Acoustic Ecology

What was so interesting to me about the Acoustic Ecology article was that while I read it my window was open and all I could hear were cars riding up and down the road.  It had never really occurred to me how much human interaction has interfered with the natural sounds of the world.  It is inspiring to know that some national parks are taking steps to limit this intrusion.  Taking sound a step further I think that the “noise” of life has detached us so far from our primal selves that we have lost who we are biologically.  We are not the hunter-gatherer type people anymore but slaves to the developing world around us.  When I was reading about the effects of underwater sounds on the wildlife it literally turned my stomach and made me wonder when is this going to stop?  When are we as humanity going to see that we are just running in circles and doing more damage than good?

Crowdsourcing

Crowdsourcing ultimately seems like a great concept that is helping a lot of people.  Without crowdsourcing we would not have access to the insanely useful and informative wikipedia.  Crowdfunding has also provided a great route for independent fillmmakers as well as artists from all of the world to be able to achieve their goals and dreams.  Collaboration through the internet is bringing people together that would otherwise be kept apart.  The cloud filmmaking was a great example of how crowdsourcing is serving to reach out to people in numerous ways.  As more people gain access to the internet this has the opportunity to revolutionize the way many of us work and create.  There are still many cons to crowdsourcing as well and it runs the risk of oversaturation and leeches.  Hopefully through time as people increase their collaborations the kinks will be worked out of this amazing system.

Synesthesia and Cymatics

The interesting aspect of synesthesia in art is how different artists with this condition operate and experience the world.  Even people that do not have the condition can still experience in some ways if specific artworks will accommodate and explore this particular field.  When I begin to think about the relations of painting and music when it comes to the visuals they can involuntarily produce within in a person it literally blows my mind.  Cymatics made me think even further about the vibrations made by sound.  Although we can’t see sound it indeed has an unseen form.  When observing these sounds people are gaining deeper understanding of the natural world, even animals speech.  Through various machines we are able to see the forms that various sounds give off giving an entire new dimension to sound.  Cymatics may have even had a hand in the formation of the universe and if that doesn’t blow your mind I don’t know what will.