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Some More on Sound Artists

Matthew Herbert:

A sound artist who documents the life of a pig and its symphony of sounds from birth to death. Hebert is the height of eclecticism and completely dominates his field for the most original idea and soundtrack. Here's a snippet from the article:

"Last August, music producer Matthew Herbert (above) invited 40 people to a restaurant in Farringdon, London, to eat a pig -- on condition that he could record them doing so. Ten chefs, including Ramsay alumnus Jason Atherton and offal-specialist Fergus Henderson, cooked ten courses, from spiced braised pig's head to fried tail. Guests took their food to a corner of the room where a sound technician asked them to "chew as loudly as possible, please" into two microphones. "I wanted to acknowledge every bite of it," says Herbert."

Catherine Yass:

A sound artist who investigated the creative potential of destruction by the sounds of scrapes and smashes in her project Piano Falling. 

Yann Seznec:

A sound artist who makes synthesizers that fit in jam jars, and has given mushroom spores a voice.

Ronald van der Meijs:

A sound artist who the brains behind  a project called Sound Architecture IV that is made from 5,000 repurposed bicycle bells set on steel pins.

 Daniel Palacios:

“A long piece of rope represents a series of waves floating in space, as well as producing sounds from the physical action of their movement: the rope which creates the volume also creates the sound by cutting through the air.”

 Luka Fineisen:

A german sound artist who has scattered giant bubbles throughout a gallery floor

Céleste Boursier-Mougenot:

A sound artist who installed a piece that allowed 40 finches to hop delicately through a dense matrix created from hundreds of metal hangers causing vibrations and clinks that mix with the birds natural songs. 

And finally, a sound experience created by artists:

Wet Sounds effectively creates three sound spaces in the physical space of the swimming pool. One inside the water, one outside the water and one a merger of the two as the listener floats on the surface of the water. Touring swimming pools, it presents listening sessions to a floating and diving audience in the water. The participants are fully immersed in sound. Free to move weightlessly in the sound space. Wet Sounds, created by Joel Cahen, first toured 10 cities in the UK in July 2008.

Hit, Play, Pause.

"Pause Fest is a springboard for creative industries that operate within the digital realm to meet, inspire, learn, launch and collaborate. Our ambition is to enable creative collaborations around the globe and to promote digital culture as the focal point of an annual festival."

Pause Festival 2014 is expanding onto our creative horizons quickly! If you're wondering what I'm talking about, the event is a creative conglomeration of sorts that celebrates the extraordinary achievements of some of the greatest creatives, artists, entrepreneurs and idea makers of digital culture. From its launch it has put Croatia and Perth on the creative map.

I, Who Have Arrived In Heaven

This weekend I  emerged from Yayoi Kusama's Infinity Room in the David Zwirner Gallery a new person. Calmer, feeling like i had truly just arrived in heaven. The exhibit on 19th Street in Chelsea employs 45 seconds in a mirror-lined room hung with 75 colored LED bulbs that flicker and pulse in an other-wordly experience. I discovered that on a normal day , about 2,500 people venture on this brief trip to Ms. Kusama’s private cosmos.  It's one of those experiences that no hard-won adjectives can express, you must see it's ethereal beauty for yourself. I highly suggest anyone is planning on visiting NYC over break to take a little pitstop at the David Zwirner Gallery since it's free admission and the exhibit is underway until mid December, but do make sure to get there in the AM since the lines are spilling into the streets halfway into the afternoon!

Sound Artists

1. Maryanne Amacher
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=px2mz5ObenQ

2. Bill Fontana

3. Rod Summers

audition tips

http://www.premiumbeat.com/blog/audio-tools-adobe-audition/

This site gives tips on cleaning up sound in audition.

Sound

Heres just a cool videos of people manipulating water by using sound waves. The sound coming from the speakers causes the hose to move in different directions and the slow motion camera caputes this.

Foley Sound By Sound Ideas

Foley is the process of creating sound effects live in a studio to match a pre-recorded piece of video. A variety of props are used to create sound effects that can't properly be captured on set. Watch two foley artists bring an action sequence to life with perfectly synchronized sound effects!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OONaPcZ4EAs

Although this isn't any specific artist, I think this would be fun to do. Creating sound effects that will later be edited and put into the film. Sound seems to play a big role in scenes of movies.

