We, Carol Chiu, Erica Park, and Gabe Katz, aim to capture and reproduce natural student voices representing our school.
Cloud 9 Nirvana
- We intend to create a 9-stage experience leading to "Cloud 9," the state of nirvana, tranquil bliss, or ecstasy. We draw upon the idea that, in a classic path toward nirvana, the subject feels increasingly lightweight and unencumbered, shedding perceived physical and mental burdens. Our intention is to recreate this experience by programming sound depending on the amount of users at once in this defined space. For example, if there is 1 person averages every 5 minutes in an hour time frame, then audio content is solo moments (buddhist chant, ecstasy, classical music, intimate moment.) If there is more than 2 more averaging every 5 minutes in an hour time frame, then audio content are group moments (cheering, laughing, playing, toasting, socializing, jazz music) "Cloud 9" is a spatial and auditory representation of nirvana. by Katherine Lee, Fiorella Gu, Gabriel Medina, & Carol Chiu
Other Works I Dig
Motivations
December 20, 2008
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December 16, 2008
Cloud 9 Money Model by Fiorella Gu - Photoshop Artist
Bamboo is a viable replacement for wood. It can be harvest in 3-5 years versus 10-20 for most softwoods. It can out yield pine 6 to 1 in biomass production. Based on Bamboo’s acoustic properties such as the speed of sound, the characteristic impedance, the sound radiation coefficient, and the loss coefficient against one another, bamboo and specific wood species are ideally suited for the manufacture of xylophone bars and chimes, flutes and organs, violins and zithers, violin bows, and even strings.
December 15, 2008
Merge Sound Installation & New School Radio Live Broadcast
I am proposing to merge 2 collaborations into solving a New School community problem.
The problem with the New School is having a radio station that is under developed because of lack of applied technology. The New School radio is a website that lacks humanity, does not broadcast live, inconveineint to listen to. The Communication Design Technology department of Parsons can offer vast improvements to fix these problems. As a grad student in this department, I can visualize potential for enhancing the New School experience by a sound installation. This installation will be inside the Sheila Johnson center on 18 feet long ramp that connects two buildings. The initial design intention is to recreate a transition towards nirvana. This experience of nirvana is subjective by the audience.
The majority audience, students who take courses at the New School, will pass through this ramp. The next group of audience is faculty, staff, administration, security, custodian, guest speakers, designers, and prospective students. This audio space on this particular ramp can be used to make these people feel good through sound. The particular sounds that can benefit these people can be a 15 second PSA, up beat tunes, classical music, jazz music, design contest announcement, and New School Radio.
A typical user scenario is a CDT student walking briskly to her next design class. As she enters the transition ramp, an announcement is made in the background, "enter a $25,000 brand design contest, log on to tirebrandcontest.com for more information." Her response is OMG, I have to check this out when I get up to class. She arrives on the 10th floor for class and logs onto the website because she needs to pay her next semester tuition at Parsons.
Another typical user scenario are two students just standing there and socializing. The background jazz music is enticing them to linger and socialize for 5 minutes before they both depart for class. Having this presence of students feeling comfortable to socialize is important. This 5 minutes of socializing with jazz music in the background can make a huge difference in the experience on this ramp.
The presence of audio on this ramp can benefit the audience experiences through pleasant announcements, jazz music from our Jazz Department, classical music from Mannes, and music from Communication Design Technology.
During user testing and collecting responses to user scenarios, the presence of playful sound can bring out laughter.
December 13, 2008
December 06, 2008
New School Radio Sound Branding Experience
The benefit for WNSR Radio station of having sound branding design are the following: 1.) create memories for the audience, 2.) influence consumers to take a specific action, and 3.)cleverly inform listeners as to whom they are hearing.
This page is all about the process of sound branding design. This is a collaboration amongst my peers at the New School. The process begins with sketching audio out loud to the people I'm collaborating with. If I am able to communicate this verbal audio sketch, then the next step is to collect these sounds. Gabe Katz and I collected sounds from Union Square with a portable digital X-Y Stereo Mics recorder. We caught the sound of a skateboarder passing by which is what we ended up in these sound IDs. The problem we ran into was the wind blowing directly into the microphones which caused unwanted rumbles. Then we mixed down in headphones on Pro Tools at 55 West 13th. Here's the best of today:
The Future Is Now ..... New School Radio
A few days later, we (Gabe Katz and I) listened to these sound IDs and think the kick drum needs to be stronger. We also think there needs to be an added boom bass. Basically the two clips above were quickly mixed and the low ends were lacking. A well crafted sound ID probably has a low, mid and high range of frequencies that is balanced. This creates interests for listeners.
Here's another sound ID that is aggressive with syncopation:
Download Newschoolradio_sound_id_music
Here's
sound ID collage of almost everyone we (Erica Park, Gabe Katz, and I)
captured in studio 807 and 806. It shows the variety of personalities
as a group. The tag line is played around with because we believed it
should natural and fluid. It should not sound one is reading the tag
line, but expressing a feeling.
Download Newschoolradio_sound_id_collage1
Future ideas?
I
was thinking about scratching in the voice samples. Also thinking I
should link up with my peers in class and grab - record more vocals. I
think mixing all this down should have more time dedicated towards it.
I think people from the jazz department should give me music to mix
this in.
Here's a quote from Joey Slick, radio personality on Inter FM 76.1 Tokyo Japan.
"Audio advertising imprints phonic memories. Repetition of phonic imprints catches consumers and prompts memory to the advertisement."
jointone.com/JOR/2016.11-29-2008.mp3
December 05, 2008
November 25, 2008
The Courtyard @ the Eugene Lang Building
Courtyard at the Eugene Lang Building:The courtyard: Here's where you can sit outside and do outside business like talk, contemplate, write your next novel, sketch your next idea, and so forth.
