Graphic Notation and Blurring the Boundary Reading

Blurring the Boundary Reading:

The reading talked a lot about how sound installations capture the attention of the ear and the eye by utilizing a space that the visitors can somehow interact with.  The image I chose was a representation of a vase falling. This action of something fragile falling captures people’s attention and then engages their ears when it shatters on the ground. Knocking something fragile over like a glass cup or vase by accident or on purpose is all reliant on the person who did it, So not only is a fragile object interactive but it captures the senses talked about in the reading.  This would also depend on how big the table is and how far it is from the floor or even if the floor is carpeted. The key thing about knocking a glass/vase over is that it doesn’t need to be set up by intricate drawn out layouts of a room, it doesn’t need electricity, and it doesn’t need planning. It is all reliant on one person who isn’t paying enough attention, it is accidental installation art.

Graphic Notation:

This link (http://www.ubu.com/sound/artsounds.html#) will lead you to Mineko Grimmer "Tower With Garden" which is the piece I used for my graphic notation. This Piece is 2:58 long with a weird structure that had some patterns but many repeating sounds. Together as a whole this piece is just a lot of objects being dropped on the ground, hit, or just background noise but when listened to closer at individual parts you can here what the objects might be that were dropped or hit. All the things I heard where: wooden sticks bouncing off the ground, a small object rolling, a bell being rung, a car driving by, splashs or drops of water and maybe a can dropping. The only thing emotive in this is how random and annoying the sounds are but that might have been on purpose and deliberately. My overall impression of this work is that I don’t really understand what its supposed to mean but it did have a structure of just dropping things so it did follow some sort of pattern. The Graphic notation for this piece is just lines styled towards sounds the objects make and a three straight line representing the floor in the entire recording. The lines themselves can describe how the objects moved/sounded throughout this piece.