speaker tests

This is the speaker test that I have been doing to get directional sound from a very small concealed speaker. The speaker has been placed in a cardboard tube with a seal placed behind where the speaker is mounted. This will contain the sound within a small area directly beneath where the speaker is hung from the ceiling. This test worked ok but was somewhat flawed by the sound being able to travel through the cardboard. Next step is to place the speaker inside metal tubing again with one end sealed.



I am presenting the sound in this way to create an intimate listening experience for the viewer and it also should help with constraining the sound so that it doesn’t interfere with the peoples work on display next to mine. For explanation on how the sound aspect of the work fits with the video see: http://harvey63.blogspot.com/2005/11/final-show.html

Collecting Footage.

In my continuing search for content to work with for my final show I have come across this guy who has provided an online database of programmes on Northern Irish conflict.

“Peter Heathwood was shot and paralysed in a gun attack on his home in 1979. Since 1981 he has recorded daily television news items, documentary programmes, history programmes, and current affairs programmes, about Northern Ireland for his own private use.

The bulk of the items he has recorded are made up of the daily news reports covering violent events, politics, organisations, and people. This news material is not yet catalogued. However, Peter Heathwood produced a listing of the documentary and current afairs programmes in his collection. Realising that the information contained within this listing would be of interest to people researching the Northern Ireland conflict, Peter Heathwood decided to contribute this listing to the CAIN web site. The listing was first made available in 2001 as simple web pages on the CAIN site (these can still be viewed here). However, it was decided to convert the listing into a searchable database.

Anyone requiring further information on the collection held by Peter Heathwood should contact him directly by email at:
peterheathwood@yahoo.co.uk

To search Peter Heathwood’s collection: http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/heathwood/search.htm

For some time now I have been reflecting on the images that I made in summer 05 along the Northern Irish border (see “Crossing” blog. Wednesday, October 19 2005). Although I am still keen on a number of the images I had the feeling that I wanted to consider a more transformative use of digital photography, a less straight forward approach.

With this in mind I did a trial last week of and idea that I had to photograph 100m of border and compress it into a single metre or photographic space in the form of 100 strip off 100cm x 1cm.

I set off with my folding wooden ruler, digi cam and hiking boots to produce 100 full images for my first test.



I used the ruler to frame a photograph to just include 1 meter along its width and then cut out 1cm wide strips from each file and assembled them to make the 1m x 1m square which I then printed to get an idea of what I thought of the result.








I like the way the lines start to resemble scanning lines and the associated thoughts that I get about scanning and sampling landscapes, and references to surveillance.I intend to make more of these images as I think a richness might emerge through multiples. I also prefer them when viewed on a computer screen because of their luminosity and so they might work better on a light box as opposed to being reflective prints.