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Early Work: Crypto Acoustic Game
Unseen Sound Documentation
Unseen Sound at E.A.A.T
Screenshots of Unseen Sound
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Unseen Sound Sound files
A collection of the raw sound files used within Andy Slater’s Unseen Sound. These can also be found on: https://newart.city/catalog/unseen-sound
Presentations of Unseen Sound
Unseen Sound Blueprints / ScoresDescriptions
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Reflections and Interviews: Andy Slater
Total Running Time at E.A.A.T
Audiovisual Installation - Using spatial projection
These initial conceptual sketches capture my idea of a space that would allow people to walk through; the element of self-navigation is important. The proportion of this space g...
Previous work with projection on panels
These images from “The Tip of my Tongue,” an earlier work of mine, show what a fractured projected visual could look and feel like. It has the narrow panels that can’t contain t...
CripTech Incubator Exhibition, Beall Center for Art and Technology, UC Irvine
An early exploration developed in relation to the Beall Center’s architecture, this installation explores how the work could be shaped by the physical site of the exhibition. Re...
Video development: Visual translation of signing and conducting
These are examples of raw footage that I started with, and then the heavily digitized and manipulated video that you see later. I just wanted to make a point that they come from...
Video development: Notations of volume and discernment
In these images, the symbols like “ppp” and “mf” are dynamics notations in music. It's how loud and soft the sound is intended to be. To me, it's more about how much I can hear....
Video Development: Piano as a Body
Piano as a Body is a previous work that I built on for Song without Words. For Piano as a Body, I took my piano apart and I put my camera inside, and it's like, wow. I always im...
Video Development: Audiovisual Installation-Panels and Space
The video for Song Without Words was developed to be projected on a series of fabric panels as part of an experiential installation; visitors would walk through it, as opposed t...
Video Development: Movements
Song without Words is composed of three movements:
The first movement: explores the relationship between body and piano through touch, movement, and vibration
The second movemen...
Haptic Development: Initial Concepts
Initially, the haptic elements of this project were envisioned as a wearable that would allow someone to feel sound on the body. This direction didn’t get pursued but was picked...
Haptic Development: Radios
One of the original ideas for this project was a wearable haptic object, but that did not get made due to logistic challenges and time limitations. The sonic hack and the spatia...
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Audio Development: My Story
The first movement of Song Without Words plays around with captioning and a couple levels of sound perception. For example, there’s a voiceover of me reading my story, but that ...
Song without Words at E.A.A.T
Photo documentation of the exhibition at the Beall Center, on view from September 30, 2023 to January 13, 2024, captures Song Without Words as an immersive multi-channel install...
Reflections and Interviews: Olivia Ting
During the project, the Ground Works team interviewed Olivia Ting twice: at the E.A.A.T exhibition and later to reflect on the experience of the CripTech Incubator