How to find the inspiration of works collection? The natural light once introduced to you that art exhibitions are a good place for you to find inspiration. You may say that the exhibition is based on space, and it has sufficient conditions to play and convey sound. But except for film, animation and other majors, most of our works can only be uploaded to colleges and universities in the form of pictures. So how should sound be presented on the basis of vision? How to let the admissions officer hear the "voice" of your works?

The most popular exhibition in Beijing recently was in Yangmei's "Too Empty". Lei An, a visual designer, subversively used visual illusion and cooperated with sound processing to create many spaces that do not exist in reality and create many "illusions". For the reason why these works are so popular, According to the author Lei An, "When people understand something, it is very easy to turn a blind eye to it. If they can see it, hear it, and communicate with the works through physical perception, it is easier to create wonderful connections between each other and stimulate our reflection on the conventional world."

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Isn't the purpose of "communicating effectively through works", "connecting with the audience" and "breaking the rules" exactly what we want the admissions officers and colleges to see through works? No, according to this inspiration logic, the admissions officer "hears" it!

How to apply sound design to art works?

01. Sound design is an art discipline:

When sound is used in artistic creation, it needs to be transformed visually through design. When it comes to sound design of works collection, many people may think that it belongs to the discipline of music. In fact, sound design belongs to the field of our art design, from design techniques to presentation methods. LCC/ London School of Communication There are special Sound Arts and Design/sound art design.

We can learn the specific subject content from its subject introduction: BA (Hons) Sound Arts and Design centres on the creative use of sound, both as a medium in its own right and in support of other media,including sound design for film,animation,field recording and soundscape studies,as well as interactive programming,multi-channel composition,digital improvisation and sound art installations.

Sound design is centered on the creative use of sound, which can be used both as a design result itself and to support other design disciplines, including film, animation, recording and sound scene design, as well as interactive devices, multi-dimensional composition, digital creation and sound art devices.

It can be seen that sound design is a typical interdisciplinary, and even it can be applied to the creation process of different disciplines like any design technique. With the development of new media technology, LCC lists more and more works in the form of sound "cross-border support" to films, animations, interactive devices, etc., which will be easy for students to understand.

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02. Use sound to convey truth:

However, when the sound design of the work collection is applied to more diverse disciplines such as pure art, clothing, and products, it can more collide with different sparks, which is also a creative way worthy of students to try and find inspiration.

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Not long ago, we interpreted this year's graduation exhibition of Huangyi for everyone. One of the works of a student majoring in product design was impressive. The student recorded the voice of his dying relatives, and then after the death of the deceased, he made acoustic model products with 3D printing technology using ashes as raw materials. Through this design, he recorded the traces of the life of the deceased, It is used to bridge the distance between the living and the dead.

In this work, sound not only turns into a concrete visual element - "sound wave", but also becomes a carrier of emotion, giving the original single form of handicrafts, candlesticks and other products the artistic value of conveying emotional information, and giving our viewers a stronger sensory impact.

As one of the top universities in the art world, Huangyi has always been committed to cultivating designers who meet the needs of the times, and has constantly carried out interdisciplinary practice projects. Its exploration of sound design is not only reflected in students' works, but also integrated into disciplinary education.

Information Experience Design (IED)/Information Experience Design, one of the popular majors of Huangyi, divides students into three training directions, and Sound Design/Sound Design is one of them. Most of the courses in this direction are carried out in the form of laboratories. Students share studios with students in other majors such as visual communication, animation and digital direction, and Huangyi also encourages students in various disciplines to cooperate on projects.

Let's take the work of one of our classmates as an example. This is a large installation work. It looks like a broken wall on the whole. The stones falling from the wall are equipped with speakers. The audience can pick up and listen to the voices recorded by the author in advance, including the roar of war, the crying of children, and some stories being told.

Through this work, the author hopes to make the audience feel the real situation of people who lost their homes or even lost their families due to war, and appeals to everyone to cherish peace and pay attention to the refugee problem. This strong sensory impact may not be enough to be expressed only through vision, but through these sounds from the scene, the scene in the audience's mind becomes three-dimensional and more sympathetic.

From this case, we can see that the rational use of sound elements can greatly shorten the distance between us and the real world. It is also a way for students to choose social or humanistic themes for creation, which can balance the creative points of works and restore the profound significance behind real events.

03. Color perception in sound:

Of course, the sound design of the works collection can not only express the heavy topics, but also transmit the truth, which is the most fundamental role of sound. When we use the combination of technology and art to create a new communication experience through vision and language, it is another direction of our exploration.

At Parsons Parsons School of Design In the fashion design class, Parsons invited students from Mannes Conservatory of Music to create an experimental project that integrates technology and music into clothing. Music itself is an appealing sound form. Parsons students use recyclable rechargeable batteries and liquid screens as clothing fabrics. These new technologies transcend the limits of material performance and visually present the original music works of Mannes College students.

They use a classic white dress of symphony as the prototype, project it onto the dress with bright geometric shapes, and dance with the music played by the performers wearing them. The black and white color blocks represent the keys of the pianist. With the arrival of the drum, the green sphere and the red triangle begin to beat with the rhythm.

People will have color perception of music. This theory is actually proposed by psychologists, but it can also be verified in our lives. Just as we often think that sad songs are cold, when we hear happy songs, the picture in our mind will become bright. As for symphony, the ups and downs and changes of music are more abundant, and the color perception brought to us should also be more beautiful.

With the development of society and the progress of science and technology, the emergence of new disciplines such as new media and interaction also tells us that the interaction between audiences and works of art is more and more worthy of our attention. Through the above cases, sound is one of the design elements that can help us achieve interaction.

How can the admissions officer hear the "voice" of your works? Today, natural light introduces the sound design of these works. In the process of creating our works, we can also try this "sensory crossover" more often. By using sound, taste, touch and other forms, we can jump out of the "picture frame" and establish more possibilities for the form of works of art, which can also help us to create more opportunities to communicate with colleges, universities The admissions officer talks and communicates the works of the collection!

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