User:Chen Junyu/Graduation Project Seminar/project proposal/Proposal

Proporsal A

Introduction

After the research for EMO ( Giants and Little People http://pzwart3.wdka.hro.nl/wiki/User:Chen_Junyu/graduation/theise/project_proposal/Draft:EMO and a rough study on Fairytale http://pzwart3.wdka.hro.nl/wiki/User:Chen_Junyu/graduation/theise/project_proposal/EMO), I have moved slightly further with the word "Scale". Since we born in this world, the scale of the world for us is always changing, it changes with the grow and shrink of our physical body, also relies on the understanding or emotion to the world. And generally we stand only at the human being's point of view, the world which is heard and seen by other species, is mostly "inexistent" for us (we know it is existent, but we don't feel it is existent normally). So what I want to do for this project is to push ourselves to a different view of seeing the world.( as a micro creature?) I have the idea about "recording sound from a plant" for some time. I would like to use sound recorded from plants as part of the final work. Amplifier and frequency is two main factor of sound, and for the sound generated inside plants, the scale of these two factors are extremely low. It can be understood as the "little people" in the nature sound world ( Natural sounds are sounds produced by natural sources in their normal soundscape. It is a category whose definition is open for discussion.. Wikipeida -natural sound).

Relation to previous practice

When I started thinking the topic of the graduation project, I traced back to my old works before I came to PZI, most of them are illustrations. Then I realised in these drawings, little people or giants, the comparison of the scale between human and other species took a large part. Surely "scale" is an effective factor in different kinds of artwork, especially in drwaings and sculptures, I still wanted to dig out what is the point attracting me so much.

Relation to a larger context

Still do not have enough research for related theories, here are just some thoughts for the potential directions for the larger context.

• for this project, what does reality mean?

Practical steps

In order( at least for now):

• Working on prototypes for sound/visual, collect and analyse attractive installations，add--reduce.
  • Sound

Tried with a DIY contact microphone to record the sound from the tree in the yard of PZI by infixing the Piezo into the trunk，failed.

• • Visual

• Reading and reading. ( Virtual art -- the illusion to immersion and something else..)

Jez Riley French－－ Audible Silence

A sound artist who has spent most of his live on listening to environments. He recorded a lot of sound from small creatures, such as bees and ants, also creatures in sea such as periwinkles eating sea grass.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i44DDWfkS5I "natural composition"

Bernie Krause--Soundscape

http://tedxtaipei.com/2013/10/bernie-krause-the-voice-of-the-natural-world/ Bernie Krause

• The Soundscape composed by :

1.Geophny 2.Biophony 3.Anthrophony Through recording sound in landscape, Bernie Krause observes the influence to environment which is caused by urban expansion.

Raoul Brand

Sound recording inside of a 80ft chestnut tree (contact microphone) https://soundcloud.com/raoul-brand/tree-2612/s-2RqA5

Visual

Microwold's Photography by Daniel Stoupin http://www.microworldsphotography.com/ Make a microscope with a laser pen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sJNhhansZg

References

Oliver Grau Virtual Art -- From Illusion To Immersion

Max Luthi The Fairytale as Art Form and Portrait of Man