Friday, November 6, 2009

The conflict integrating soundmass

Untitled from Greg Taylor on Vimeo.


We are all modulated, fragments and shards of vibrations. The a periodic autonomic systems within ourselves create the scaffolding for the rhythmic cycles of our bodies. Our minds are tuned to hearing values and qualities that will inevitably change over time. Sounds that are conflicting for us to hear today may be pleasant years from now.
This building is a resonator, taking instantaneous samples of urban activities stochastically, in a linear sequence, through the field of waterfront circulation. Each point represents a sound capturing device which records a millisecond of sound. When this is repeated sequentially though the site, a connection is made providing empirical evidence of the rhythm of our behavior. What we perceive as sound through our audible range of frequency is reconfigured through the expansion and contraction of time. When a pitch is dilated and slowed down, the result is a rhythm. Conversely, when a rhythm originally designed to be a couple of minutes is condensed the result is a pith, and condensed version of rhythm. This gets fed back into the performance space, producing a change in the performance. The conflict so far is to determine how the performance will produce an affect in the urban environment, the performance. One possibility of the performance causing change in the activity along the path and activate its surroundings by sustaining itself by broadcasting the performance throughout the site.

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