Thesis 1 Exercise

1. REFLECTIONS
Mind Download
8.29.14

2. FILM CLIP
ONE
PRONK + JACOBY
There’s something unique about Anabelle Ocha’s choregraphy
in this piece. It is contemporary and modern in comparison to
classical ballet, but it’s almost as if you’re seeing the music in
the movements. If something sounds round or sharp, it’s in
the movement. The classical rules are thrown out the window
and we are left with a visceral, captivating and thought-provoking
experience.
These superhuman dancers manage to execute the movements
with such precision and depth that they embody the music.
And you think to yourself: yes, yes of course that dissonant
syncopated hum should absolutely look like that.

3. EXCERPT
EUCLID
300 BC
I’m interested in the visual
representation of abstract and amorphous ideas as well as how design impact behavior. This
is just a mathematical proof but
I’m more interested because it’s
visually appealing and easier to deciper with imagery.

4. MUSIC
LIGETI
ARTIKULATION

5. POLITICS
JG BALLARD
THE AGE OF UNREASON
I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic. A Buick radiator grille is as much a political statement as a Rolls Royce radiator grille, one enshrining a machine aesthetic driven by a populist optimism, the other enshrining a hierarchical and exclusive social order.
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DESIGN TOUCHES EVERYTHING
DESIGN AFFECTS BEHAVIOR
A field about and for people:
it’s revealing about human
nature and society as a whole.
How something is treated people behave within a space depends on its design.

6. INSIGHT
PERSONAL
01
People, particularly highly intelligent, high-functioning individuals are remarkable compensators for handicaps and behavioral anomalies. Drawing from past experience, fiction and other sources, they manage to convince most people around them that they are either fine or completely normal.

7. IN A CITY FULL OF SUITS, DOES THAT
MAKE OUR SOCIAL
CAPITAL LOW?
Does social trust, social
altruism, equality, tolerance, humanitarianism, and civic participation decrease
with the net value of the
individual or city?
INSIGHT
CIVIC
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8. QUESTION
SYNESTHESIA
HEARING LOSS
CAN SOMEONE WHO IS HARD
OF HEARING ENJOY SOUND
AND MUSIC LIKE THE REST
OF THE POPULATION?
Does the answer lie in synesthia? Synesthetes
experience an overlap of senses daily. Could
this phenomenon possibly aid in reimagining
of how people experience and enjoyn music.

9. MY RECENT TRIP TO SPAIN AND PORTUGAL WAS ABSOLUTELY REMARKABLE AND INSPIRING: THE CULTURE, THE ARCHITECTURE, THE PEOPLE.
Not knowing the language pushed me to be creative in communicating and not being able to speak freely engaged me visually and emotionally. I was able to
focus on seeing, hearing, feeling and experiencing everything that the different cities had to offer.

11. FATIMA, PORTUGAL

13. SALAMANCA, SPAIN

14. AVILA, SPAIN

18. SALAMANCA, SPAIN

19. I AM STUDYING SYNESTHESIA AND THE NEURAL UNDERPINNINGS OF
MUSIC AS WELL AS DIFFERENT VISUAL REPRESENTATIONS OF SOUND
SO THAT I CAN DISCOVER HOW SOUND/MUSIC CAN BE ENHANCED
OR REIMAGINED
IN ORDER TO HELP PEOPLE WITH IMPAIRED HEARING
EXPERIENCE THE WORLD WITH REGARD TO SOUND/MUSIC LIKE THEY USED TO OR IN A FULLER BUT DIFFERENT WAY
Music is emotive and physical and science has revealed that it has significant impact on the brain, which is likely why music is such a unique and personal experience. How do I bring that back to someone who has lost or is losing their hearing?
NOTE ON MUSIC