#soundform

العرض: احصل على خصم 40٪ على مكبر الصوت الذكي Belkin SoundForm Elite Hi-Fi

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Intro

I have always been fascinated by the sound of a human voice, by the feel and impression that it leaves on the hearer. There are voices that fill you with warmth and comfort, other voices that impose sobriety and composure. It is not only the tonality of a voice, but its vibration, the metamorphosis of sound waves as it turns into coded meaning. What happens instead when the coded meaning does not travel through the standard channel (mouth-ear), when it has to materialise through the grain of the image (mouth-eye)? This is a question that I have posed myself when watching this scene.

Sound forms

Most home movies shot until late 60s were silent. Recording sound was not an option, especially for the middle-class amateur. Still sound appears in most cases almost as unnecessary.  Of course that this is largely due to body language: we can interpret facial expressions, hand gestures, body positions or the type of movements. In this case we can visually perceive the message, as the voice acquires its own materiality/visual corporeity. The voice, as it travels through a visually determined channel, adapts to and therefore borrows from the specificities/affordability of its medium. As it does so, we can note how the voice acquires a specific grain, a structure that operates through elements such as shape, surface and colour, as they become the bearers of the message.

Exploration of sound forms

Thinking of sound in terms terms of shape, surface and colour comes obviously with field-specific limitations: we set boundaries to what and how we can ideate and manipulate sound as a visual element. These are given by the affordability of the visual realm.  What if we try to break these boundaries and make the pixel explode? In which terms are we able to visualise sound then?

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