Invention booklet...the start of it it anyway

Here are some drawings I plan to put together, along with about ten others to make up a professional as possible looking booklet of inventions. Each drawing is of a sculpture that would make sound that may or may not exist/function - decide as you will!

Artist/inventordome continues...

Compilation series (clear photos)

 Just a quick post of the photos from the "Compilation" series, because the videos don't show them to their full visual capacity.

audio/visual balance?

 Audio visual crossover remains a talked about topic at the moment in contemporary art, I'm interested in how the artist and the viewer deals with it after years of debates around visual bias and value of sound as a medium. There are still stigmas around it (i.e. look to the debates around Susan Philipsz's work in the Turner Prize). With this in mind, this is the first experiment I've come up with using a computer that I took apart, so it still works, but is arranged differently to create a sculpture that I'm hoping will eventually play some interesting sounds. There's lots to play with, incl input and output jacks, a disk drive, but I'm tempted to set that stuff aside, perhaps making a turntable on top, making the needle pick up sound from a CD rom. I hope to balance sound and visual equally.

NPC

I was given two weeks to come up with some art, discovered about the neutrino particle in the news and had to do something about it. I wish I could have incorporated sound, but in this case, it didn't need it. Starting to get really interested in science/art combination. More artist/physicist experiments to come, I'm currently making a book of all of my ideas for inventions/sculptures, which is coming soon! Watch this space..

Compilation III

Third in the series - got my hands on a washing machine :D This is an edited version of the footage so I could fit it on here, so you get the most interesting bits in just two minutes. 

Ideally you would be involved in this piece, as participation is key to make it happen, BUT at least this video shows the sound and visual aesthetics. Got a lot of inspiration from Haroon Mirza for this series, loving his stuff at the mo.

Compilation II

Second in the series. Although I'm pleased with the outcome, it's probably the most "conventional" piece of sound art, given that it uses an amplifier, microphone and radio, which have previously been used by many artists to achieve interesting sounds. Saying this though, the film spool and straps of MDF do take you back to the slightly shabby feel of the other compilations.

The idea has been to deconstruct day to day objects as well, hoping to create sounds from putting them back together with other objects, testing how much sound can be made from object which we usually ignore the sound of or take that aspect of it for granted.

The quality of the videos have been a tad bit diminished through uploading them on to here, sorry!

                                          Compilation II
                                          Wood, metal, radio, film spool, microphone, amplifier
                                           (04/2011)

Compilation I

First in a series of sound sculptures called Compilations. This one took the least amount of time to create, and came, like all of these have from a pile of "junk". The role of object/audience/artist are challenged in this piece. It can be taken on various different levels: aesthetically, aurally and hopefully conceptually, depending on how you choose to view it. It's quite open to interpretation so I don't want to go on about what I think it all means, but I'd say it's more of an experience than a video, though at least you can see/hear the "performance in this small clip. 

                                          Compilation I
                                          Wood, metal, tin whistles, pendulum mechanism
                                           (2011)