‘Seeing Sound’ – Tuesday March 7th 2017
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Photograph or draw your favourite sound
(with bonus points for capturing audio of the sound)

Credit:

Today’s prompt comes from the Digital Cultures Initiative (DCI) at NUI Galway. This a forum intended to bring together all those interested in researching, supporting and creating forms of “digital culture” at NUI Galway. This includes digital arts, humanities and media researchers, information and data science specialists, experts in digital teaching and learning, creative practitioners, archivists, and interested stakeholders from creative, heritage and industrial communities beyond the University.
Follow @dci_nuig on Twitter.

Image credit: “The Scream” by Barney Moss is licensed under CC BY 2.0

How to participate:

Share your interpretation of the DCI’s challenge with us, not forgetting to tag #campuscreate in your post:

If you prefer, draw, photograph, paint, or write your interpretation (not forgetting to tag #campuscreate in your post) and share with us at:

Prompt 1-5 ‘I’ ‘Express your ‘self”
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My eye by orangeacid, on Flickr
“My eye” Image: Flickr (CC BY 2.0) by orangeacid

This week it’s all about Me, Myself, I.

We have a list of ideas for you below to help express your ‘self’. If you can, challenge yourself to try 3 of these throughout the week.

Share your inspiration with us during our final week of CampusCreate.

It’s been great getting to know you all, we hope you enjoyed participating and that you found inspiration in each other’s creativity.

So…..what are you waiting for?….Challenge yourself……..Go Create! 

 

Challenge:  Over the course of the week, take 3 of these ideas. Express your ‘self’

 

 

  Make a portrait of yourself in twenty years. Or in fifty years. Or both
  Write an autobiographical poem or write the chapter titles in your autobiography. Or illustrate your book cover
 Draw something you keep putting off, or something that causes you to procrastinate
  Explore what your space says about you
 Express yourself in art – Use a journal to record your stream of consciousness.  Record your thoughts, draw images that come to your mind
 Bullet your day – (Describe what you do exactly). Can you make art or write a poem from your objective descriptions?
 Take an engaging self portrait of yourself (Not exactly a selfie, show who you are without including yourself, or include only part of your face or body)
 Happy Memories. Can you turn them into something artistic, what were the colours, smells, can you create a colour palette inspired by where you were?
 Lose yourself in your imagination. If your favourite artist, musician, author, film maker, or photographer, commissioned you to create something based on their work, what would you make?
 Have fun with your personal style
 Take a photograph that captures an emotion at the moment of pressing the shutter button, what do you see that connects with that emotion?

 

How to share:
  • Use Twitter, Instagram or Facebook @campuscreate to post your response. Don’t forget to use the hashtag #ispark
  • If you are not on social media, find out how to participate

Prompt 3 ‘Place’ Oh the places you’ll go!
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What’s your favourite line from Dr. Seuss’s book, “Oh, The Places You’ll Go”?

Draw some inspiration, and share it with us

Resources:

Watch the vimeo video above or see an animated version of Dr. Seuss’s book on YouTube here

 

How to share:
  • Use Twitter, Instagram or Facebook @campuscreate to post your response. Don’t forget to use the hashtag #placespark
  • If you are not on social media, find out how to participate

Prompt 3 ‘Sound’ – Soundscape
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Here is a mesmerising video of birds murmuring over Lackagh in Co. Galway, almost two years ago today. Close your eyes and listen to the sounds you hear  – the swish of the birds, the air, a passing tractor, a dog barking. These noises combine to make our soundscapes. What is your soundscape?

 

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Your Challenge: Map the sounds you hear today

Resources to help

How to make a sound map:

a) Find a comfortable spot to sit.
b) Mark an “X ” in the centre of a piece of paper which contains a circle about the same size as a CD . This shows your relative location on the map.
c) Close your eyes and listen for at least one minute. Listen for sounds from animals, birds, people, machinery  and other human activities.
d) Keep listening, but now draw pictures or symbols on the map representing all the sounds you hear, and where they are coming from. It is also possible to reflect the relative distances of the sounds by using the periphery of the page as a scale. Sounds that seem close should be near the ‘X’, whereas distant sounds should be represented on the outside of the page.

Source: http://www.rgs.org/OurWork/Schools/Fieldwork+and+local+learning/Fieldwork+techniques/Fieldwork+technology/Soundscapes.htm

Additional Resources:

Don’t like this hand drawn approach? Keep it digital and draw your map or use a mind mapping tool (MindMeister or Simpleminds)

Want to participate?

Share your response with us online

Post your response to today’s daily prompt to @campuscreate on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, Vine, or Google+ and be sure to include the hashtag #soundspark

Not on social media?

Email or Drop it to us (password=mycreate), and we’ll publish it for you

Prompt 4 ‘Beginnings’ – Begin afresh, afresh, afresh
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New Beginnings

“Begin afresh, afresh, afresh”

Philip Larkin – The Trees

 

Interpret this one whatever way you like. Write, draw, take a photo, whatever. You decide.

Want to participate?

Share your interpretation with us online

Post your response to today’s daily prompt to @campuscreate on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, or Google+ and be sure to include the hashtag #beginspark

Not on social media?

Email or Drop it to us (password=mycreate), and we’ll publish it for you