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Caleb van der Leek – Assignment 08

Assignment 08:

Trying to understand how sound shapes space or how space can be shaped to change sound perception.

The shapes of sounds as they are understood by me with their audible inflections and abruptness alongside how they fade in and out in volume.

Grey – Continuous Low Tones

Pink – Intermittent Middle Tones

Yellow – Abrupt High Tones

This was my understanding of the space around my residence building and along the open field and garden portions of the exterior space. I wanted to categorize the sounds more generally rather than specifically recognizing any particularly sounds producers. As well I wanted to illustrate that even if an area like the top left was very quiet, almost silent, there was still an overarching low tone that fills the space.

WIND OBJECT

Caleb van der Leek – Assignment 07

In-Class Exercise:  

Assignment 07:

I used this assignment to interrogate the spatial qualities of the bathroom space in my student apartment. I wanted to look at the space through the idea of compression and sensorial micro-moments. Due to my size and the scale of the bathroom there is an almost continuous gradient of compressed feeling in the bathroom. The number of steps I take in the space have very little rhythm or composition. To manoeuvre my frame around it require many small steps to position myself in space.

The micro moments progressions show both the act of moving to the shower space and how my body interacts with that on a physical level, and the other is the progression of washing my hands.

The most confusing interaction is with the inward swinging door which to access the cupboards under the sink, you need to move around the perimeter of the door as you swing it open in order to then close it.

Caleb van der Leek – Assignment 06

In-Class Assignment:

Assignment 06:

Attempting to analyze all of the sensorial aspects around me through an abstraction of my physical self as receptacle of sensorial input.

Thinking about how sensorial perception of materials is shaped by the environment they exist in. A warm wood bench in a sun ray is a pleasant experience to find ones self in while that same bench on a colder rainy day could find one feeling damp. Sensorial perception is then not only about the objects that inhabit a space, but how external forces impact how those perceptions are relayed to us.

For this portion of the analysis I attempted to use a LIDAR scan from my iPad as a way to capture space and thus annotate more clearly on it the sensorial aspects of the space I was in. Using this scan as well would allow one to revisit the sensorial pocket of space they were in previously and re-examine the conditions they found themselves in. To notice again the perception of the concrete paving stones, blotchy with moisture from that mornings rain. A streaky wood grain turning green from moss in portions. And a cold metal armrest, reflective of the mood of the day.