Seeingsound

Final Animation for Seeing Sound

In response to Ryoji Ikeda's 'One Minute', I created an animation documenting the routine of a University student. I attempted to echo the monotony and quietness of the sound by repeating the action of working - a movement that isn't generally fast paced or exciting, but is often done in a very quiet and solitary environment, and enforced this feeling of boredom by showing the figure falling asleep. The brief explosions of sounds are illustrated by scenes that are not as subdued, a party for one (often associated with students) and drinking a shot of coffee, both of which connote explosiveness, energy, and fast paced, powerful actions, and in the case of the party- loud noise. The fact that the sound piece ends in this louder, more violent way, for me, suggested a sense of unrest and something more sinister, and so I played on the feelings of repetition, work and becoming a drone like, leading to the metaphorical image of the human becoming a machine. Binary codes, that not only portray the bionic but are also repetitive, flash in and out of the animation to signify this, increasing their appearances' at the louder intervals to enforce the notion of unsettlement, becoming the final image to end on. The animation was also shot in a 16:9 format which is at current times a very popular format, signifying again the link between technology and human.