Abstract and Inspiration

I imagined collaborating with species living in the nature environments with archiving with field recordings in Lake. Since I was inspired by Bernie Krause and United Visual Artists’ narratives by biophonies. I began to explore on how to create musical with computational algorithm. Lakes in city such as in London are getting smaller and smaller, the species living there are getting difficulty with lack of care and protection. I wanted to shout out this aspect to keep protecting on species well living there together. Hence, I started to get sound and video recordings from lakes and observe the data showing how species in lake live together. Particularly, the wave forms / rippling / diffraction were part of aspects that I could get inspired of to generate musical of wave scape. Later on, I imagined ‘How do I attract audience to feel these aspects?’ the best things I could try was bring ecological sound and create into more spatial sound into whole musical performance.

Sound Experience with transformation on ecology

Since we live in places where rapid transformation of ecology and industrial development follows. By daily life experience and artistic observation on sound, we could feel how ‘ecological sound’ and ‘industrial noise’ are generated and brought to us. It could not only become noise but also harmonious music as well. In according to scientist, musician, and audiovisual artist, they tried to open new window on sound of nature and noise to be harmonious and tangible experience for audience in exhibition and musicals. I propose that how industry made sound ‘noise’ and ecological and nature ‘sound’ could cope together and reinterpreted for us to have well-being life in daily changing environment.

The Great Animal Vocalization as Orchestra

In audiovisual installation ‘The Great Animal Orchestra’(Bernie Krause and UVA, 2019), it particularly develops a passion for harmonious sounds of nature and animal. Since Bernie Krause had traveled the world in search of the non-human nature of music, he recorded diverse animal vocalizations. Considering deliberately the natural world as a poet and producing animal vocalization as a musician. In addition, the analysis of graphic representation is orchestrated as harmonious musical. It especially tells the story of impressive work on ‘heart of the sounds of nature’ with embrace on both aesthetic and technology. It shows how the earth becomes immense orchestra with a lively sonority and ensemble of millions of species all participating in gigantic musical concert. It gives us space to think on ‘the sounds and music of nature play an integral part of our daily life’.

Audiovisual - Technical Implementation

Overall, it consists of whole 2 versions of technical implementation with audio (spatial sound effect) and 3D generative visuals. Beginning from Storytelling artefacts from ‘Field recording’ method to analyzing computing programs such as ‘Max/Msp’ and ‘Cinema 4D’ to generate wave form and 3D spatial visual.

With Spatial sound experience for audience, I approached and created wave pieces in Max/Msp’. Particularly, By applying two specialized technique such as ‘Multi-Channel Panning’ and ‘Spatialization’ in Max/Msp, I created patch to live record the spatial sounds coming out from my laptop. The recorded spatial sounds were used in wave spectrogram and 3D wave scape artefact, according to Cipriani A., ‘Electronic Music and Sound Design'.

Lastly, I generated wave visual effects inspired by species such as goose and ducks rippling and living in the lake. The video below is for how I specially applied technical aspects 'Spatial / Multichannel' Sound experience.

Have glimpses of the highlight animations below !