOOK [2] A Book of listening, BOOK [3] tardis, exhibition working notes
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My book of nothing is a journey of experience in finding nothing. It is then intended to presented in a small AVI movie in the PDF. However the very limited format of this blog stops me uploading the small avi along side. what can ya do?So instead here is a separate moving GIF file of the moving book of NOTHING.
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Apologies for the delay…Click Here for “A Book of Nothing”
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What is it?different on the inside than the outsidea device that enables transition between worldsan experience or perception
Eidophusikon
what will your tardis do?translate a 1:1 proposition in the field into exhibition spaceForm part of an exhibition in week six so it will have to fir into a gallery space with 24 othersProvide an experience of your proposition to the viewerThink diorama. Think diorama with sound. Investigate 3d techniques employed in dioramas and alike (sterographs, 3d print offset, 3 d models)Find numerous precedents to inform this work.
How?team up with LA or IDmake one hybrid collaborative project or two projects together
Schedule?Thursday 24th AugustRoom 87..05.11 1:1 intervention loaded on the blogBring research of dioramasIn class making of dioramasbring card, knives, cutting blades, tape, glue, cutting mat etc
Friday 25th AugustworkshopIn class work shop continuedBring material as above1:1 model of tardis completed
Remake final tardis with contents of 1:1 intervention
Thursday the 31st Augustcomplete
Friday the 1st Septemberthe first day of springinstallation of work in galleryexhibition opening
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book of nothing
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Silence and other ways 10/8/2006
Research Toolkits:Given the specific nature of the study (sound in the city) it is crucial that you develop a set of research practices that provide meaningful learning experiences and design responses.The thing here is to have a set of methods that utilise different listening, documentation and technological practices but act to cohere your findings in some way.Here are some suggested methods (all of which contribute to the production of Book 2).
Spatial mapping of sound by type: This is essentially the method that Lawrence introduced to you last week, although his way resulted in a 2d representation of sounds in a concentric / radial fashion.It is a way of recording two types of sound (rhythmic and flat line /drone) and the time intervals of each audible sound over a twenty minute time envelope.This method records really useful data – but there is a lot of re-interpretation of this data for it to translate into a 3d spatial document of sound / silence.The key to this method is that it is repeated often at different times of day and in differing conditions. Then each ‘map’ can be overlayed (as transparencies) and real patterns can be seen.
But imagine if this process could be expanded so that it records:· Sound type· Location / direction (360 degrees)· Elevation· Decay· VolumeAll in a way that allows for a direct extrapolation into 3d spatial information.Design a method for this and test it.
Binaural Recording: This is a method of recording the sound of real experience form the embodied position of such and experience. That is, you record as you would hear.This is done by replacing your “ears” with small microphones that record into a left or right stereo channel.There are many benefits in this method:· It is non intrusive· It allows you to listen back to an aural experience· It can act as a concurrent method to other research and can be used to confirm findingsRead the links on the blog re: Binaural Recording and design and make your own recording device for next week. (we will review and re design these devices then)
Marquette’s / Making: Devoting time to ‘making’ is a really important research activity as it allows two crucial things to happen: · It isolates your ‘headspace’ into a process of construction and reconstruction of complex and abstract ideas – (writing does this as well)· It allows you to continually relocate the ideas that you have into a spatial medium that makes sense (the world is a 3d place).
So while you might be dealing with abstractions and seemingly obtuse information “making” is a way of grounding these thoughts into something that is real and is in the world.
What TSU has:
Audio:Tech services no-longer have a portable DAT recorder – but they do have the following:5 x Digital Audio Recorders (Stereo input / adjustable sample rate – MP3, WMA, WAV format capacity)Quite a few Digital Voice Recorders (lower sample rate – Stereo input – WMA format)Lots of Microphones Digital Video cameras with a stereo Mic input – can be used inplace of DAT
They can do transfer.
Visual:Usual digital SLR cameras1 x 3megapixle ENDOSCOPIC camera1x 35mm fisheye (8mm) – amazing lens1x Digital SLR fisheye (10mm) lens
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Andria’s “Book of Nothing” can be viewed here……..supposedly!
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Andria’s “Book of Nothing” can be viewed here.
repetition has been a key element of this process http://silenceandotherways.files.wordpress.com/2006/08/a-book-of-nothing.pdf
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What is it and why?This book will narrate the semesters thinking, making, doing, exploring, procrastinating, etcIt is a book of ‘the making of’, including process of making and the things that become invisible in the final product but are critical to your learning or the development of the project.Whilst it could include everything it will require selection and inclusion of critical moments.Whilst you are the predominant audience, it is intended that this book could also give someone else an insight into your processes. This it is expected to be both documentation and reflective.A book of beginning to document and reflect on the mechanics of learning, of your learning. This is the book of truth. The book will be a return to your book of nothing. It will be a revision and re-thinking of your initial book in light of your developing interest.The process of making should be ongoing through out the semester.
