Seeing the unseeable.

To have some idea of the task in hand I first looked up some work by Samson Young, Ori Gersht (https://www.origersht.com/) and a few visual exhibitions where creations of sounds was the main framework. The best way I thought to do this exercise is to start off with recording some sounds and then to come up with some photographic representations of that sound.

The sound I decided to work with is a short segment of the workmen putting in new gas pipes around the estate. After recording, editing the recording a bit and adding some surround reverb, I eventually used the sound clip as a base. This is the recording displayed below.

 Overall, I was quite happy with the sound that I came up with. There is a lot of metallic drones in the sound clip and this gave it a edgy industrial feeling with some unexpected surprises as metal was hit together to keep the listener alert. 

To keep in line with the general mood of the sound clip I came up with a graphic score to fit the edgy mood that is perceived by the listener. This example is shown below.

 

I decided to use black and white photographs with high contrast as I felt this would give the photographs some of that industrial metallic feel that perpetuates throughout the clip. I decided to take a few pictures of stains and decay that was around the estate to fit the mood. The pictures to complement the sound is displayed below.

And as a extra attempt, I tried to encapsulate the whole of the sound clip with a montage that I constructed. This montage is shown below.

 As a conclusion, I thought I did better than I would have done in completing this task. I tend to only use Photoshop for things that could have easily been done in the film days. Some of this was a new adventure for me. Even though I didn't use the easiest sound clip to work on, I feel that I did manage to pick up some of the feelings of the sounds.