By Anna Valmero
Inquirer.net
Manila’s sonic hatcheries crack out the incubators at Club Dredd at Eastwood City for the third Electrostatic Sound Conference held September 24. Manila sound art musicians along with a guest Australian artist played their compositions and shared their music to their followers and to new crowds. The event, spearheaded by New Media Arts Manila, was held to support the musician’s friend who was shot several weeks ago.
“Sound art is an abstraction on what we usually considered music with rhythm, melody and harmony elements. You take away those elements and you come up with sounds that you organize to form the art,” said Singapore-based guest artist Darren Moore. “It encompasses an area of music that may not be mainstream in genre, but with a definite following.” As a form of contemporary art, the media fuses different sounds produced by musical instruments, everyday materials and recorded sound produced by animals, TV or a typical conversation. As such, the content varies because music is relative and perceived differently by people. As such, the pattering of the rain can be a symphony or not, depending on the listener. “You can use any material to produce sound and use that raw sound in your composition or you can synthesize it, depending on the effect you want,” Moore said. “For me, I want to focus on the micro sounds so I use my laptop and some tuners for my piece.” Given the freedom to compose a sound art piece, artists can produce music from any material of their choice and couple that with images to add visualization to the piece. Tad Ermitano took this fusion of music and visualization a level higher. During his turn, he used the sound vibration produced by an amped speaker to provide the motion to a set of small metal balls and colored paint, thus producing a “non-Newtonian fluid” or fluids that do not follow Isaac Newton’s model of fluid dynamics. According to Ermitano, sound art is not limited to the organization of sounds to come up with music. For his piece, he added the live-act motion of his non-Newtonian fluid as to redefine the concoction of music and visualization in sound art.
“Sound art is an abstraction on what we usually considered music with rhythm, melody and harmony elements. You take away those elements and you come up with sounds that you organize to form the art,” said Singapore-based guest artist Darren Moore. “It encompasses an area of music that may not be mainstream in genre, but with a definite following.” As a form of contemporary art, the media fuses different sounds produced by musical instruments, everyday materials and recorded sound produced by animals, TV or a typical conversation. As such, the content varies because music is relative and perceived differently by people. As such, the pattering of the rain can be a symphony or not, depending on the listener. “You can use any material to produce sound and use that raw sound in your composition or you can synthesize it, depending on the effect you want,” Moore said. “For me, I want to focus on the micro sounds so I use my laptop and some tuners for my piece.” Given the freedom to compose a sound art piece, artists can produce music from any material of their choice and couple that with images to add visualization to the piece. Tad Ermitano took this fusion of music and visualization a level higher. During his turn, he used the sound vibration produced by an amped speaker to provide the motion to a set of small metal balls and colored paint, thus producing a “non-Newtonian fluid” or fluids that do not follow Isaac Newton’s model of fluid dynamics. According to Ermitano, sound art is not limited to the organization of sounds to come up with music. For his piece, he added the live-act motion of his non-Newtonian fluid as to redefine the concoction of music and visualization in sound art.
