Sneaky Sound System

So, I have a little confession to make. I snuck a look at the mdcm3002 (Advanced Media Production) site and saw the project brief.** This was about 4 or 5 days ago, and in that time I began to think about the project and what I could do with it.

This is the first part of some ideas I might explore this semester, concocted just before last weekend:

So,

The Lounge.

Ever since the beginning of (or, in fact, a little bit before then) last semester, I’ve always wanted to do a sound installation. I think part of the inspiration stemmed from one of my Gen-Eds (GENR0003: Spirit, Myth and Sacredness in Architecture – a Gen-Ed I highly recommend to everyone, although, I must warn you, it’s a 2 hour weekly lecture).

Basically one of the things that stuck out to me was that “architecture belongs to space and embraces time; true appreciation of architecture is one in which the observer moves, and the architecture stay still.”

If we take the idea of a lounge, which usually stays in the same place, people/observers, and thus sound, moves through that space that contains the lounge. Sound waves must travel through a medium of some sort; otherwise, how would we feel/hear them?

If we utilise the physical presence of the lounge, some scenarios that could be explored include:

+ different types of lounges (ie. a lounge in a hospital vs. a school office or something, vs. a lounge in a nightclub…)

+ lounge on moving day, the lifespan of a lounge (including op-shops, parties and the dump, etc…)

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The next blog post will include some half-past-midnight revelations from Sunday night/Monday morning.

** I did, in fact, put my hand up in response to whether anyone saw the 3002 site before the lecture, but then again, it was more of a tentative, half-raised one. Oops.