#resolved work

This black and white print emphasis the light and dark the duality of the cosmos and of love the interlaced circle of yin and yang and the nature of corporeal existence.

MANDORLA MULTIVERSELarge A0 print , photography/painting abstraction I decided to slighty alter the artwork I used for the program of Murmurations so the image would be AO and it would have more of a sense of overlaid space like the virtual space in sound leading into the idea of a multiverse , multiple universes that exist out of the choices we make . The work also has spaces of black to represent the unmanifest unknown aspects of existence .

And finally, this deceptive and manipulative substance continually evolves at an accelerating spatiotemporal space, until shrieking with an endless array of sonic utterances before eventually erupting into silence. 

Here i scaled back the same idea from the program of the trial presentation to just the Venus surface abstracted into green and pink the magically associated colors of Venus  , The vector drawing of the Rose of Venus orbital path and a sample of the Vector Data I used to create the spatialization  from the time period of the trial presentation to emphasize that what we are hearing is happening now. This print while being far more ambiguous that other presentations , with no text, hints at both the romantic and scientific fundaments of the Rose of Venus sound composition.

This large format print shows the Venus orbital path Some information from the data set and a small amount of text explaining some of the poetical metaphors Because currently in the time of our final presentation Venus is in its retrograde period which can be heard as the sound bending in the middle of the Rose of Venus Sound Work and be seen as the petal of the Rose in the Orbit drawings. I wanted this representation to lean more to the scientific presentation but with a hint at the romanticism of the previous works. This could act as an album cover or poster introducing the work

Here is the Binaural recording  and video of my third resolved sound work Mandorla. This is a twelve channel sound diffusion performed at RMIT in the Black Box Theatre as part of the Murmurations Spatial Sound Festival ,organized by the Starling Spatial Sound Collective I am a part  off. Unfortunately, the metro tunnel construction works mean that there is a large drilling sound that somewhat ruins the ambience of my diffusion in the quiet sections but that’s the danger of live performance. Mandorla plays on the space between light and dark, chaos and order and circular movements between two orbiting bodies, as a metaphor for cosmic love . It also plays with withheld resolution, and build using ring modulation that circle back on them selves dissonance and harmony as a way of representing the light, dark and nervous tension of the experience of love . I was inspired by Jazz and Dream pop , Shoegaze. I wanted my project to touch on popular music styles as a way to create multichannel composition as its not explored that often and its sparse yet dense layers suit the organic nature of diffusion. Through my research, thinking about music as a pre-syntax language, I wanted to explore the possibilities of musical languages symbolic function so decided to make this third work in response to the outcomes of my research. It also gave me a chance to use guitar and instrumentation in new ways.

Here I have solarized and added colour filters and posterized the image to create a pop art like cartoon world. I chose red because I was thinking about the book of Revelation were the seas are poisoned and the waterways are blood and also the background of the city as a kind of new Jerusalem. One of the layers of metaphor I was working within the composition was the idea of Armageddon from humans overuse and wanton destruction of the environment . The pop culture element here is representative of the commercialization that has contributed the contamination and destruction of the environment . Water also being the life blood of the planet. This contamination also exists in the deep recesses of the psyche which is reflected in the world we see. Humans are full of anger and hate , its everywhere and this I see in the colour red. The abstraction  on another level could represent the pitch shifting,  time stretching of sound and other processing through delays and modulation I have used in the composition to change the colour of the sound.  These photographs while forming a part of my envisioning of the work I chose not to present with the performances because I didn't want to taint the inner imagination of the experience of sound with visual information  but I am considering in 2nd Semester a way to integrate them into the greater body of the work.