Ethan's Experiments

Experiment Link:  https://soundcloud.com/user-855245494/soundscape-experiment?si=f1216a12cb444d60becf68f61968ac3a     "In general we feel more secure when things are  visible , when we can 'see for ourselves'." (McLuhan, 117)     The above quote emphasizes what I wanted to do when creating this project. I wanted to try to make something musical (because I haven't done that before) but I mostly wanted to create a piece of sound that would conjure some sort of imagery in listeners heads. I think the  interplay between visual and auditory is really interesting, especially when they overlap. So I wanted this sound to indicate something visual even though it isn't.      I made this project out of instruments that Garageband  already had, using the virtual midi keyboard on my computer. It was really fun to play and try to put together a little 'song'. I really enjoyed adding effects using the peddle board options and messing around w...

  My Flickr Blume No. 2 "Something is happening here and you don't know what it is, do you, Mister Jones?" (Bob Dylan, 1965)          I just took this quote on a very literal level instead of its total meaning. I like the idea of something that is happening that is under everyones radar, so that's what I tried to do with the abstraction in the photos. I like making people see things in a way that they can't with their naked eye.      I took all these photos on a walk in the evening this past weekend. I focused mostly on making more abstract pictures because that is what I generally like to do in my art. To support that I manipulated them quite a bit in photoshop. I had a lot of fun in messing in the 'Curves' menu, I found that was a really good way to mess with them (especially in black and white). Overall I think that most of my photos are  successful, about 16 of them I'm happy with. There were some I included ...