Gazing (LCF World Music Day)

Gazing (LCF World Music Day) 

In early April, I received and opportunity to submit to collaborate with an LCF fashion student for World Music Day. For this celebration, they challenged us Sound Art students to submit pieces of work (1 minute long) for the fashion students to choose and respond to through fashion. With this project, they want to create a video piece of the sound and apparel together. 

For the piece I submitted and was selected for, I wanted to translate the feeling of gazing at something intently, into sound. When I started putting this piece together, it felt like I had to make something runway-ready as well which was an interesting catalyst for my work process, I enjoyed it. I experimented with Max/MSP to create the intro washing sounds, originally I used harp samples because it felt like a sonic leitmotiv for all things beautiful, which is where I experimented with the audio in Max/MSP. After these rushing, washed-out synths, I really wanted to shatter that feeling with a really intense beat I made using modular synthesis, while still remaining consistent throughout the one minute. I’ll be partnered with Mira Miktabi and we should have more progress on May 31st.