Project 3 Progress_Anna Forbes

 This is my first progress post. Here is what I imagine sound art to look like. Abstract bursts of shapes and lines. I imagine it would be animated (although I have never done any animation before). 

This is my second progress post. I took several videos of sounds I hear daily around my house, including a clock ticking, piano playing, a food blender/chopper, geese honking, car horn honking, a soda fizzing, aluminum foil crinkling, leaves crunching, etc. I have inserted all the sound files into Premiere and am currently working on layering/ordering them. 

This is my third progress post. I arranged my sound files into a triangle-like shape. I wanted the sound to slowly build in volume (crescendo), then slowly lose volume (decrescendo). I layered sounds on top of one another, one at a time. I also found a classical piece of music and added it as my base sound. The other sounds add to the music, creating interest and excitement. I copy and pasted several of the files to extend the sounds over a longer period of time.

This is my fourth progress post. For my abstract image, I wanted to experiment with something a little different. I decided to create an abstract acrylic pour painting. Pour paintings are made with mixes of acrylic paints and pouring medium. After the paint and medium is mixed together, the mixtures are poured onto a canvas. The canvas is then rotated or spun to get the desired composition. For this painting, I blew into a straw to push the paint across the canvas in different directions. I also tilted the canvas to achieve my desired composition. My idea behind the image is that the building of color relates to the building of sound in my video. As the sound builds, you can see me adding more paint to the canvas. When the sound is at its loudest, you can see me blowing on the paint and tilting the canvas. When the sound fades back down, you can see the finished painting. I also added some different color filters at the beginning of the video and decreased the opacity of the final painting image; this keeps the viewer from seeing how the painting actually looks until the end. However, the viewer can see the process of creating the image throughout the video. 

This is my fifth progress post. In order to get a good effect of a crescendo and decrescendo in my sound, I made a crescendo and decrescendo within each sound clip by adjusting the volume bar. For example, in my music clip, I added several cuts and adjusted the bar within each segment. You can see this effect in the screenshot below. I also added cross dissolve/exponential fade transitions to some of my clips.

My overall idea is that the building and fading of these household sounds can represent our daily lives. The music represents the day, the clock ticking as the day goes on. Other noises are added throughout the day, and fade away as night comes. My painting resembles one thing I might do during the day, the building of color corresponding to the building of sounds. The sounds and colors might represent accomplishments or activities during the day. One might describe the end of the day as a finished painting.