Visualizing the monologue…

Although not the actual monologue piece for the project, i’ve got a piece from the film No Country For Old Men, which i nabbed from soundcloud.com.

After seeing the spectrographs from Martin’s project, that visual representation of sound clued me into one of the visuals i want for my piece. And so, off to find some way to replicate that. With a demo of some software called Photosounder (which as well as turning audio to spectrographs, can actually turn normal pictures into sounds).  http://photosounder.com/ . With that, i was able to produce this spectrograph. Click to view better.

So, rotating that 90 degrees clockwise, mirroring it, i got this. Again, click for better view.

Now, taken into After Effects, and put a solid over the compostion to make a mask, so it’ll only reveal a thin line in the middle. then a simple movement moving it up, and syncing it with audio. And add a glow effect. And result…

Marvelous. The aim was to represent the speech as if it’s coming through an interface for the installation. As a basic experiment for a process, this works great, however… I’ve perhaps already improved to make it have a more science aesthetic. It does actually remind me of the Large Hadron Collider

 

Progress!