Assignment

Assignment 09

09, Emma Gosselin Leave a comment

In class exercise: documenting smells in English Bay and Stanley Park

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Smell notes: a smell walk through the back alleys of Dunbar on a cold, rainy afternoon. The sources of things I smelled are placed on a spectrum based on the strength of memory in the mind’s eye that was experienced when smelling each item. I compared smell-memory to vision since it is hard to describe without relating it to another sense.  General observations: the experience of smell and memory are highly personal. Also, it was difficult to access memories or emotions or associations with a lot smells – but particularly with the smells of artificial things. The strongest memories for me involved natural materials, plants and food.

Documentation of four smells experienced in Camosun Bog on a warm, dry, sunny afternoon. “Concoctions” of word associations are used to describe each smell. The smells were much stronger on the warm dry walk than on the cold rainy walk.

Sniffing the Seawall

09, Chris Rothery Leave a comment

The first spot to sniff was the seawall. It lended itself to a section as the smells followed a repeating structure along the shoreline with diffrent parts of the shoreline emitting diffrent scents and being carried by the wind.
This became a multisensory map because we had so much time.

The forest became a site plan because the space was organized more complexly and irregularly. The odor here was much more faint to my nose.

The weekend was a quidditch tournament so the most prominent scent came from running all day.

Caleb van der Leek – Assignment 08

08, Caleb van der Leek Leave a comment

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

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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.

Assignment08-Charlotte Chen

08, Charlotte Chen Leave a comment

Tuning in

I went to the open space near Harvey Reginald MacMillan Cairn on a rainy day testing out the differences of raindrops hitting different materials.

-umbrella (fabric)
-concrete
-vegetation leaves

Also, the gradual change of sound when a car was passing.

Windplay

I cut tracing paper into strips of different widths and fixed them on cardboard. I also included a tissue strip and the package of potato chips to find out different reactions of different materials.

In-class exercise

 

 

Assignment 8 – Sound Sketching

08, Tarea Heshka Leave a comment

I took my previous approach to sound sketching but implemented it in a louder indoor space rather than a soft outdoor space. Sounds here are much more muddled together than in the outdoor space where each sound could be pin pointed to a location. When inside an open concept cafe the sounds really do mix together creating this blanket of very loud flowing noise. It was hard to distinguish what was loudest at times since it was all continuous yet sporadic. Link to video here –  https://youtu.be/XCwbwKwMLFU

Not sure why my images are blurry.

Caleb van der Leek – Assignment 06

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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.

Renata Kisin – Assignment 08

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Tuning In

I sat on a bench near the seawall to listen to the sounds of False Creek. Even though there were no roads immediately adjacent, the hum of traffic was constant. The aquabus would near then float away, moving the water and creating waves. Cyclists would whiz by, the sound intensifying as they approached. Pedestrians and cyclists would pass, their feet pounding the pavement. A water feature rippled behind me.

After listening to the various sounds and noting where they were coming from, I attempted to draw what each sounded like if it were a line. I also noted the various topics of conversation I overheard — with covid being the most popular.

Recording 1: traffic, aquabus, water, pedestrians, runners, cyclist, crow

 

Recording 2: rattling bike, podcast playing on speaker, crow

 

Windplay

I created a windplay object out of paper from my recycling bin. I crumpled up each piece of paper and attached it to a string and hung them at different heights in a cluster. There was not enough wind on the day that I hung it outside to make a  substantial sound (see video) so I swung the object around and recorded the sound it made instead (see audio). The crumpled papers hitting each other create a rough and sharp sound, reminiscent of walking on fallen leaves in autumn.

 

Week 8: Chloe Naese

08, Chloe Naese Leave a comment

In-Class Assignment: Sounds around my building as a score [will revisit]

Tuning In Exercise: Mapping sounds on campus and their associations

Windplay Exercise:

I created a wind sculpture out of watercolor and trace paper. The watercolor paper served as a structural element from which to affix trace paper strips. First I created one that had a curvilinear spine with trace wrapped around it. Then I figured I would test out a second option, which was watercolor paper strip fixed in a circle with trace hanging from it. I initially brought them outside behind my apartment, but because it is a small park enclosed by mid rise buildings there was no wind. I moved to an alley way next to two high rises because I know there is always a wind tunnel there. The wind sculptures produced slightly different sounds:  the first one produced scrapping sounds as the trace hit the watercolor paper whereas the second created loud, shuddering, crinkly noises as the trace bumped itself.