Triptych

Combined: https://vimeo.com/109792219

Left: http://youtu.be/7l1c2q0JQ9Y

Middle: https://vimeo.com/109794704

Right: https://vimeo.com/109792220

Artist Statement:

I wanted to focus on the concept of time and how things can happen very quickly, and get very jumbled and messed up rather quickly.With this, I decided to use the clocks as an inspiration for time, and I had the readers read the Aesop Fable of the Laborer and the Nightingale, which has the moral of not to sorrow or worry about things that are gone forever. Furthermore, I made the audio cut out at places that were uncomfortable, as time itself is very uncomfortable. Also, from the very short transition from color to black and white suggests at how fast things can change. I chose to not have the readers fully in view, because I didn't want them to be distracting from the clocks behind them. I also added the sounds to make it seem more eerie and creepy almost. I also wanted to keep it short for the reason of things that change quickly.

Artists Instrument:

Most of the artistic choice I chose are developed from the musician in me. I wanted to make something tonal with rubber bands due to the love I have for the sound rubber bands make. I chose to use a hollow wooden box that could act as a resonance chamber that could make the tones ring longer. As for the outside of the box, there really is no artistic choice for any of it. I wanted to focus on the rubber bands.

Played 2-D Score:

The score I played looked much like a constellation, with many dots and connecting lines. I looked at the nature of my instrument, and decided to use the bottom of the instrument as a drum and the tones of the rubber bands for the lines. I looked at the descending lines and tried to descend in the tones of the instrument. I tried to leave a lot of space for the empty parts in the paper as well. However, I got nervous, and lost my place through the middle, but I still tried to maintain the main ideas.

[Photo Pending of 2-D Score Made]
Made 2-D Score:

 I made the score 16x24" in size because I wanted it to seem kind of heavy. I also included dots because I wanted them to be hits. I also made them pretty equally spread apart to signify that they should be hit at a constant time. And the larger the dot, the heavier the hit. Eventually down the score there was a huge cluster of color and black, with this I wanted it to be more up to perception, but I obviously wanted the person playing it to go crazy on their instrument. At the bottom it finally lead to a wave effect. With this, I wanted the player to play very calmly and eventually fade out.