Installation

Ideation:

What is it?
An object that uses water to mimic music, including rhythm, tone, variations in volume. 

How does it work?
Water droplets fall from the top reservoir into the lower ones. I think I’ll use Tupperware probably

What does it represent?
I want to combine ambiance with musical expression, moving something common into somewhere “sacred” (like the gallery, or the room where we saw the performance presentations.) It’s also something mechanical, removing the expression of the artist completely. In other words, I’m giving life to something inanimate. that sounds so pretentious lol, I feel like a true artist now 🤣🤣🤣


Similar to minimalist music, I'm using repetition to take a single moment of sound and sort of "zoom in", and this sound changes and edits over time. You can hear the droplets hitting the water, which is layered upon the boxes vibrating against each other, which is layered upon the different frequencies emitted by the separate boxes. all of this becomes salient with this amount of repetition. The sound slowly grows and changes. Perhaps I'll add a swinging object somewhere, something to add more variation in tone.

Construction:

Self Critique:

Personally, I think almost every part of this project turned out well besides the issue with volume. The construction of the piece was a bit more complicated than I anticipated, so Having everything run so smoothly was definitely positive. The volume issue was caused by a couple different factors (room size, positioning, the position of the bowls) but most people still seemed to be able to hear the water dripping.

Over the course of the project, I unintentionally replicated the sound of raindrops falling from a roof, which added a bit to the conceptual meaning of the project as well.

All in all, it went quite well.