Sound Artist

Doug Aitken

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6O30JMQK1w

 "Sonic Fountain," in which water drips from 5 rods suspended from the ceiling, falling into a concrete crater dug out of the gallery floor. The flow of water is controlled to create specific rhythmic patterns that will morph, collapse and overlap in shifting combinations of speed and volume, which create a  symphonic structure of song. The water itself appears milky white, chemically altered by its aural properties, a basic substance turned supernatural. The amplified sound of droplets conjures the arrhythmia of breathing, and along with the pool's primordial glow, the fountain creates its own sonic system of tracking time. I find the audio to be very interesting it's all about timing and rhythm.

Sound Artist

Red Stripe - Make Something From Nothing with Yuri Suzuki 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdnXaSotHt4

This is really cool! The Artist/Musician is constantly in search of a new sound. The constructed this structure out of recycled beer cans that allows them to do so. 

"Make Something from Nothing, the first of a series of cultural projects called 'Make with a Red Stripe', features a unique sound sculpture created by sound artist Yuri Suzuki, in collaboration with DJ Al Fingers, singer/songwriter Gappy Ranks and designer Matthew Kneebone. The 2.5 meter high, fully functioning sound sculpture is made using thousands of recycled Red Stripe beer cans partly collected at this year's Notting Hill carnival. The project celebrates the DIY culture of the brand's Jamaican roots, with Reggae, Dub and Jamaican music influences as well."

Sound Artist

Mike Kramer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vYi7HmQhqU

Although this video does not seem very interesting the concept behind the piece is very unique. Because not everyone pays attention to the everyday sounds that occur around them.

"About the work; the concept of 'whispering wall' is to capture micro sounds hidden in the region where normal hearing won't allow us. In daily situations things like for instance objects, animals, humans, wind, etc... interact with the surfaces of walls producing sounds of which we usually aren't aware of or paying no attention to. With the use of contact microphones these tiny 'whispers' have been captured and in some cases modified."

Sound Artist

Ed Osborn

http://www.roving.net/soundworks/standardploy.html

Standard Ploy is a sound performance piece which finds its life in the fissures that occur between the origins of a sound, the meaning it carries, and the effects upon that meaning it brought about by its transmission through an electronic medium. During the course of the piece, the sounds of a performer gradually become temporally disassociated from the physical actions undertaken to produce them. This perceptual disjuncture is partially offset by a slowly emerging clarity of some musical elements and by the overall lushness of the timbres employed. Standard Ploy serves as a commentary on the process of electronic audio information transfer and the extreme mediating influence that advanced technologies have upon musical performance. 

I found the distortion and change of the sound very odd yet curious. 


 

John Cage Documentary

johncage.org

Sound Artist

Lawrence Chandler- is an American-born musician, composer, and sound artist living in London. He studied with La Monte Young, at The Juilliard School, and Goldsmiths College. He was a music and studio assistant for Philip Glass and a founder member of Bowery Electric

Lance Dann is the founder of Radio Art group Noiseless Blackboard Eraser (1994–2007) and former Associate Member of The Wooster Group. He studied Radio at Goldsmiths' College and produced a number of experimental radio programmes for Festival Radio Productions' Brighton based RSL radio stations during the early 1990s


Moondog, born Louis Thomas Hardin (May 26, 1916 – September 8, 1999), was a blind American composer, musician, poet and inventor of several musical instruments. Moving to New York as a young man, Moondog made a deliberate decision to make his home on the streets there, where he spent approximately twenty of the thirty years he lived in the city. Most days he could be found in his chosen part of town wearing clothes he had created based on his own interpretation of the Norse god Odin Thanks to his unconventional outfits and lifestyle, he was known for much of his life as "The Viking of 6th Avenue"

Nam June Paik (July 20, 1932 – January 29, 2006) was a Korean American artist. He worked with a variety of media and is considered to be the founder of video art. He was married to the video artist Shigeko Kubota in 1965. Paik is credited with an early usage (1974) of the term "electronic super highway" in application to telecommunications

Wolf Vostell (14 October 1932 Leverkusen – 3 April 1998 Berlin) was a German painter and sculptor and is considered one of the early adopters of Video art and Environment/Installation and pioneer of Happening and Fluxus. Techniques such as blurring and Dé-collage are characteristic of his work, as is embedding objects in concrete and the use of television sets in his works

tips

http://www.creativebloq.com/after-effects/pro-after-effects-tips-2122712
AE TIPS

Are We Blogging Because it's Cool?

