Nightingale Bird Song
A Representation Of A Bird
A Representation Of A Bird
What better representation of a bird than its song? I screen captured the music visualization of a nightingale song at regular time intervals. The resultant shapes of the music visualization are then traced and lasercut onto clear acrylic. Each shape represents a single moment in the nightingale song. All the pieces are arranged together in their time sequence. The final assembled form is a physical translation of what is an aural experience of a nightingale. The moment of a nightingale in full song frozen in a crystalline form.
Bird song sound sample: Nightingale song 2.wav
Source: The Free Sound Project http://www.freesound.org/
Link: http://www.freesound.org/people/reinsamba/sounds/14909/
Credit: User "Reinsamba", Germany
Song Length: 2 min 32 sec
Source: The Free Sound Project http://www.freesound.org/
Link: http://www.freesound.org/people/reinsamba/sounds/14909/
Credit: User "Reinsamba", Germany
Song Length: 2 min 32 sec
Vector tracing of music visualization shapes of the nightingale song
Shapes of the music visualization are lasercut onto clear acrylic
Assembly of the acrylic sound shapes in the correct order. Early lighting test with a scanner.
Early exploration of light positions
