the sound of a train passing by reminds me that I need to hone in on design and stop cruising around on the Internet for a while. Amongst other things, I did find an interesting sound installation on YouTube. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4096586/ (there should be a video clip instead of the link) The kid who made the video talks about some things that I find appropriate to using sound as part of my design for Perkins Underpass. His installation is about making music-making as intuitive as listening. He also talks about emergent systems, so it seems that the concept of emergence is following me around as well.
Like that video, most of my ideas for designing with sound at the site incorporate light and movement. I still don’t know what I will do to use sound as a design direction. I have some general design ideas, about what should go where, some theories, things I want the space to achieve and how it should make people feel. The hard part – the part that is hard for me at least – is turning those thoughts into images. It is like when you can understand a foreign language, but can’t really speak it. Can you draw a feeling if you have poor drawing skills? I can not. Same goes for drawing vague images that are in my head. A drawing class is definitely on the agenda for this summer. Would have been for last summer too if I had known. For some reason I thought it would be a skill taught as part of LSU’s curriculum. There is some kind of drawing “class” in Brooklyn called Drink and Draw – or something like that. Assuming I manage to pull off an internship this summer I will definitely spend some time there. What a brilliant idea. but for now, back to the scribble scrabble.
