Jan,
I'm also interested in recording the sound during the process of
making a drawing and at the moment I am sharing a project with someone
who is actually skilled in numerical computing. We've started
recording sound with a microphone attached to my wrist while drawing
my other hand with charcoal on a heavy textured paper. We also made a
video of the process. At the moment we are building an algorithm in
Mathlab from the sound collected. This algorithm is supposed to
operate upon the video pixels, which is to say the initial drawing.
Have a look in the work of Helena Almeida. She is an artist who
recorded her drawings through sound in the late seventies. View has
well Monika Weiss who works with video, performance, drawing:
http://www.atypon-link.com/INT/doi/abs/10.1386/tear.4.2.79_1?cookieSet=1&journalCode=tear.
In rhizome you might find some interesting related issues:
http://rhizome.org/discuss/view/19247
Best regards,
Helena Elias
Citando Jan Claire Stevens <[log in to unmask]>:
> Louisa,
>
> Yes, that makes sense. To me, it is as if you were drawing sound
> with light. This connects up with my thoughts as I have been
> wondering about ways in which it could be possible to hear something
> visual and see something auditory. Apart from teaching drawing I
> also teach English (in the same art school here in France) and what
> you said about shadows also connects up with something I have
> recently started doing in the English sessions - on the theme of
> shadows. We are working with our voices and are structuring "voice
> pieces" like a sort of fugue, to use a musical analogy, and so in a
> sense are creating voice shadows/doubles. Since starting this off,
> I have discovered Bob Cobbing's work (although I don't know how to
> get hold of recordings of his work - maybe someone can suggest how?
> and anybody else who worked/works along those lines?)
>
> Recording the sounds made during the process of making a drawing
> (the pencil moving on a piece of paper, for example) and then
> converting those initial sounds into marks/lines/tones thus creating
> a second drawing is one of the things which interests me but I
> would have to team up with someone who is at ease with computers!
> Although I share some of your interests, unlike you, I am very
> attached to mark making and its physicality and visceral qualities,
> whilst at the same time realising that thinking and practice are
> undeniably interconnected and inseparable.
>
> By the way, I am still interested in artists/literature on the
> subject of drawing and sound!
> Thanks, Jan.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Louisa Martin
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 12:25 PM
> Subject: Re: drawing and sound
>
>
> Jan,
> I have been a drawer since I was very young. In recent years I
> have worked only with sound, and studied Sound Arts at Degree level
> (2006). I have performed live sound improvisations using a laptop,
> either solo or within a group. Since graduating I have brought
> visual elements back into my work.
> For example;
> I performed a live piece 'Improv 1/Drawing Performance' - i used
> small solar panels (converted into mics, so when they sensed light
> they produced sound, through an amp). With the lights turned off,
> the audience were instructed to use torches and lamps placed around
> them to shine light onto the solar panels which I wore, and which
> produced sound as a result. I consider this piece a 'drawing' of
> the audience-performance construction. It also had a secondary
> effect of producing multiple moving shadows around the space.
> I am currently exploring the idea that drawing is a mental
> learning process by which knowledge is gained, a knowledge that is
> deeper then bookish or recieved knowledge and is derived from
> concentrating one's awareness/conciousness onto an
> object/subject/idea/person until one reaches a state of 'knowing'...
> removing the 'mark-making' from the drawing process in order to pay
> attention to the mental process involved.
> I hope this makes sense!
>
> May I ask what interests you in sound? I think there can be a lot
> of similarities between drawing and sound...
>
> Thanks,
> Louisa
>
>
>
>
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> Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 11:47:38 +0100
> From: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: drawing and sound
> To: [log in to unmask]
>
>
> Louisa,
>
> I work with drawing but not yet with sound. A lot of my work is
> about appropriating what I call systems of representation such as
> medical imagery, botanical illustration, technical drawing, drawings
> of dress patterns etc. and then using those systems to create my
> own fictions. I would like to know more about how you are working
> with drawing and sound.
> Jan.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Louisa Martin
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 11:19 AM
> Subject: Re: drawing and sound
>
>
> have a look at http://www.benedictdrew.com/
> he does drawing and sound, mainly sound, and recently a sound
> performance with wire on paper at Beaconsfield
>
> http://www.beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/selfcancellation/selfcancellation.html along with some other sound performances with visual
> elements...
>
> I also do both, but don't have any work online. I am
> exploring ways in which drawing and sound might be used together
>
> Do you work with both?
>
> Louisa
>
>
>
>
>
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> Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 11:00:22 +0100
> From: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: drawing and sound
> To: [log in to unmask]
>
>
>
> Hello everyone,
>
> I am interested in finding out more about drawing and sound
> (historical context etc.) and artists who are working/worked with
> drawing and sound in whatever way. Thanks. Jan.
>
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