I've been convinced that blogging doesn't necessarily help you to sell art but it does help you make better art. In "Are We Blogging Because It's Cool" by Alyson Stanfield (http://www.artbizblog.com/2007/03/are-we-blogging-just-because-its-cool.html), the question is answered in the most precise and innovative way I could have imagined. Read on to discover the often "real-world" benefits of art blogging!

"If you like, think about it this way: If you made a flyer and posted it in a very public place, you’d get people who happened upon it to read about your exhibit or art or event. Fine and good. That’s kind of like your website. It’s relatively static and stays in one place. BUT, if you made a flyer and copied it 100 times and posted it in 100 places, you’d get that many more people to read about what you have going on. That’s your blog in the most simplistic terms, but it’s really more than that. Blogging lets you leave your virtual footprint all over the Internet. The Web LOVES sticky content. The more you’re connected–the more posts you make, the more links you leave on your blog, the more comments you leave on other blogs–the more you’re loved by the search engines."

Blog on!

Sally Man and the Infamous cigarette smoking little girl

Who is she? And what is a 10 year old doing puffing away? These questions have plagued the everyday people that have accidentally discovered Mann's work. In a documentary called "What Remains: The Life and Work of Sally Mann"we learn that the mysterious child rebel is actually her own daughter who isn't a chain smoker but a transmitter for a powerful message. For me, the defiant girl with the candy cigarette burns a hole in my retina--no matter how many times I look I always want to look away. It tells a story--perhaps of those blind footsteps from childhood to adulthood. This is impact. This is honesty.

The concept of art bettering yourself

I'm talking about art that is has healing powers for those who write them, gives hope to people who identify with a stranger's secret, and has created an anonymous community of support. Im talking about the history of Post Secret. Frank Warren started the website as a experiment on Blogspot, posting stories on postcards that began with a secret and ended as a hope. The success of Post Secret has undeniably skyrocketed from a little blog into a worldwide phenomenon. Even CSI has paid homage to Warren's creation. I like how one man made the concept of a "secret" into an art form. 

http://www.humansofnewyork.com

I'm starting to really love art that captures the human spirit. This photographer has created something so entirely relatable. The project grew from what was a couple of photographs of strangers and their stories to a daily spread on Instagram, it's own website and a published book. It's art that i find endearing since we can all connect to it and understand it in one way or the other. I follow Humans of New York on Instagram--it's nice to follow as artist whose hubris is both empowering and refreshing. 

Touching Strangers

"We think these great photographs have something positive to say about human connection... about a diverse society in which people have been taught not to touch each other but in which we can and do transcend the boundaries set around us."

Richard Renaldi is one of the many artists whose work I have fallen head over heels in love with almost instantly. In the piece that converted me into a Rinaldi worshipper, he nabs strangers off the street and situates them close together for a quick portrait. This is yet another artist we've looked at that bases his work on the beauty of the human experience.
The too-close-for-comfort vibe makes for really unique, personal art.

"Those Green M&Ms that are Bat their Eyelashes in Commercials are Hiding Terrible Secrets"

It's sad but true. In today's age we won't pay attention to any kind of PSA unless it's got a really cool aesthetic. Maybe it's Apple's fault. This little slideshow I've posted packs the power an image has on information . Our generation tunes into anything that enraptures our visual attention. I'm loving new-world displays of factual information superimposed onto a creative design. Good design, important health facts. 

Eric Lanz - Video Art

Take a look at his work: http://www.ericlanz.net

GREEN SCREEN DON'TS.

