A9 | Noora | Smell Notes
A9: Smell Notes | Vicky Cen
In class exercise
I wanted to create a language system to describe smells. I did research on the primary odours that people can smell and differentiate easily. I disagreed to some of the descriptive words so I changed them. Just like a clock, the hour hand points the dominant odour and the minute hand points to the minor odour. This is a rough version of the smell clock. There could be more obvious smells and a second hand on the clock. The reason for creating this clock-like system is that odours are often complicated because there are a mix of different smells. This system tells the strong and weak smells. Also, the smell description is clear and accurate. For example, the smell could be ‘really fruity’, ‘minty-fruity’ or ‘fruity-floral’.
Assignment 9
Back alleys are always associated with bad smells. I wanted to visualize what brings that bad smell and how strong the smells are. I highlighted the sources of smell. The dispersed wave shows the intensity of the smell from each source. Some strong smells are garbage bins, carbon dioxide from the vehicle, and the general moist/moldy smell at the alley. It is interesting to find that the smell of vehicle is stronger than chemical smell from the new building in construction, and it diffuses to a long distance
A9: Smell Notes
Berend Kessler
A8 – Sound – Josh Fender
For this assignment I went out into my backyard at night and listened. Compared to the daytime sounds I noticed that most noise was indistinguishable.
A9- Smell Notes
Katie Hunks
In Class Assignment
Scent Mapping
A9_Wenwen Zhuang
A5 | Using our Hands | Jennifer Reid
In class activity:
Homework:
A9 | Kathryn
A8- Tuning in & Windplay
Katie Hunks
In Class Assignment: Analyzing Sound
Tuning In: An Experiment in Auditory Observation
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1BLkASzTNNEHqV4R5LdtcuMADTXbYyuZR?usp=sharing
Windplay
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1ABLrfIK47aNeSGHwCSalbtMT9dNOxdC4?usp=sharing
A8:Tuning in & Windplay | Vicky Cen
In class exercise
When I was standing at my backyard, I heard three types of sound: wind chime, neighbor talking, and noise in the atmosphere. I labelled their relationship as I am inside the cube. Then I recorded their frequency and duration in the diagram above.
Assignment 8
Tuning
I chose to use a more abstract drawing to visualize the sound experience for this assignment. I was standing outside of my house with my eyes closed. I hear and I imagine. This drawing is how I felt at that moment. I forgot about the physical world and I would imagine I am standing in the darkness. It was chilly outside. I heard dry leaves jumping on the ground. I heard a bus and a bird in far. There was a hammer or some smashes that was not loud but unpleasant. And these sounds were wrapped by a wave of noise in the atmosphere. I was in the center of a tornado. I felt insignificant and weak compared to that noise. I felt like I was standing on a wire. The noise seemed like holding me in balance on a wire, but it was actually pulling and pushing me in all directions.
Windplay
I made three pinwheels with three types of paper material: regular printing paper, flyer, tracing paper. They have different weights so I want to compare their movements in the wind.
It was not windy outside so I just blew them……