Cartography

Digital Acoustic Cartography has attempted to map noise patterns of everyday objects and events - e.g. the closing of a car door. Essentially, the acoustic pattern resulting from an event is turned into a relief model of sound; this is combined with a photographic overlay of the noise maker. The result is a three-dimensional map of the object and its sound.

The process is still experimental and, if nothing else, produces interesting shapes.

Noise by numbers at 1250 Hz

Frequency for an automobile gear.

Why print?

I choose print media to show sound through visuals. Like creating sound, motion graphics uses all the same methods. It can also be a 3D domain. I do not wish to work with something that is almost the same to actually creating sound.

Print however, needs more attention as all the factors that go into creating sound rest in your own hands.