Posted by sabine7
Art | 16 Jul 08 | Comments (2) | Stumble
Binaural is a sound-based installation by Shajay Bhooshan and Daniel Widrig at the 5 Days Off Festival in Amsterdam. The installation is a manifestation of a song by Frans de Waard. The aural information has been translated into a physical piece of worked that can be seen and touched. The frequency spectrum from the audio is “smoothed out” by storing the information as colour. This data is then further digitized to generate geometry before being created as a 3D object. The goal of the project was to show what can be done with digitized, sensorial information.
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For an acoustician that is completely awesome, it's how we see things when we are working
Projects of this nature seem to be increasing in popularity. In this case, a few characteristics of a two-channel audio recording are arbitrarily assigned to a three dimensional object. While it may be aesthetically pleasing, without its appended essay this sculpture has no more to do with sound than it has to do with baseball.