Jack Colwell and I made sounds in the kitchen, with glass, water, steel and ice.
With recordings of these, Jack composed sounds, in response to these animations:
Christine McMillan drew after dancing:
water freezing and melting.
These are some dialogues artists are having with ice.
Nice to see a jellyfish with such strong direction.
Ha!
The Sea butterfly is actually a zooplankton,
She moves like a jellyfish here because she is unhappy.
She can also move quite quickly, and in different directions as if impulsively.
Perhaps she has moods.
john hughes wrote:
I agree.
Yes, the pteropod can be a starting point, which may end up in the centre.
I assume you are referring to 42 days
Yes. Structure is very important. That’s what I like to start, to build within. It can change of course, but I need it to begin.
I like the idea of a maze, and have drawn and written some thoughts here.
Perhaps I could build that snow crystal interface in Flash.
If the new version makes this easier I am delighted, as writing action scripts in Flash4 is not straightforward.
I much prefer to be able to do my own coding.
The maze would allow viewers a choice to follow my journey, or to see animations in a random way by clicking on the crystal’s nodes.
I am confident I can work out how to do that, as I’ve done something similar using Director.
I love the idea that no one snow crystal is ever the same as another, just as no moment is the same as another.
So I would really like to make a bunch of snow crystal images and have them randomly appear when you go to that that interface. So the way into the work would vary visually, yet maintain its interactive structure.
It’s a bit of tricknology really, because I would be coding to make something look cleverer than it is. Coding at a deeper level would have the lines describing the crystals draw themselves endlessly and randomly, as you might see in a screen saver.
I don’t know if it’s possible to do this in Flash, but would like to try.
But the first thing is to work on the journey – my journey – which I am sharing with other people. But essentially they my historical links with Antarctica, and my emotional responses that I am working with.
At the moment I am collecting bits to tell about that journey.
And working out how to tell about that journey is the present journey of course.
I wake to see the Pteropod
become the Southern Ocean
unfurling round Antarctica
in circling cyclic motion.
Her body has become the sea
choked in Carbon dioxide.
Will we sleep as factories breathe
until the sea has died?
Speaking of jellyfish, I recall my childhood on the edge of the harbour when they would arrive in certain seasons like micro clouds in their thousands.
The sea butterfly sound you have made evokes the ever present jangling of boat rigging as the sheet shackles chime against the masts swaying back and forth, jellyfish below.
I like how everyday sounds can connect with our memories.
Such sounds can be used to connect us with alien landscapes.