During the listen project we were asked to create a piece of
work based on a sound that we either loved or hated. I thought about these
sounds a lot and decided that I wanted to respond to a sound that I liked,
however I found it difficult to choose a sound as it was hard to pick out a
sound that I really liked/loved. I initially thought about the sound of silence
and every day background noises, but I settled on the idea of conversations and
the sounds of people’s voices. On the
other hand while I was researching and trying to find sounds I liked I did
discover a lot of sounds that I dislike/hate.
I used water colour paint to create my pieces, I decided
that I wanted to create a few small A6 pieces that responded to the sounds of
conversations, to do this I listen to the conversations of people around me and
used black paint to create abstract shapes that sort of mapped out the
structure of the conversations, I did this by using the paint darker in areas
of the conversation where the speech was more intense or spoken quicker and
added more water to the paint to make it lighter in the areas of speech where
there was less said or it was quieter. Also the position of the paint relates
to where people were standing during the conversation.
I feel than these pieces worked out well and became hugely abstract
and interesting and in a way became a map of sounds and speech. And I think you
can really grasp a sense of the mood of the conversations from the intensity or
lack of paint.
To develop this further I would like to study/respond to
more varying conversations by a lot of different people, as some of my pieces
look very similar, this may be because they are all of the same people talking
and all in quite a short space of time/ about similar topics.
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