Matt Johnson 302-003

     Cymatics was a phenomena that I wasn't familiar with, before having been introduced the subject last week. I can say that a really enjoyed the video clips shown in class, especially Dylan's own suggested video of mushroom shapes rendered from digital sound-waves. The phenomena is unique in that it allows sensorial experiences to be viewed from multiple sensory platforms. That is, we can see how sound waves can resonate and effect one's physical environment, forming and re-forming shapes of sand, tar-ish liquid, or any number of malleable shapes. Through cymatics we get this sense of texture, specifically in focusing in on sound. Perhaps our senses are not as singular and divided from one another as we may think. Certainly synesthesia imparts this idea where, both conceptually and physically, modal stimuli resonate and are applicable to one another; i.e.sound waves produce hues, tastes have color, etc.      I believe that having a blurred set of senses...

      Reflecting on my sound recording experience, I found that our group worked well together, bouncing  ideas off of one another, as well as allowing our own idiosyncratic personalities to be a pretext for creative designs; e.g. the horrific demon cries of Christian or lovely mouth sounds by Dylan.       The small group format was, again, great for fostering collective ideals on how we should go about composing our sound library; but was also helpful in re-familiarizing ourselves with the equipment and re-affirming the importance of work with others. It's essential that we all learn to work with others and allow communal input and different threads of ideas to conceive of a unified project. One in which neither singular creativity in hindered, nor the ideas of others eschewed.