Sound Harmonization

Year: 2017

Medium: Sculpture

Award: 2017 London Battersea Park sculpture award

Exhibited at: Battersea Park Public space

Material:  Metal, wood

Size: W5,500 x H3,000 x D2,300mm

Concept movie :

(Jp)

https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/787859724

(En) https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/443287476

“This is a fine saying of Plato: That he who is discoursing about men should look also at earthly things as if he viewed them from some higher place; should look at them... a mixture of all things and an orderly combination of contraries”  By Marcus Aurelius


"Sound Harmonising" is a sculpture in London Battersea Park, capturing the harmony between man and nature through sound shapes. Recorded at Battersea Park, it visualizes the sounds of birds and planes digitally. This art piece transforms as the viewer's perspective shifts.

“Sound harmonisingʼ is a site-specific sculpture that my visual representation of a newly experienced sound, which harmonises people and nature within a given space. Since ancient times, humans have been fascinated by birds flying high in the sky,  so they created their own representation of birds, viz. airplanes.

The best place to analyze the contrast between birds and planes is Battersea Park. This oxymoronic location, amidst trees and gardens, but also under a flight path, makes this a perfect place for observing the contrast between nature and man-made creation. 

For the whole 12 hours of a day, I recorded the sounds of birds and aircraft which were audible in Battersea Park. Using this data, I created a graphical representation of the sounds and the various sound pitches.

Instead of presenting this data as a conventional graph on paper, however, I represented it as a circle with 12 bars, because of the never-ending succession between the progression of daylight and night.

This piece also represents a shift in perception. Please change the distance in perspective, and look at it horizontally or vertically. When you look down at the world from a higher viewpoint, what do you notice?

”プラトンの言葉のなんと美しいことか。人について何か語りたくなったら、鳥になったつもりで上空から一望するのがいちばんだ.. これらが溶け合って、対照をなして並んでいるのだ” ーマルクス・アウレリウスー


”Sound harmonising”はロンドンの公園に設置した彫刻です。人と自然の調和を音の形で表現。バタシー公園で鳥と飛行機の音を録音、デジタルで視覚化。視点を変えると新たな形が現れる作品。

"Sound harmonising"は、ロンドンのバタシー公園に設置されたサイトスペシフィックな彫刻作品であり、空間における人と自然の調和を探求し、新たな音の体験を視覚的に表現している。

古来より人類は空を舞う鳥に魅了され、その姿を模倣して飛行機を創造してきた。このプロジェクトは、鳥と飛行機という自然と人工の対比を中心テーマとしている。バタシー公園は、豊かな自然環境とヒースロー空港への航路が交差する独特な位置にあり、この対比を観察する理想的な舞台となっている。

作品制作にあたり、公園内で12時間にわたり鳥と飛行機の音を録音。このデータをデジタル処理によって視覚化し、昼夜の移り変わりを終わりのない円環として表現した。この手法により、時間の流れと音の変化が空間的に体験できる独自の作品が生まれた。

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