For this assignment, I visited a newer residential project in Marpole, where I sat down, tried to document the sounds that I was hearing, and tried to categorize them into broad categories (represented in the graph below). I realized a few limitations to my approach as I was compiling the results:
- Because sounds are modular and vary in strength depending on the recorder’s position, they are not easy to represent statically, as in the graph I’ve made. I’m sure there exists better methods of doing so to represent and graph these sounds than the ones I did with the graph and 2 point-perspective.
- Sounds are not easy to categorize (Urban VS natural? Aggressive VS peaceful? Etc.). Again, there must be an approved and relevant method of classification somewhere, but I did not check it up.
- Noting and scaling the sounds accurately proves difficult and overwhelming for a single person. Here, apps or certain computer programs may prove useful.
For the wind sculpture, I generated a few images using Midjourney V4 in order and a basic prompt: “A simple urban sculpture that transforms wind into music.” Below are the resulting images, and my own alteration:
