For Susan

HI Susan

I just came across this and was struck by it in relation to your work. I'm firing it up here without much pondering over - it just struck me as I said. I was thinking of your "water" ring and the points you made on the wearability/ comfort etc and thought that the almost droplet / flow feel to the back of this ring may provide some inspiration of sorts (totally ignore the front on this). Any way here is it....

It's closed here, but the leg of the "K" makes it look open, (like those size adjustable rings kind of) and that is what to my eye gives is the spash/flow effect. Or.... maybe not!

I love the development you mentioned in voicehtread - with the movement within the piece... It reminded me immediately of a big gold bangle my mother had in the 70's... one of those that had a hinge on one side and a clasp on the other... (you push the 2 hemispheres together to close it.) Maybe the "flow" element in this image could connect back around to a rivet or hinge. This could further highlight the wave type movement through the way the piece is moved by the wearer to put it on/off?

First Steps After E-Journal 01

REV E- Journal 01 Voicethread / 08 June 2011

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!