For the allied design course monsoon 2022-23 i worked with Kausik Mukhopadyay to evaluate the meaning of forms and their relation to their objectives. we focused of using sound as a medium to navigate through this topic. I collected sounds from my city and then formed them together to create a soundscape in which my machine could thrive
I then made representations of my sound using illustrations. To do this I chose code to be my helping hand as it helped me in accurately representing the sound in terms of its waveform, aptitude, pitch, loudness and sharpness.
once I had a visual sense of what my sound looked like, I coded programs on p5.js to give the following outputs. Which in turn helped me in creating illustrations of the sound in its truest sense.
a representation of the individual soundforms and the way they come together.
Once I moved onto making the actual machine, I realized that a mechanical self performing device is not something that interested me. Instead I began to look at how human interaction could cause the Sound. I imagined a field of wheat that I was walking through and if that field felt similar and yet different. The result of this though experiment and a few variations here and there is Shor Machine v3.
it consists of four units that all work as shor machines themselves. thin strips of old, rusted steel are welded to strips of iron which are in turn welded onto thin slightly curved sheets that help it rock back and forth. they vary from 2.5 ft to 5ft. as you brush past them when you enter the blue studio on the third floor of sea you would be greeted by the hymns of the Shor Machine.