Green Screens are very cool to use, but are very sensitive at the same time. There are a lot of things that you have to make sure are correct in order to get the quality that you want. A way to get what you want you can simply just follow these five Do's & Don'ts.

http://christiansorensenhansen.com

Ski Lift from the snowboard point of view

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLz5EEZiiLs&list=PL062A4EEE0C0EDE0F 

Snowboarding from the boards point of view 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvM-N-3m_bI&list=PL062A4EEE0C0EDE0F

I found these videos interesting because it allows viewer to see things in a whole new perspective. Also known as a "worms eye view" of things.

Rage Against the Mundane      

       

I found this video to be comical because one person is moving through his daily activities in a normal way. The other guy over exaggerates his actions. I like the use of audio in this video. The music tends to get more up beat and crazy when the overly enthused guy comes on the screen. The music switches to something more calm as the other person is being filmed.

"Point of View" a short film by Doug Smith

This is a short POV film based on the character's daily life.  I was really inspired by this and i plan on making my own POV short film for the next project.

Paint Dance

This is a very interesting clip from Youtube that sort of fits into what we do in this class. These guys take regular everyday objects and things and use a very high tech camera to see what goes down in slow motion. In this unique video they simply put paint on a speaker, add some sound to it and then film the paint splashing up. In real time it just looks like paint splattering everywhere, but in slow motion it looks as if the paint was "dancing" around.

inspiration for project 4
http://vimeo.com/34773713


Breaking Bad // POV from kogonada on Vimeo.

google

I was going to search on google to find a graphic design post to blog about when i came across an interactive video on the search engine page. Its an video for the 216th anniversary parachute jump. it was quite fun to play with and made me lose track of what i had in mind so i decided to share my thoughts with you all.

www.google.com

Fan stop motion music videos

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7YPPw4etfs
^ Not only do I love this song and band, a fan used stop motion to create her own music video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkAVQfS8ZEw
^ This video was amazing. I thought it was so creative

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwF-L5iRDcs
^Another great example of a creative stop motion music video.

Watch this!

then watch how they did it below, so cool!

tips for stop motion on after effects

http://www.instructables.com/id/Stop-Motion-Animation-using-After-Affects/?ALLSTEPS

This post had great tips on how to use after effects for stop motion animation.

Food For Thought

This one's for all of you that still like to play with their food. Danielle Evan's way is just a bit more sophisticated. I really like when two things come together that look so wrong that it becomes right somehow. I've been seeing food typography pop up all over the artistic sphere lately--Tumblr, Pinterest, Blogs--you name it.

Click on the link to see target utilize food as font in their ad campaigns.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaVI43q3Qn4

The New World of Printing

There is a printer that fabricates almost anything on your desktop by building it up layer by layer through an additive process which eliminates all complex shapes. Instead of spitting out ink these printers spit out bits of plastic. This is our future. 

If you haven't already guessed what I'm talking about it's 3D Printing. Completely and Utterly revolutionizing the game out there for designers. We've officially eliminated the barrier between the flat surface and the artist. 

After Effects; Light Blue Particles. 

After Effects Text Animation

I think this is really cool. I like the use of the design and the text.

AE tips

http://www.motionarray.com/blog/item/28-10-tips-for-the-beginner-adobe-after-effects-user/28-10-tips-for-the-beginner-adobe-after-effects-user

This blog has a lot of good tips for beginners using After Effects.

Projection Mapping On the Next Level

Projection mapping is everywhere nowadays. Film, design, architecture, Marilyn Monroe's face even. Box is the culmination of Prepare to be mesmerized if this is your first viewing. This is a pretty sweet little scientific experiment all tied up with bow--live projection mapping of 3D computer graphics on two 2D screens attached to robotic arms. The result? Simply incredible.

Claymation

Working on a stop motion animation is hard enough but a claymation? I can't imagine the level of skill and patience. If it seems like were doing a lot, I urge you to check out the professionals. The dedication. Mindblown.

Stop Motion Tutorial: Facial Animation

I thought this was pretty neat it gives you tips on how to animate clay facial expressions.

