Sound Harmonization
Year: 2017
Medium: Sculpture
Award: 2017 London Battersea Park sculpture award
Exhibited at: Battersea Park Public space
Material: Metal, wood
Size: W5,500 x H3,000 x D2,300mm
Concept movie :
(Jp)
https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/787859724
(En) https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/443287476
“This is a fine saying of Plato: That he who is discoursing about men should look also at earthly things as if he viewed them from some higher place; should look at them... a mixture of all things and an orderly combination of contraries” By Marcus Aurelius
"Sound Harmonising" is a sculpture in London Battersea Park, capturing the harmony between man and nature through sound shapes. Recorded at Battersea Park, it visualizes the sounds of birds and planes digitally. This art piece transforms as the viewer's perspective shifts.
“Sound harmonisingʼ is a site-specific sculpture that my visual representation of a newly experienced sound, which harmonises people and nature within a given space. Since ancient times, humans have been fascinated by birds flying high in the sky, so they created their own representation of birds, viz. airplanes.
The best place to analyze the contrast between birds and planes is Battersea Park. This oxymoronic location, amidst trees and gardens, but also under a flight path, makes this a perfect place for observing the contrast between nature and man-made creation.
For the whole 12 hours of a day, I recorded the sounds of birds and aircraft which were audible in Battersea Park. Using this data, I created a graphical representation of the sounds and the various sound pitches.
Instead of presenting this data as a conventional graph on paper, however, I represented it as a circle with 12 bars, because of the never-ending succession between the progression of daylight and night.
This piece also represents a shift in perception. Please change the distance in perspective, and look at it horizontally or vertically. When you look down at the world from a higher viewpoint, what do you notice?
”プラトンの言葉のなんと美しいことか。人について何か語りたくなったら、鳥になったつもりで上空から一望するのがいちばんだ.. これらが溶け合って、対照をなして並んでいるのだ” ーマルクス・アウレリウスー
”Sound harmonising”はロンドンの公園に設置した彫刻です。人と自然の調和を音の形で表現。バタシー公園で鳥と飛行機の音を録音、デジタルで視覚化。視点を変えると新たな形が現れる作品。
”Sound harmonising”は、空間の中で人と自然を調和させ、新しい音の体験を視覚的に表現し、ロンドンの公園に建てられたサイトスペシフィックな彫刻だ。古代から人間は、空を高く飛ぶ鳥に魅了されて、自分たちで鳥を模したもの、飛行機を作った。
鳥と飛行機のコントラストを分析するのに最適な場所はバタシー公園だった。木々や庭園に囲まれているだけでなく、ヒースロー空港へ向かう飛行機の航路の真下にあり、自然と人工の創造物との対比を観察するには最適な場所である。
私はバタシー公園内で聞こえる鳥と飛行機の音を12時間録音した。デジタルを使いデータをヴィジュアライズし昼と夜の進行、終わりのない連続の円環として表した。
この作品は視点の転換も表している。遠近の距離を変え、水平・垂直に眺めたら、別の形が現れる。高い視点から世界を見下ろしたときに、あなたは何に気付くだろうか
