Project Proposal for Master Program #1

I propose to use sound to define the space.When people come to the museum/gallery/live show,they always want to be surprised or shocked or wait to see/hear something.The average time of staring at an artwork will no more than 10 seconds.The experience vary from people to people with different background,gender,religion,educational levels etc.

I want to seek for a common experience that no matter who you are you can feel/experience it in your body.

When we in the swimming pool,at first,we feel nothing;when we go deeper,we feel the pressure,the fear,different sound from the surface.I want to re-create this experience using different sound frequencies in one(pure color)room/swimming pool(if it possible).

When people come into the room,they probably see/hear nothing.As they go deeper,they can feel/experience the pressure from various specific frequencies of sound.They may be high or feel fear or get the familiar experience when they enter the swimming pool.

The stereos will be hidden in the room,so the audience can see nothing,and merely hear the sound.They will be totally immerse in the room of sound,frequencies,to feel the beauty of vibration of air.

References from "Sound Art"

Tony Smith:

There is no way to frame it,you just have to experience it.

Nature has its own language,which affects us with its inexorable power.This language cannot be imitated.

Robert Smithson:

Dealing with matter in terms of a back to nature movement.For me the world is a museum.Photography makes nature obsolete.My thinking in terms of the site and the nonsite makes me feel there's no need to refer to nature anymore.I'm totally concerned with making art and this is mainly an act of viewing,a mental activity that zeros in on discrete sites.

John Cage:

Silence is all of the sound we don't intend.

Sound art comes from the appreciation of the total environment of sounds,both wanted and unwanted.

Brain Eno:

Make a piece which completely sinks into that environment somewhere.

Erik Satie:

A music which is like furniture,which will be part of the noises of the environment,that will take them into consideration.

Sound art-----------time duration/repetition

Scale------size----------musical parameter

Sound is an external phenomenon as well as a universal and elemental force,like earth,light,water or air.

Sound is experience,so there's no point in trying to make it into an object as a collector's piece.So I'm trying to create situations where people come to it as experience and value that.

Definition of Sound(prototype)

Vibration of air

Sound is an experience

Sound and inter-relationship of human body

Human body has the frequencies(from different organs)

Why people get excited to certain genera of music?

The art-work with/without description

to be continued...