Week 2
In the second week of Hypercinema, we worked on learning audition. The class was amusing because fire alarm tests were being conducted, and we incorporated that material and sound into the demos. We also presented our first project idea for Hypercinema.
For our hypercinema project, we decided to look into what spirituality might mean. We discussed the interconnectedness of spirituality to our environment, as well as through religion, and decided to conduct interviews with people.
We decided to explore spirituality, dividing it into three ways:
prayer calls
people's opinions and thoughts on it, as well as looking at it from a historical perspective
nature and subtle sounds.
Our group decided to present this in the form of a sound installation. We were considering creating this installation in the form of a checkerboard, where each color represents a different genre, and the checkers would feature pictures/symbols related to the genre. So each square could have its own dedicated channel, creating localized sound sources that follow people's movements. This can allow people to compose their movement patterns, just as a person may feel about what spirituality means to them. And when multiple people are walking along them, they can create complex spiritual soundscapes together.
We got suggestions in class to make it a web experience. We also understood the assignment more clearly, as initially, I thought it was supposed to be a physical presentation. Yet, it was actually intended to be a proposal to present to a museum, so the web experience made more sense.
