SOUND WORK：Feast Frenzy in Two Bodies
ARTIST：LIN YUXIN&QIN YUJIA
ARTIST：LIN YUXIN&QIN YUJIA
Concept:
Do human beings only produce sound with their mouths? In fact, the nose, eyes, skin, stomach, and pulse also generate subtle and unique sounds. These bodily noises, often overlooked in daily life, form what we call the “human soundscape.” By using a stethoscope to record the acoustic activity of various organs from our two bodies.
We invite the audience to see the body through sound—to imagine the shape, height, weight, and personality of the person who produces these sounds. From sound and imagination, a new, unfamiliar human is born.
Background：
As children, we pressed our ears to our mother’s belly and heard the muffled rhythms of her heartbeat and digestive system. Resting our heads on the desk during a nap, we could feel the pulse in our arms. After running, our heartbeat pounded like a drum. Even farts, swallows, and coughs are part of this symphony of life.
These sounds are not easy to pay attention to in normal, and these kinds of sounds form the “human soundscape,” which is the evidence of a person's real life apart from the sound produced by the vocal cords. These sounds are evidence that a person is alive, and the sounds made by specific body parts have also become the standard by which doctors assess health. Because of the differences in shape and different habits of action, two different people inevitably produce different sounds but also become a unique sound identity for each person.
Connect the stethoscope to a tape recorder and two people record in separate vocal tracks
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Recorded audio was reassembled in logic pro using quicksample, where a keyboard was used to make the audio speed and timbre change, and noise reduction and reverb effects were used to add layers to the sound. Also make sure that the sound match with the story.
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Delete the opposite channel through Audacity
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Our tools and connect way. Because stethoscopes use vibrations to transmit sound, the tube is held against the radio microphone to collect sound.
STORY :
REFERENCE：
1. Free to use sound(2022)remind that the working function of contact mic. When it comes into contact with the surface of an object, it can record the sound of striking the object itself.
Testing:
The contact mic only sounds when there is a relatively large vibration, other relatively weak sounds cannot be detected. So pass with the contact mic recording option.
2. In Christina Kubisch (2013) Electrical Walks use a audio amplifier was modified by connecting it to a wire in the wall so that the audience could hear the sound in the object through the other end. It was inspired by the fact that a stethoscope is also a type of amplifier, and that a stethoscope transmits sound by vibrating, and that by combining it with a tape recorder and transmitting it to headphones, one can hear sounds from inside the body.
Testing:
Stethoscopes have a great ability to transmit sound, and by simply touching their other end to a microphone, we can record very loud breathing and heartbeat sounds, and even blinking.
3. Everyone's breathing rate and heart rate is different, gaga's heart rate will be slower, lin's heart rate will be faster and hard to slow down after exercise, and the rhythm of the heartbeat is different.
4. This is because the zoom H4n is a dual head microphone, one left channel and one right channel, whereas the stethoscope interface has only one channel. We came up with an interaction pattern through this structure, where gaga's heartbeat and breathing sounds are on the right channel and lin's are recorded through the left channel. Then at the end the combination through the logic pro creates a special kind of interaction.
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2.Free To Use Sounds. (2022, October 26). They Say Cheap Mics Can’t Compete – This Proves Them Wrong! Youtube.
3.Julius, E. (n.d.). Minimalist compositions: Body as rhythm.
4.Ian Maleney. (2016, October 18). Julius Eastman’s Femenine. Music & Literature. https://www.musicandliterature.org/reviews/2016/10/18/julius-eastmans-femenine
5.TEDx Talks. (2016, May 31). Exploring the human soundscape | Choral Stimulation | TEDxUniversityofGlasgow. YouTube.