GMU:Sustainable Aesthetics/Juyoun Oh

Ideas

As we experimented the Lemon battery, the electric current could also be produced by, for example, potatoes, or humans. In my project, I'd like to work with this concept. Supposedly each object has a different volume of electricity. When I can auditoryize different currents, it could be played like instruments.

In additional, I'm also curious about friction. If an object is frictioned by an impact, does an electric current occur then? Or does it change from the current it originally had? For example, when I hit an iron hanger on an iron laundry dryer(clothes dryer), friction occurs, and will electricity be generated?

i rlly don't know why sometime the picture are shown on the page without any link connections..

10.12.2022 A test with the piezo microphone

https://youtu.be/t_fpvrnxf4o

i took this video by using my DSLR to record my performance and iPhone to record the sound. I put the iPhone just next to the computer. and at the same time i used able-ton for sound... I edited this video with Final Cut X to combine the sound and video.

Personally I think there is a lot of problems. even it is really horrible to just listen to it. It is too noisy and sounds really somehow dirty. and my DIY piezo microphone is too large for strings on the clothe dryer. How can I make the sound more clear?

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* In terms of sustainability in aesthetics

it could be a solution or art which is green and more eco friendly. to be ...

For me, the definition of aesthetics has a wide range of diversity. Sometimes it should be visually aesthetic. On the other hand, it could look ugly, but the content can be aesthetic. The point is harmony and symmetry of itself.

When it comes to sustainability in aesthetics, the final artwork should be eco-friendly and green which means it will be proper when we work with recycled stuff or nature-resource. Either the solution of the works could be for future.

Experiments

Experiments

References

Marzelline’s Confessions

By Jocelyn Ho

Domestic tools to become new musical instruments

• https://isea2022.isea-international.org/event/performance-womens-labor-embedded-iron/

Prototype 432

Bernardas Bagdanavicius

"The prototype is constructed of steel elements united in a three dimensional matrix structure. Electric guitar steel strings are incorporated into machined heads attached to the steel frame. All 432 strings are crossed and spaced at regular intervals and each of them is has a contact microphone connected to the sound system and operated by computer. It is a closed circuit energy generator for the sound object."

• https://archello.com/project/prototype-432

Thomas Saraceno

• https://www.ignant.com/2019/11/27/in-conversation-with-tomas-saraceno-the-artist-who-wants-us-to-enter-a-non-human-world-of-vibration/

Aeolin harp

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buZjtQv-Wng

Theremin

simple way to make a theremin

• https://www.kocoafab.cc/tutorial/view/363?ckattempt=1