Museum of the Seasons

Museum of the Seasons
A collaboration between David Pohl and self selected students of Vincentian Academy

Objectives

1) Create a sound installation for the Legacy gARTen based on the four seasons.

2) Create a (collaborative) online archive of images, sounds, and videos documenting the process
of working on the gARTen during the course of one year, over all four seasons.

3) Explore new ways of thinking about sound:

Sound as texture, mood and color
Sound as sculpture: Ambient music & soundscapes
Spoken word & poetry as an art form
Repetition in sound used for creating meditative environments
Time based art
Contemplation of time/seasons/cycles (Seasons of Life)

Here's a list of the audio, video and photo sharing sites for our project

GarageBand for uploading audio files & podcasts.

Legacy gARTen on Flickr

Blip TV for uploading and sharing video on our blog.

How To Use Garage Band (Part One)

The Zoom H2 Digital Recorder

This is the Zoom H2 digital recorder which we are going to use to capture sound for the gARTen.
It has four built in microphones for 360 degree surround sound recording. It records on a SD
memory card (just like a digital camera) and connects to a computer (Windows & Mac) with
a USB plug.

Here's a link a PDF document of the owner's manual.

Rebirth

The Color Green

Green brings to mind the season of Spring, reawakening, rebirth, and life.

Sounds

Vibrant Horns and violin - announcing new life

The squish of a dropped sponge as it hits the floor - the lushness of green vegetation

A low humming - the pulse of life



"Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises."

--Pedro Calderon de la Barca [15th Century Spanish Poet and Playwright]

Soul Meets Sea- Fall into the Blue

Waves are rolling through your head, distance and yet distinct. You think of the ocean, wide and deep, for it is calling to you. You look out on the horizon, where the sky and water meet. It has no divide, no line separating water from air. You smell the salt hear the bow line creak in the wind. You hear the harsh cry of a gull, and you spirit flows free. Free of the constrains of your body, you look around. It is a world of blue, never ending, always continuing with the curve. The wind whips around your ears, whistling. The ocean is there, stretching forever into the dawn.

Waves, with french horns gradually increasing in mellow tones, coming into the tones of the trumpets, sweet and soothing. A piano plays in the background, a piece called Sea Voyage. You can close your eyes and simply imagine the ocean in all of it's blue splendor.

Yellow

Coldplay - "Yellow"

Yellow in Seasons

Summer - Sun, Light, Sunlight

Fall - Leaves

Winter - Lights, Candles, Fire, Warmth

Spring - Flowers

Qualities of Yellow

Bright

Cheerful

Sunshine

Energy

Light

Vibrancy

Sounds of Yellow

Trumpets

Horns

Flutes

Lighter sounds

“The colours red, blue and green are real. The colour yellow is a mystical experience shared by everybody.”(Stoppard, 1967).

The Color Red

A few things that remind me of the color red.

Red:

Saxaphone

Cardinal Call

Lower Notes of the Piano

There are a lot of Cardinals around my house and in the winter I love to look at them. Cardinals are red and that's where the association comes from.

I would use the lower notes on the piano because there is the darker side to the color red. It is the color of blood, the color of war.

"Lady Macbeth:

Out, damn'd spot! out, I say!–One; two: why, then

'tis time to do't.–Hell is murky.–Fie, my lord, fie, a soldier, and

afeard? What need we fear who knows it, when none can call our

pow'r to accompt?–Yet who would have thought the old man to

have had so much blood in him?" Shakespeare Macbeth

This quote reminds me of red because it is blood that Lady Macbeth is seeing on her hands.

There were more but I can't remember the names of the instruments. Red really isn't one of my favorite colors so there is not much I can say about it.

Red, Red Wine   by: Bob Marley