The book will be due on Thursday the 19th of October.
Filed under: BOOK [2] A Book of listening
What is it?This book will act as a way of communicating your early explorations with sound in the city, based on research activities work-shopped with Lawrence Harvey and Michael Fowler [SIAL SOUND].It will be your first exposure to the Fermata Project.The book will take the form of an Audio Visual Presentation and will collectively be used as a way of opening up the discussion on sound in the city with those involved in the Fermata Project (SIAL, MCC, other interested parties).
How it will start:Thurs 3/8 1.30-5pm: n-space and city with Lawrence Harvey. Activities/lectures:Overview of acoustic ecology and resourcesCity Sounds project: background, process and resultsSound walkPerceptual Exercises and notationFriday 4/8 1-5pm: n-space with Michael Fowler, Activities/lectures:The fermata in musicNotationSpecial unscheduled short session Thurs 10/8 1.30 – 3.30pm: Jail [11.c.12] with Fiona and Liam.Activities/lectures:Research toolkitsPublic space and Melbourne
What will the book contain?The “Book of Listening” is more precisely a book [read – mechanism / device for telling a story] of your listening[s][read – aural discoveries in the city]. This is a place to put forward curated ideas about sound and the city via sound and material propositions and it has two distinct parts/chapters.Chapter One is essentially “audio”. It will be constructed out of recordings and compositions of sounds that you encounter in the city. To do this you will need to design and construct an instrument for collecting and interpreting aural information. This will be a combination of technologies and questions and research methods introduced to you by your lecturers. It will have a visual component [exterior or interface]. This could be physical / material or screen based. It could be dynamic or static.What you choose to do will become clear as your research progresses.
Chapter Two is concerned with the idea of your position in the articulation of your research into a series of ten (10) Marquette’s. A way of framing this design activity is to think of these “objects” as “listening posts”: think of bird hides, fire towers, crows nests or any structure / device that is designed for the observation of specific phenomena. SCALE: this book (and all of its contents) will be contained in a box no larger than an “A4 Transfer Box”
DUE: The point of submission will be an event on Thursday the 31st of August.You will design, organize and document this event.
What you interpret “Audio Visual” as constituting is open.However it is important that you present your ideas in a way that invites and provokes discussion – as it is this that will give you direction for the rest of the studio.
Resources:Download this freeware sound-editing suit. http://audacity.sourceforge.net/Web storage: You may need to store your book online so that it can be linked to the blog [blog file size restrictions may be inadequate. Use one of the more reputable free net storage services or use your RMIT net storage http://www.rmit.edu.au/browse;ID=tjda4cll2fmyYou will need to borrow a Portable DAT Recorder from TSU http://tech.tce.rmit.edu.au/ and may need to use their editing suits and other services for DAT to file transfer.
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This is my second attempt at posting on this blog. I hope it works!
View my book of nothing
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See it here –> www.braysstudio.blogspot.com/2006/08/book-of-nothing.html
i found making my second ‘book of nothing’ quite hard. its differenent from the first one, more because the first one was more sculptural than bookish. i spent another hour in silence just meditating on it, not even moving or making.
check the pdf out here
Hope this post is useful. http://silenceandotherways.files.wordpress.com/2006/08/keith_farnsworth_book1.pdf Finally able to upload Book 1, whew… 
Cheers, Keith Farnsworth
To find out how to upload files click here
Files must be smaller than 1500kb – so in Acrobat go to “file” “reduce file size” – click it and save it as a version.
Make sure you check “a book about nothing” in the categories feild of your post
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Silence and Other Ways
Book One
“A Book of Nothing”
Material Needed:6 x A1 Sheets of ‘Bulky News’
In response to the readings distributed design and make a book about nothing.
What does it look like? What does it remind you of?What does it sound like?What can be read from it?
If the answer to any of these questions is “something” then start over.
Remember it is still a “book”.
Observe one hour’s silence while making your book.
Document your process of “making”
Format for Submission: You must photograph your book as if it is to be exhibited in a gallery: Each page, front to back. Think of it as an artifact, as something of critical cultural significance. Compile these images into a horizontal (landscape) in Illustrator (or similar) and write a statement (100 words maximum) that accompanies your book. Save as a PDF with the file name: [your name]BOOK1.PDF
Upload your file to the Blog http://silenceandotherways.wordpress.
Due 3/8
