From digital to analogue.
This artwork will present music in visual way. My primary idea is to set up an interactive installation that involves viewers to play with. An electronic musical instrument will be placed and allow visitors to play, such as keyboard. When music is played, a traditional “analogue” style of visualization will appear, that is, some pigment may splash out and to create an amazing abstract painting. The whole process of “painting” is a kind of art, randomly transforming digital music into lively paintings. Settled with some light effect would make the whole process to be more energetic, in order to emphasize the transformation from boring to interesting stuffs. Also, visitors can even try to paint by themselves. Each key may connected to different color pigment, in results of making different paintings by playing different melody.
The above is the basic principle of the set up. Due to the limitation of space, it will be done in a small scale, probably within the size of the box given. May be the direction of the color splash will be adjusted to be vertical.
Let’s find if there any related artwork!
Transition is the main idea among these artworks. The artists are playing with the relationship between them.
Faces of human, particularly some famous ones are showed under mosaic pattern. It also shows how image presented in digital way which involves the values of pixels.
Resource:http://blog.misskl.com/index.php/2012/09/claw-world-analogue-digital-series-by-wbk/#.UR9Mdlr24Sg
This clock is also interesting that it is digital clock in large scale which made up of 24 small analogue clocks.
Resource:http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/digital-clock-made-of-24
The conversion between analogue and digital is really fascinating. After being inspired by those artworks, I decided to play with the transformation too. But to be creative, what about presenting it in a reverse way? That is from digital to analogue. As this artwork is required to cross media and I have learned some basic concept and skills of audio, drawing and installation throughout this course. It should be a great idea to mix them all.
Here are some pictures related to "analogue".
Resource:
http://www.adamdorman.com/rainmeter/1/11/
http://telecom.hellodirect.com/docs/Tutorials/AnalogVsDigital.1.051501.asp1
One of the above websites has discussed the relationship between analogue and digital that is “conversion”.
“As a technology, analog is the process of taking an audio or video signal (in most cases, the human voice) and translating it into electronic pulses. Digital on the other hand is breaking the signal into a binary format where the audio or video data is represented by a series of "1"s and "0"s. Simple enough when it's the device—analog or digital phone, fax, modem, or likewise—that does all the converting for you.” By Paul Wotel
I may simply define it as
Resource:
http://services.exeter.ac.uk/cmit/modules/the_internet/slides/ch05s02s01.html
This webpage also mentions that
· Traditional media is analogue
continuous transitions between sounds
· Computer-based media is digital
stepped transitions between sounds
music reduced to a stream of discrete whole numbers
There are so many pictures of clocks presenting these two concepts in the internet.
I can even simplify it as
Resource:
http://www.mathsisfun.com/time-clocks.html
http://www.softpedia.com/progScreenshots/Digital-Clock-Screen-Saver-Screenshot-23338.html
They are both presenting time but in different forms.
According Wikipedia, analogue has a variety of meanings. I am interested most about the meaning “in science”. Well…but it is still an abstract concept to me. I have realized that it is related to some scientific data which is continuous but not really static at all.
At the same time, I have found that it is generally compared with another term—“digital”. Somehow they might have the opposite meaning. Interesting.
What am I going to make...?Brain stroming now.
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