Aural Regeneration

• Main Author: Pronchuk, Myrna Lee
• Format: Others
• Published: Digital Archive @ GSU 2012
• Subjects: Sound art; Aural; Regeneration; Mark making; Digital Signal Processing; Hybrid instruments
• Online Access: http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/art_design_theses/118; http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1106&context=art_design_theses

AURAL REGENERATION by MYRNA LEE PRONCHUK Under the Direction of Craig Dongoski ABSTRACT The aim of this thesis is to survey the abstraction of the human experience obscuring the confines between form and expression, sound and visual, experience and imitation. In establishing multiple levels of communication, I began with gathering discarded found objects, which I repurposed through building hybrid musical sculptures. The act of mark making mapped out systems and direction, and escalated into a form of hybrid musical notation. Both forms of hybrids informed each other in its development process. When the hybrid instruments and notation were placed in an environment together with the elements of Digital Signal Processing (DSP), it created a natural progression for performance. The objects required interaction: to be hit, tapped, bowed and plucked, with their sounds processed through DSP, and projected back into the audience, who participated in creating interactivity. In producing mechanical musical instruments, along with mark making, installation and experimental sound recordings, a platform is established allowing for a dialogue between audio and visual elements, and human experience.