"If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of Energy, Frequency and Vibration"I learned throughout the lecture many different ways of interpretation sound through paper, frequency, animation, harmonics, and more digital responses such as Adobe, it allowed a wide range of material to be presented throughout the lecture and inspired me to really try something that was out of my comfort zone.
One artist, Leon Thermin, was a contemporary of Joseph Schillinger (a mathematician who explored music in the 1930's). The video shows Theremin playing his own instrument he created, a new form of electronic instrument using oscillation, titled 'the Thermin' - to me it's amazing how old the video clearly is and how different responses to sound can be based on your profession.
Although we looked over a lot more dated works; like Robert Hooke, Earnst Chland, my real interest lied in the more digital responses presented near the end of the lecture - they were something that would prove quite useful in terms of research and inspiration, and they are more interesting to me as I much prefer modern styles of design and art:
Digital responses and music software have given us so many more opportunities and chances to create expression-ate pieces, as well as the ability to undo and recreate any mistakes, use tools such as Adobe software like Audition, After Effects, Photoshop which although modern, allow the capability of using the visual language that was much older. Adobe Audition presents sound as a waveform - much like oscilloscope, and this is something that we've all grown accustomed to seeing although the process is really old. It's interesting to see that a lot of the more older techniques around sound are coming forward still today, and act as main inspiration.
I was far more enticed into the digital work that was shown, such as Brian Eno, or using Cinema 4d to create a filmic piece, as these look to me like they have a lot of work put into them and visually look beautiful, it really inspired me to try animation out to see if I had any talent towards it, which I will be doing throughout my entire project. Although most of this lecture looked at previous forms of music responses, it was still interesting to me.