Animated in Bed

This is a great example of stop motion animation! I thought it was really cool and well done.

Paper Motion Animation

This is an stop motion animation made out of paper.

Paper Motion Animation

This is an stop motion animation made out of paper.

Beatles Flash Video

Beatles flash video

Here's a really cool flash video done of the famous band The Beatles. You can tell the video is flash because all the animation done in it. It's really interesting what people can do with a simple computer program

flash tips

http://www.trainstation.cc/Tutorials/Flash/flashtutorials.html

These are some tips for using flash that may come in handy.

stop animation examples

These examples of Rube Goldberg animations are the look that Issaka and I will be aiming for when we make  our project.  Although these are cgi, they show many of the concepts and camera angles that we would like to use

BATMAN: DARK KNIGHTFALL - STOP MOTION ANIMATION (HD)

This amazing Batman stop-motion movie was created using D.C comic action figures. The creator of this video used strictly batman figures and crops from the film. i found this video amazing because not only am i a fan of Batman, the time and dedication it took to make such a video fascinated me.

Stop Motion Animation. Magic Water

This stop motion clip is about magic water that can break down to any object by any means. The creator of the animation used blue clay through out the video. playing and making different patterns and shapes from frame to frame.

Stop Motion Animation. Magic Water

This stop motion clip is about magic water that can break down to any object by any means. The creator of the animation used blue clay through out the video. playing and making different patterns and shapes from frame to frame.

stop motion

This is just an interesting stop motion of two guys and their tshirts. they must have done a million different shirts to show all the movements in them. Its nuts

This stop motion is interesting cause it uses outside items to add to the story!

This is the coolest one that i've seen yet! the whole motion animation is done with post-it notes and also done throughout the guys house. It must've taken thousands of pot it notes and many many hours to complete this animation

Courage The Cowardly Dog Stop Motion

I choose this stop motion animation to relate our idea to because of the various exaggerated facial expression that Courage makes. He also makes an appearance in his "world" in our story.

Flower and Fire Love Story

This is a little relevant to our animation idea because it involves the four elements, fire, water, earth, and wind. We have a very different use of the elements that allow our character to interact with each condition.

Stop Motion

I think this is a great example of stop motion animation because it flows smoothly through the animation and is kind of funny.

Stop Motion

I found this interesting because it is a stop motion animation using cut outs of drawings. I also think that it has a great use of sound.

Super-Mario--Post it Version

A stop animation that's packs an entertaining punch along with fluidity, interesting storyline and great inspiration comes Super Mario post its. This is a stop animation rendered completely in post its that took over 7,000 posts it to complete. It's 100 percent worth a look (or two). 

Old School Disney

Classic disney genius is rooted in foundations........Storyboards!

In honor on of our current class project, I'm posting a storyboard of the original dumbo animation. 

As someone who is seriously fond of detail, this just blew my mind. Check out the values!

stop motion dry erase

I think this stop motion is very cute and well done.

stop motion

I thought this stop motion animation was really interesting. They used candles to create the movement. It was very creative and well done.

three walk cycles

These walk cycles show the characters from the pixar movie monsters inc.  I like comparing the two because you can see how the the two charachters have different personalities based on the exageraded movements.



I like this video because it shows a 360 degree camera view of the character as well as different personality types of each characters based on their walk.

walk cycle

This walk cycle is a very simple sketched out animation. You can really see the movement very easily.

This walk cycle shows stages of walking at different ages. However, it doesn't focus on one stage for long.

This walk cycle was helpful because it is very over-exaggerated. You can see which was each limb is moving. 

Walk animation

These walk animations are very simple but behind the scenes theres actually a lot going on. All three clips involve the characters walking forward, but and as they walk you notice their whole body moving. The secondary motion of the ear and clothing makes these animations come to life. Without the bending of the knees and the movement of the other joints these 2D clips would look awkward and like robots.

Ant's eye view of person walking.

This short animation emphasizes on how the body would move when the camera is looking at an ants eyes view. It also uses secondary motion to show the movement of the cloak.

