Experimental Audio Assignment

Experimental Audio Assignment

Thomas Moran

The Coconino Forest, Arizona, (1907)

Thomas Moran was an American Painter, In the early 1860, Thomas Moran traveled to Lake Superior, where he painted and sketched the Landscape of the Great Lakes. Back in philadelphia he sold lithographs of the great lakes before setting off on another trip, this time to London, to see the work of the famed British landscape and marine painter JMW Turner. Thomas Moran replications of Thomas Moran's work so impressed the director of the National Gallery that he was given a private room to work in. Upon returning to the U.S, Moran wanted to go to west again and paint but had to wait for the right opportunity.

That opportunity came in the form of Ferdinand V. Hayden's 1871 Geological Survey Expedition to what is now Yellowstone National park. Thomas Moran was hired, along with photographer William Henry Jackson, to document the landscape of the region. He could not have chosen a better trip or companion, as the combined talents of Moran and Jackson in documenting the geysers, hot springs, canyons and cliffs of the "Yellow Stone Territory" would be instrumental in persuading Congress to set the land aside as a National Park. It was on this trip that Thomas Moran Painted his two most famous work.

My another inspirational artist is John Martin was an English painter, engraver and illustrator. He was celebrated for his typically vast and melodramatic paintings of religious subjects and fantastic compositions, populated with minute figures placed in imposing landscapes. He caught the public imagination with spectacular paintings such as Joshua Commanding the Sun to Stand Still (1816, United Grand Lodge of Great Britain, London) the work that made his reputation, and in 1821 Lawrence referred to him as 'the most popular painter of the day'.

This is the brief intro of some artists to whom I inspired by and for my Experimental Audio Assignment I have chosen this painting (The Coconino Forest) of Thomas Moran. After witnessing this work of art one compels to accept the theory of William Wordworth that is for art sake. The picture of waterfall gives us glimpse of natural beauty of rural mountainous terrain, with lavish greenery and different biodiversity of flora and fauna.

In this picture where we can hear some solid and perceived sound of biotic factors such as chirping of different birds like Crane and some reptiles and abiotic factors such as splash of water, cracking sound of water through stones and breezing; and nevertheless at same time we feel some unuttered sound.

William Wordworth rightly said that art is for art sake. This picture where gives us ecstasy of visionary effects and at the same time some auditory feelings like sound energy such as blooming of flower flattering of butterfly and whizzing and rattle sound of leaves by dint of our imagination.

For this Experimental Audio Assignment I have recorded 80% of sound by myself, Like I went small hydropower plant to record the sound of a waterfall, and I went to a farm to record the sound of Sandhill Crane and chirping of birds, for which I had to wait for a very long time. I also wanted to record the sound of the wind but I couldn't because I didn't have the equipment. And I've used a BOYA BY-M1 mic to record all these sounds. And after recording all these sounds I've do editing in Adobe Premiere Pro software.