New Technology

Last year we were given a project that I never got around to putting up on here.

I really enjoyed this project as I had the opportunity to really incorporate my love for music.

The brief was to find a new way of using a piece of technology and experimenting with materials and technology. 

I started out quite lost until I bought a lovely old gold projector from Battersea car boot fair.

This got me started thinking about light and shadows.

I then started using my scanner as a way to control light.

I shone the light from the projector into the scanner then begun to move the lid of the scanner up and down in time to music whilst the scanner was scanning.

It took a lot of experimentation to get the effect right; using different objects and techniques.

The outcomes I made were pieces of visual music - of about the first 20 seconds of a song (the time it takes for the scanner to scan)

Here are some of the results:

I think it's important with these images to click on them to make them bigger

This is Rolling Stones' Under My Thumb

And this is Mozart's Eine Kleine Nachtmusik