✳ SOUND · COGNITION · CREATION
How doessound becomeexperience?
A vibration. A pattern. A possibility.
Follow one sound through seven transformations.
Find the questions it leaves behind.
An original synthetic sound study. Headphones welcome.
01 BENEATH THE SURFACE
A hidden order.
Made visible.
The sculpture opens. What looked like a single object becomes a landscape of time and frequency.
These contours come from the sound you heard. Follow a note across the surface; look for the quieter structures around it.
Where the data ends, and the art begins +
In the open spectrum, time runs left to right and frequency rises from bottom to top on a logarithmic scale. Spectral magnitude shapes the relief and colour. The folding, material, light and later transformations are artistic choices.
Read the method02 WHAT CAME BEFORE
Two histories.
One ending.
A sound arrives with a past. Can a different beginning change the way an identical ending feels?
ENDING
ENDING
Does the ending feel different?
No right answer. Just a moment of attention.What stays the same? +
Both sequences play the exact same target file after different synthetic contexts and an 80 ms gap. The sculpture illustrates two paths converging; it does not model the listener’s response. Impressions are not collected as scientific evidence.
03 BEFORE THE NEXT NOTE
The future is
still open.
The form separates into three possible paths. Choose one. Listen to where the phrase could go.
Three composed examples. The paths express possibilities; their shape and size do not represent model probabilities.
04 FOLLOW THE QUESTION
Curiosity,
given a method.
An impression becomes a question. A question asks for a model. A model must meet evidence.
COMPUTATIONAL RESEARCH / IN DEVELOPMENTMusical Intelligence
An executable framework for investigating relationships between musical structure, perception and cognition.
Explore the frameworkThe woven structure is a visual metaphor. A computational architecture can generate hypotheses; explaining human experience requires empirical testing.
Research notes05 THOUGHT, MADE TANGIBLE
Some questions
become works.
Listening leads to making. A composition, an instrument, a visual study: another way to think with sound.
STUDY 001A sound, unfolded.
The sound, the analysis, and the choices behind this experience.
COMPOSITION / AMAÇ ERDEMThe music behind
the questions.
Explore the compositional and research practice.
All work06 BACK TO THE BEGINNING
Same sound.
Another listen.
You have followed its structure, changed its context and imagined its future.
What do you notice now?
Back to the first foldAn independent research and creative practice
at the meeting point of sound, cognition and creation.
Initiated by Amaç Erdem