Touch + Art: Aaron Sherwood

http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2012/12/firewall-an-interactive-fabric-surface-by-aaron-sherwood/

Aaron Sherwood has created an interactive fabric surface through "different ‘modes’ of light projected onto a taut membrane of spandex which then reacts kinetically in response to touch".  The light creates both movements and sounds reacting to the kinetic touch in a very interesting and creative manner. 

Sound Artist: Jacob Kirkegaard "4 rooms"

http://www.touchmusic.org.uk/catalogue/jacob_kirkegaard_4_rooms_1.html

Jacob Kirkegaard is the artist behind "4 rooms", which is a compilation of four recordings of four separate empty rooms: a church, gymnasium, swimming pool, and an auditorium; these recordings deal with a "sonic experience of time" and most importantly, sound.

Touching soft .

As finding examples of installation by artists who work with sound on Youtube, I found this interesting sculpture that when viewers touch it gently, they will hear sounds from the sculpture.



 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3__Wgtoj0U

Things I came across

This is a link to a great academic journal called The Senses and Society that I found through the library database. It relates to the sensations, the intelligible sense, and art theories and philosophies about them.

And this is the calm.com website I mentioned for meditation/relaxation if anyone is interested. 

Freud + Dali

Freud's idea of reviling emotional disturbance by experimenting with free associations. to make connections with other's mentally to see how they react to certain words. i want to use sound and objects to do this not words.  Dali invented a technique that was inspired by Freud studies of the mind called Paranoiac- critical method. using objects to mentally make associations with other objects that are usually not linked. for example melting watches, a watch and Camembert cheese.

80 mesh - the shape of sound: music visualized with sand

   I found this art work that is much similar to what Christine Sun Kim did that making a divice for sound itself to creating shapes. Instead this time the artist used sand on top of the platform.
http://www.designboom.com/art/80-mesh-the-shape-of-sound-music-visualized-with-sand/

Research

I went through 3 books from the library and 3 journal articles online this week. I will list interesting information I came across:

- Feeling takes places in the second layer of skin and not the topmost.

-Sense of touch is the first to emerge and the last to burn out among the senses.

-Babies who are regularly massaged/touched gain weight 50% faster. They are more active, more alert, responsive, aware of their surroundings. They orient faster and are more emotionally in control.

-Sense of self has mostly to do with the the sense of touch and how one "feels"

-Amadou Hampate Ba says:
Learn to listen to silence and you will discover it's music.