Raul Sanchez[1] and I collaborated in composing a soundscape (Damage and Sanchez 2022) comprised exclusively of recordings of my analogue photographic processes to accompany a display of images I have created for Studio 1. Sanchez made the recordings in situ, resampling and mixing the material in his studio. Contemplating Wabi Sabi' sound', I have edited the soundscape and embedded it into a slideshow of random images created for my Studio 1 projects. Titled Exposure (Damage and Sanchez 2022), the composition reflects the 'evolving' and 'devolving' Wabi Sabi aesthetic, transforming 'process' into music to further challenge the 'photographic index'[2] while exploring modes of representing and iterating 'musical emotion', perception and observational awareness of the photographer's presence and intention in the image (Berger 1972, 10).
Footnotes
Sanchez is a founding member of Melbourne rock band Magic Dirt, solo artist, sound artist and recording engineer.
“Photography is indexical insofar as the represented object is ‘imprinted’ by light and the chemical (or electronic) process on the image, creating a visual likeness that possesses a degree of accuracy and ‘truthfulness’ unattainable in purely iconic signs such as painting, drawing, or sculpture.” (Sadowski 2011)
According to Sanchez, the Kontakt is “a plugin sampler that can vary the pitch, and length etc, of the sounds to create a variety of Virtual Instruments”.
Keywords
Studio 1, Wabi Sabi, Sound, Soundscape, Slideshow, Raul Sanchez, Sound art
Bibliography
Berger, John. 1972. Ways of Seeing. Penguin Books
Damage, Zo. 2022. 2022. “Slideshow with soundscape 2”. Zo Damage. June 7, 2022. YouTube video, 02:57. https://youtu.be/3ek06V-vqWU.
Damage, Zo, and Raul Sanchez. 2022. Exposure. Online soundtrack. https://zed-oh.com/mfa-journal/exposure-soundtrack.
Sadowski, Piotr. 2011. “The Iconic Indexicality Of Photography”. John Benjamins Publishing Catalog. https://benjamins.com/catalog/ill.10.20sad.
Sanchez, Raul. 2022. Experimental music. Email.