design@ait end of year show

Just back from our end of year show. Really enjoyed it - a wonderful show from a great group of students. This was our first show on the main AIT campus in 22 years, and our new space looked great. Its' always so exciting to see the fruits of the students labour (and ours!) on those 8ft x 4ft boards at the end of their time with us. And there was plenty of exciting on screen work this year with 17 students in the digital media class. This year was special for me because although I've been on maternity leave for most of it, this was the first time I had taught every one of the qualifying students, and they're a great bunch of people. Good luck to them heading out into the big wide world!

(by the way there was live streaming of the opening which was fun to see and worked really well... I was getting texts from friends and ex students as far away as Denmark watching us there. Check out the blog

Couldn't resist

Couldn't resist posting this... It was recorded by my husband while I was out and my 4 year old son needed to tell me about "a bit of a pain" he was having... at bed time (always a bad time for pain/hunger pangs/anything that'll buy him an extra few minutes in the kitchen!).

The description is a bit synaesthetic... although my son is not!

MY WORK SPACE

work in progress... I'll write some background here soon

The Perfect Circle of Sound

Some of the Research into the Sense of Sound

As part of my research into synaesthesia I have also been investigating the 5 senses individually. In the previous post I highlighted something that very much tied into synaesthesia - sound creating form. Also when investigating the sense of sound I came across "The Solfeggio Frequencies"

This is an ancient scale and is a 9 tone sequence of electro magnetic frequencies. They were used in the ancient Gregorian chants and are believed to impart tremendous transformation and healing emotionally and spiritually. Sometimes referred to as "the perfect circle of sound" due to their immaculate symmetry of mathamatics and the sacred geometry in the vibrations of their sound frequencies.

The frequencies are: 174Hz; 285Hz, 396Hz, 417Hz; 528Hz; 639Hz; 741Hz; 852Hz

There are 111Hz between each one.

They are linked to the physics of creation - bio chemists use the electromagnetic frequency 528Hz to repair broken DNA - the blueprint of life.

I am thinking of using them to form some of the audio in my final motion piece on synaesthesia ... but lets not mention AfterEffects!

another part of the research so far

This is really quite amazing in my opinion... sound creating form....

hmmm maybe I won't need After Effects after all!)

And another installment... from neuroscience to cymatics to metaphor and language... all roads are leading to synaesthesia now. ... its all in the eye of the beholder!

a little part of the research...

Vilayanur Ramachandran

An interesting talk by one of the world's top neurologists about the creative centre of the brain, recognition, abstraction, metaphor, and synesthesia and how they relate to structures in the brain.