Imagine a train sound coming towards you. The sound is getting louder and closer to you. You are nerves and scared, the sound is very close, and then you hear the train passing by. As train getting farther, the sound of it getting lower. You feel relieved and calm. How can you transfer it into a visual and not only emotional event?
In my project I transferred my feelings and associations towards this sound into the rhythm I was feeling when I listened to the sound. In the video with the fingers I divided the sound in to two parameters. The first one is the volume, which can be understood from the speed of the moving fingers. The second one is the distance between the listener and the sound source. As the distance minimized, the fingers mass capture more space of the frame.
From this representation I decided to divide the sound into 5 different intervals, according to the feelings that the sound evoked: calmness at the beginning, interruption when the horn is heard, escalation when the train is near, frightful when it passes by and eventually the relieve you feel when the trains is faraway. Each stage represented by even frames and only the mass is changing in the frame. The relationship between the frame and the fingers size (=mass) demonstrate the sound interpretation.
On the given site-”The Diamond Bridge”, I tried to find the same characteristics as I found in the video. I discovered that there is a connection between the tunnel, people motion in it and the arriving of the train. They all connected, when there is no train in the station, there is a lack of movement in the tunnel. When the train is in the station, approaching or just departing, the movement of people in the tunnel gets higher. I documented the movement of people in the tunnel before, after and during the train presence in the station.
To compeer my video conclusions with the site mapping, I’m no longer refers to the train sound as the trigger, but to the train presence or absence in the station as the trigger of movement in the tunnel. The tunnel is the frame now, and the people’s motion in the tunnel is the mass. This conclusions let me think about the natural phenomenon of the “Tide and Flow”, meaning: when the tunnel is empty and there is no motion in it, this stage is equals to the “Tide”, when there is a lot of movement in the tunnel, the stage is equals to the “Flow”. To demonstrate my conclusions and implicate them on the side I thought about a transparent sheet, that expanses and compresses according to people movements in the tunnel. The sheet is activated by people’s distance to it: when there is no movement the sheet is compressed on the floor of the tunnel, when a person is coming towards the tunnel, the sheet expenses and by that allows to get through the tunnel.
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