Side View

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCLV_j8qkuo

For some reason I could not get this video to upload, so I posted the link that will bring you to the video. This Animation briefly moves through the walk cycle as it does you'll notice it does not have arms. But the character body still has a sway/ bounce movement to it as it takes each step.

Behind View

Here is a behind the character view of the walking cycle. Although his lego body walks kind of stiff, he still moves through the walking cycle with the right movement. 

Johnny Bravo Walk Cycle

Here the realistic movement of the character comes from the thrust of the arms as they sway almost violently when he walks. Timing plays a critical role in straight-ahead motion as it establishes Johnny Bravo's weight and communicates his personality clearly to the audience.

Ren's (From Ren & Stimpy) Walk Cycle

Exaggerated use of follow-through and overlapping action makes Ren's walk sad and lethargic. This walk cycle was picked specifically for its utilization of the camera angle. After he drags on for a bit across the desert, the camera zooms in for an extreme closeup which creates a second background formed by the camera angle. In this example the animator is still visibly able to show Ren is walking in a close-up angle by "squashing and stretching" frame to frame.

Bunny Walk Cycle 

This short clip emphasizes the animation principle of exaggeration and how important this element is to animating any kind of walk cycle. Albeit dramatic, the character's definitiveness of foot placement demystifies secret to the walk cycle process. The hard flop of the bottom of the feet to the floor is what creates tension in the walk--watch how vertical the slope of his foot becomes as it prepares for lift off and then the slope of it as it goes down.

Front view walk cycle

This is called the front view walk cycle. It  shows a person walking straight down the sidewalk with a front camera view showing the full body in motion.

Walk Cycle - Birds Eye View

This is the birds eye view angle. it simply shows a female walking with her head down. this is a simple and  cool camera angle of person walking.

Normal Walk Cycle

This is a simple normal walk cycle. it demonstrates a normal walk of a human being from the swing of the arms, hips and stride of legs from different angles.

Birthday post

In honor of my birthday, here's a animation of a dog blowing up a birthday cake.

stop motion multimedia

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7P-fwgUYbg

I thought this was an interesting stop motion video on multimedia. The use of post-its and making the scene into a computer game is very unique.

Robot Fight Scene, 3D Animation

This clip also shows anticipation before the two robots begin to fight. the spacing between the two robots showed great pose to pose action especially right before the final blow towards the end.

Animation Principles: Toy Story

This is a great little animation because it shows so many of the principles throughout it. Some of the most obvious ones are when the camera looks around Buzz and creates a great sense of anticipation. It makes you think of his actual chances of flying, even though he's a toy. Another clear would be the timing and motion principle. When Buzz jumps you can tell he's light by the length of his jump, but still a solid object when he falls to the ground.

This short clips gives people a great sense of squash and stretch. As weazy move and coughs, his body gets bigger and smaller. This one property alone helps you believe he's actually coughing.

Although a lot of things are going on in this clip, one that I like the most is the secondary motions going on. The clearest one to me is as Jessie is dancing with Buzz, her hair is still moving around as they are going through the motion. It's makes you believe that the two are life like and not just two toys

This clip is actually pretty funny to watch, but what makes it so great is the exaggeration throughout. They make the whole scene seem like rex is a huge and scary dinosaur, but in reality he is just a one foot toy. Also the scenery with the other toys gives it the feeling of a scary bath time story that the little girl is pretending to make.

This iconic ending has a lot to it. The principles within are obvious when looking for them. One it the principle of secondary motion. You can see this when the two toys are flying through the streets and Woody's cheeks are moving. That would only happen if you were going really fast. Another is the anticipation principle. You get real nervous when they are falling because they make it seem like they're  going to hit the ground. Last i would say is exaggeration. This is because they exaggerate how long the toys could actually stay in the air.

5 examples of animation

http://youtu.be/2YHzhevY1Jk

This clip shows plenty of secondary action sequences and anticipation. When Rafiki cracks open the fruit you watch the juice spill out right after.

http://youtu.be/kFLtNEflXrM
This clip drew viewers in by emphasizing the scenes before the fight encounter. it showed straight ahead action while both fighters prepared for battle.