Acoustical Portrait of The Bass Museum for the exhibition SOUND (2008)

This video (a piece edited from the original hour-and-a-half-long session) was created by Gustavo Matamoros. It is both. a composition and a document of the process used to capture the sound signature of a particular architecture. Though interesting in itself as an artistic experience, the information generated by this process is also crucial to the development of strategies for the creation of site-specific acousmatic installations and for designing sound art exhibitions. The data collected in this video was used by Matamoros to curate and fine tune the various works included in his exhibition, SOUND curated for the Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach.
For example, for his piece titled Bass Soundfield, Russell Frehling worked with ambient waveforms, extracting only the very highest partials available in the noise print contained within the audible spectrum, in effect, dissociating this sound material from its familiar context and experiential cues. What remained were remarkably ethereal bits that interacted with the room in captivating yet confounding ways.

[@polutropos]

love this. very special in so many ways.

[@mariothepookster]

Pretty cool ... sound art is something I've always appreciated and enjoyed. My first experience with creating interesting sounds was us of a cheap 50 portable tape recorder and playing the inside of a baby grand piano. I was 16 years old. Wish I still had those tapes! ... nice work!

[@jfurman47]

I can almost see the chaldni figures of the space.The most sound occurs at antinodes, the least at nodes. The phase changes rapidly in space, inversely as the wavelength. As an example, for velocity of sound very roughly 1100 ft/sec, one foot wavelength is 1100hz. Within that one foot distance, the relative phase changes 360 degrees. The microphone finds the antinodes with proper phase shift to support oscillation. The room owns its own modes, so not every resonant frequency is possible....

[@jfurman47]

The parallel wall cavity is not the only path sound travels : consider any glancing reflection that has the lucky path length. I bet these walls are parallel and perpendicular-- great for loops due to oblique reflections, for example consider diagonally opposite corners. Oscillation occurs when the amplitude and phase satisfy the Barkhausen criterion( phase~ n*2pi and amplitude ~1 in the loop.) The solution of such a boundry value problem makes my head spin.

[@dbhhcho]

beautiful....... Alvin......

[@industrialborn]

although the video is simply illustrating the room, the man and the instruments i find it relaxing apart from the squeaks now and then...very interesting

[@dieg112]

its abstract art through sound. this guy is actually my listening and analysis teacher. he's insane haha but very profound.

[@AllysonsVision]

Sounds cool. Sure did shut my dog's constant whining up. lol

[@dovalenano2]

silent hill soundtrack? : ) nice