Ostinato: A Sonorous Investigation & Intervention

Grounded in Architecture and Sculpture, my passion remains inspired by the surrounding environment and its relationship with people. I consider the manipulation of space and how it shapes perceptual qualities a way to inspire emotional attachment to the particular worlds they encompass. By encouraging viewers to reinterpret their own realities, systematic approaches can dictate new environments lo the public. Returning to an overarching theme; Can a person engage in self-reflection through an environment? The Sublime is defined adjectivally, 'of such excellence, grandeur, or beauty as to inspire great admiration or awe.' It is also interpreted archaically as something that elevates to a high degree of moral , spiritual purity or excellence. By touching on sublimity in architecture and what it is to experience, it presents the opportunity to create something greater than ourselves. If architecture and media are becoming an expanding field; can sound be used as an experience to engage the sublime? Through a series of experimentation of sound and space, could one situate this position; "How do you detach from what one sees, from what one knows?" (Eisenman) Architecture unlike any other discipline, is concertized in vision.Therefore, the introduction of an intangible force (like sound) and the coordination of a system, could analyze the way ii affects a person physiologically, psychologically, cognitively and behaviorally. By rendering an installation for a participant, could one's presence affect the manipulation of sound within the space to create an overall sublimity for that individual. By mediating the project through an interaction, it would allow the user to define their own experience rather than an authoritative guide. Self-reflection is revealed through the journey of perception.

Grantor dc:publisher

State University of New York at Buffalo

Year dc:date.issued

2018

Author dc:creator

• Wightman, John; 0000-0002-9380-2912

Contributors dc:contributor

• Garofalo, Laura
• Architecture
• Media Study

• architecture

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Language dc:language

eng

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http://hdl.handle.net/10477/78102

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