This is part of my final year project in Lasalle.
Introduction to the project
My project is call Sonicisual, which consist of the audio visualizations of our sonic environment. As Singapore is considered to be a fast paced society, How many times do we actually stop and listen to our surrounding sounds? Besides, we are more of a visual-based society rather than an auditory-based society, and thus we remember landmarks more than soundmarks. However, sound plays an important part to how we experience our surroundings. It creates a characteristic to the place itself. And the most important part is, it gives us the ability to imagine. My project is not about solving a problem, but to create an experience to Singaporeans, by compromising our sense of sight and hearing to experience our country in a fuller perspective and its complexities. And thus, instead of seeing a country, we hear our country as well.
These transparencies consist of the different sound levels in different places in Singapore. It is done by a program which i built using Processing, whereby it breaks down the audio files into every 5 minutes. So we can compare the sound levels in the different places every 5 minutes. Each audio files are recorded for 60 minutes, once in the morning and once at night. In this way, we will be able to breakdown the sounds in singapore just by putting the transparencies together.
