Sound

In todays session my lecturer spoke about phenomenonology and sound, and how sound is an underrated medium. The instructions for this session and task were to grab ink and paper and some sort of utensil and to make marks in response to the sounds my lecturer was going to play (a mixture of music and sound pieces created by my lecturer). There was a big emphasis on really listening to and feeling the sounds whilst mark making. It was an interesting experience to me, initially I found that I made associations with the sounds I was hearing and I felt I should be responding. I felt like when gentle piano music was playing I had to respond with dainty and gentle mark making and vice versa. I noticed this and tried to also repel that notion and see what would happen if I just felt the sound and put brush to paper and tried to make marks in terms of a response that I felt made opposed to the associations my brain was making. These images are a result of this task. I especially like the piece on the left, I remember that the noise that was playing whilst I was mark making on this piece was shockingly loud and the speaker wasn't a super high quality so the sound wasn't necessarily pleasant. and it created such a visceral and immediate response from me I almost didn't have to think about the marks I was making, I just did. And whilst I don't know how I feel like the urgency of the brushstrokes does successfully convey how I felt when I made them as well as the nature of the sound piece that was playing to an extent.