sound circuit brainstorming
After completing the sound circuits today in class, I have been brainstorming as to how we could utilize them as relates to nature and technology. For one, I think it would be interesting to put the solar circuits somewhere around the Purdue campus in a planter or tree and watch the reactions of people as well the reactions of animals. I feel that animals on campus, like the squirrels, chipmunks, and birds, would respond more quickly to the new introduction to their environment than would students on campus. Additionally, as relates to sound based art, I think it would be intriguing to place the sound circuit somewhere in a room with either an east or west facing window and record the changes in the frequency of the sound produced throughout the day. From dawn till noon, or noon till dusk (depending on the location of the window), the perceived intensity of the sun would change that day in relation to the cloud coverage, perhaps altering the frequency and intonation of the sound produced by the circuit. As I find myself being drawn to music as well as a participant in making music, both instrumentally and vocally, I think this would be an interesting experiment since so much of music does relate to time. The tempo of a piece has to be exact. Otherwise, it won’t be performed correctly as a group and will sound pieced together and mismatched. I think that monitoring how the sun affects essentially the tempo of the sound circuits greatly emphasizes the technological aspect of music that is continuously created in our world.