Beyond the Veil: Revealing the Hidden Qualities of Objects and Spaces through Electroacoustic Audiovisual Experiences
| dc.contributor.author | Worthy, Stewart Andrew | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-07-15T16:21:38Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-07-15T16:21:38Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2023-09 | |
| dc.description.abstract | The twentieth century gave rise to rapid developments in science, technology, and the arts. In visual art, a significant step came from the Surrealist exhibitions that started in 1939, which made the transformation of the gallery space as important as the individual works being shown. These exhibitions, along with earlier work produced by Kurt Schwitters, helped lay the foundations of installation art. At around the same time in France, Pierre Schaffer began experimenting with disc and magnetic tape to formulate his theory of musique concrète, helping to create the wider genre of electroacoustic music. This thesis explores how sound installations that combine practice from both visual art and electroacoustic music can reveal hidden qualities in static objects whilst overtly presenting sounds derived from the objects themselves. In doing so, source recognition is more easily achieved which in turn can help those experiencing the works engage with more abstract content. Six original sound installations are presented that help investigate these concerns. Together with the creation of the works is a table of audiovisual transformations that reinforce the link between sound and object by considering what a particular audio process would look like translated into visual form. The creation of the table emerged intuitively at first as the works were created. This situation established an exchange of ideas linked to practice and research. Projection mapping helped provide dynamic content, which animates the static objects and allows both parametric and experiential factors to create audiovisual links in the transformations. The findings offer a detailed insight into how electroacoustic practice can inform audiovisual composition choices. Whilst these all focus on sound installations, there is significant scope for others to adopt and adapt both the broader practice-based methodology and the table of audiovisual transformations for wider audiovisual use. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2086/24010 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.publisher | De Montfort University | |
| dc.publisher.department | Faculty of Computing, Engineering and Media | |
| dc.title | Beyond the Veil: Revealing the Hidden Qualities of Objects and Spaces through Electroacoustic Audiovisual Experiences | |
| dc.type | Thesis or dissertation | |
| dc.type.qualificationlevel | Doctoral | |
| dc.type.qualificationname | PhD |