As my Project is based on sound art, I have been looking at other artists who do the same thing. Matthew Plummer-Fernandez produces a variety of work spanning and combining many fields including design, sound, music, engineering, art, illustration, photography, programming, and technology. In this post I am going to look at three different pieces by Fernandez which were created using sound waves.

Sound/Chair

In 2007 he created the ‘Sound/Chair’ which has contours that precisely match sound waves mapped on a 3D graph of volume (height), frequency (depth), and time (width). Fernandez tried 719 different sounds before he found the one that resulted in his ideal chair design. Once the sound was chosen, he made the physical chair out of water-jet-cut polyethylene foam. With this piece the aesthetic of soundwaves becomes the aesthetic of the chair. Officially launched the Sound/Chair sells for $7,280.

3D Graph

Images of the chair:

Sound of light

In 2008 Fernandez created the ‘sound of light. ‘A casing for a fluorescent tube light was made by recording and graphing 1 second of the familiar “hum” sound produced by the light. The sound sculpture is made from 50 layers of laser-cut acrylic, each layer corresponds to 20ms of the recording.

Images:

Sound Tag Sound tagging is a new activity for documenting the sounds of our city. Most large buildings have distinct auditory signatures as a result of vibrations generated by traffic, underground, and wind that resonate through the solid structures. In simpler terms: buildings have voices. This last piece was created by Fernandez in relation to above. Images: