Proposal 1

Research Topic: Dripping water sequencer

Theme: Identity and sensors

Background: It is an interactive sound installation. Sound is produced when the water is dripping out of the bottles. The volume of sound, the tone of sound, the speed of the dripping water and etc can be controlled by changing the bottles’ position upside down in some holes that have been created.

Problem Identification: I wonder what did people do to control their anger, reduce their stress and so on in their everyday life, so that they'll feel some kind of sensation.

Aim and Objectives: This interactive sound installation is like some kind of water meditation (water therapy). People can feel so relaxing, calm, peace and harmony when hearing the sound of the dripping water (sound of waterfall, stream, waves, rain drops, garden fountain and so on). Water meditation can reduce mental chatter and promote relaxation.

Facts about water:
- Water cleanses our wounds; washes away our sins, tears bring us release and etc.
- Water washes away our negative thoughts and emotions and restores our state of peacefulness.
- Spiritual belief (baptism and holy waters).
- Central component of some religious.
- Buddhist value:- water symbolizes purity, clarity, and calmness, and reminds us to cleanse our minds and attain the state of purity.

Motivation: In my everyday life, sometimes I don’t know how to let go my stress, my anger and so on. I found out that meditation is the best way. Even some of the motivators have recommended meditation to their patient to reduce their stress.

Ideation and Concept: Sounds will be recorded earlier, and when the water drops on certain sensitive pad, sound will be played according to which sensitive pad that the water drops on.

Review, Analysis and Precedence Studies:

FINE COLLECTION OF CURIOUS SOUND OBJECTS from Georg Reil on Vimeo.

Water Cycle - Experimental Short - HV20 / GH1 from Matt Pringle on Vimeo.

http://matrixsynth.blogspot.com/2009/12/water-drop-sequencer.html
http://www.flickr.com/photos/spyzter/sets/129857/
http://ezinearticles.com/?Water-Meditation&id=4544392
http://vimeo.com/14117758
http://vimeo.com/10173262
http://healing.about.com/od/water/a/water_abbond.htm
http://www.chakrashower.com/
http://www.suite101.com/content/water-meditation-a177304

Design Approach: Bottles and holes will be placed on a bit higher position from the floor so that we can see the dripping water drops on the sensitive pad. Some electronic stuffs, technical parts and programming involve to play the recorded sound.