I want to make an installation that is sensory based. I liked the idea of manipulating an emotion by presenting a video. My last piece was to make people anxious, but this time i want to make something different.I realised that i need it to continue the theme of point of view to get the full effect of being inside someone's mind, and manipulation.
My first idea is based around Tranquility & the idea of finding a calm place. It would involve different booths where people can go to places & feel calm. It could potentially comment on the busy technology filled lives we lead, and how i am also using the same technologies to make people get away from such things so it shows how much of a hold it has on us.
I will ask people about their ideas of tranquility & go to locations in the UK to find places i can film, potentially point of view, and make a soundscape to match. Also potentially some smells to accompany in the booths, and some form of touch. I want it to feel like a real experience.
Through the quick research into tranquility, i have found a link of manipulation within the idea of tranquility.
"Within tranquillity studies, much of the emphasis has been placed on understanding the role of vision in the perception of natural environments, which is probably not surprising, considering that upon first viewing a scene its configurational coherence can be established with incredible speed. Indeed scene information can be captured in a single glance and the gist of a scene determined in as little as 100ms. The speed of processing of complex natural images was tested by Thorpe et al. using colour photographs of a wide range of animals (mammals, birds, reptiles and fish), in their natural environments, mixed with distracters that included pictures of forests, mountains, lakes, buildings and fruit.
During this experiment, subjects were shown an image for 20ms and asked to determine whether it contained an animal or not. The electrophysiological brain responses obtained in this study showed that a decision could be made within 150ms of the image being seen, indicating the speed at which cognitive visual processing occurs. However, audition, and in particular the individual components that collectively comprise the soundscape, a term coined by Schafer to describe the ever present array of sounds that constitute the sonic environment, also significantly inform the various schemata used to characterise differing landscape types.
This interpretation is supported by the auditory reaction times, which are 50 to 60ms faster than that of the visual modality. It is also known that sound can alter visual perception. and that under certain conditions areas of the brain involved in processing auditory information can be activated in response to visual stimuli.
Research conducted by Pheasant has shown that when individuals make tranquillity assessments based on a uni-modal auditory or visual sensory input, they characterise the environment by drawing upon a number of key landscape and soundscape characteristics. For example, when making assessments in response to visual-only stimuli the percentage of water, flora and geological features present within a scene, positively influence how tranquil a location is perceived to be.
Likewise when responding to uni-modal auditory stimuli, the perceived loudness of biological sounds positively influences the perception of tranquillity, whilst the perceived loudness of mechanical sounds have a negative effect. However, when presented with bi-modal auditory-visual stimuli the individual soundscape and landscape components alone no longer influenced the perception of tranquillity.
Rather configurational coherence was provided by the percentage of natural and contextual features present within the scene and the equivalent continuous sound pressure level (LAeq)."
It seems that you can manipulate someone's perseptions of what is happening through audio being different to sound. This is making me think of making a project that manipulates the mind & comments also on how there is less and less tranquility in the world. It's all becoming artificial through apps & youtube 'calming' videos.
The Visual Illusion Produced By Sound -
"Within tranquillity studies, much of the emphasis has been placed on understanding the role of vision in the perception of natural environments, which is probably not surprising, considering that upon first viewing a scene its configurational coherence can be established with incredible speed. Indeed scene information can be captured in a single glance and the gist of a scene determined in as little as 100ms. The speed of processing of complex natural images was tested by Thorpe et al. using colour photographs of a wide range of animals (mammals, birds, reptiles and fish), in their natural environments, mixed with distracters that included pictures of forests, mountains, lakes, buildings and fruit.
During this experiment, subjects were shown an image for 20ms and asked to determine whether it contained an animal or not. The electrophysiological brain responses obtained in this study showed that a decision could be made within 150ms of the image being seen, indicating the speed at which cognitive visual processing occurs. However, audition, and in particular the individual components that collectively comprise the soundscape, a term coined by Schafer to describe the ever present array of sounds that constitute the sonic environment, also significantly inform the various schemata used to characterise differing landscape types.
This interpretation is supported by the auditory reaction times, which are 50 to 60ms faster than that of the visual modality. It is also known that sound can alter visual perception. and that under certain conditions areas of the brain involved in processing auditory information can be activated in response to visual stimuli.
Research conducted by Pheasant has shown that when individuals make tranquillity assessments based on a uni-modal auditory or visual sensory input, they characterise the environment by drawing upon a number of key landscape and soundscape characteristics. For example, when making assessments in response to visual-only stimuli the percentage of water, flora and geological features present within a scene, positively influence how tranquil a location is perceived to be.
Likewise when responding to uni-modal auditory stimuli, the perceived loudness of biological sounds positively influences the perception of tranquillity, whilst the perceived loudness of mechanical sounds have a negative effect. However, when presented with bi-modal auditory-visual stimuli the individual soundscape and landscape components alone no longer influenced the perception of tranquillity.
Rather configurational coherence was provided by the percentage of natural and contextual features present within the scene and the equivalent continuous sound pressure level (LAeq)."
It seems that you can manipulate someone's perseptions of what is happening through audio being different to sound. This is making me think of making a project that manipulates the mind & comments also on how there is less and less tranquility in the world. It's all becoming artificial through apps & youtube 'calming' videos.
The Visual Illusion Produced By Sound -
http://www.cns.atr.jp/~kmtn/pdf/ShamsKamitaniCogBrainRes02.pdf
The Importance of Auditory-Visual Interaction in the Construction of
‘Tranquil Space’-
The Importance of Auditory-Visual Interaction in the Construction of
‘Tranquil Space’-
http://www.brad.ac.uk/research/media/centreforsustainableenvironments/Robs-Environmental-Psychology-Paper.pdf
Visual Capture -
Visual Capture -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_capture
"Visual capture is a phenomenon in human perception where people tend to rely most heavily on visual images and the things they see dominate their understanding of a scene. If something feels inconsistent or does not make sense, the brain may unconsciously smooth it out, relying on visual capture to decide how to interpret the information in a way that will feel logical. " http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-visual-capture.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McGurk_effect
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4091305/
The McGurk effect is a phenomenon that demonstrates an interaction between hearing and vision in speech perception. The illusion occurs when the auditory component of one sound is paired with the visual component of another sound, leading to the perception of a third sound. The visual information a person gets from seeing a person speak changes the way they hear the sound."
"Visual capture is a phenomenon in human perception where people tend to rely most heavily on visual images and the things they see dominate their understanding of a scene. If something feels inconsistent or does not make sense, the brain may unconsciously smooth it out, relying on visual capture to decide how to interpret the information in a way that will feel logical. " http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-visual-capture.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McGurk_effect
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4091305/
The McGurk effect is a phenomenon that demonstrates an interaction between hearing and vision in speech perception. The illusion occurs when the auditory component of one sound is paired with the visual component of another sound, leading to the perception of a third sound. The visual information a person gets from seeing a person speak changes the way they hear the sound."
Tranquil Places To Visit -
http://now-here-this.timeout.com/2014/04/04/18-tranquil-places-in-england-to-rest-and-recharge/
foley is the showing of movement with re-recorded sounds over the top so people do not percieve the sounds to be wrong.
