about the soundforms

These sound compositions are created with glassworks in mind. I imagine what white light ‘sounds’ like, passing through the ‘liquid’ of each glass form — an interaction of waves through waves. The resulting spectrum is sometimes intentional, sometimes aleatoric, like the qualities of glass art itself.

The aim is to achieve a harmonic resonance of combined sounds — tones ‘heard’ in the piece that are not explicitly played by an instrument — created by the interference of the soundwaves that are ‘mixed’ in the mind of the listener. The result would be a sonic ‘color’ inferred but not really on the spectrum, like the visual analogue of magenta.

Each composition has a title corresponding to a constituent element in a color pigment, a metaphor for the ‘particle’ qualities of light. soundforms

about the website

Code
This website is hand-coded in PHP, jQuery, HTML5 and CSS3 (with the older, archived parts in HTML4 Transitional).

This portfolio is a place where I practice my scripting. I started with a blank canvas, and built the underlying template and developed the front-end from scratch without frameworks or bootstraps.^[3] No website, however, is an island, and I appreciate the generous spirit of the open source community from whom I have learned much, and without whom this site would not be possible.

In addition, I received a lift from the following contributors:

I developed an infinite load javascript (with some bits for WCAG accessibility) for both vertical and horizontal scrolling (which I also added), all of which was built upon the original work of:
⎋ jQuery-screw

My image enlargements are assisted by:
⎋ Juicebox

The sound file player is built on a wireframe version of:
⎋ jPlayer

Animated background images are powered by:
⎋ Vegas

Tooltip trickery is built upon the work of:
⎋ Osvaldas Valutis

I built an Apache server with the help of docs at:
⎋ Digital Ocean

Aleatorical art
The digital art pieces in the soundforms section of the website are original works I created^[4] for author and psychoanalytic researcher Faith Harkey, who is currently exploring the nature of consciousness and the unconscious aspects of the human imagination. ⎋ The Imaginalia of Faith Harkey

Typography
Set in 100-900 weight:
⎋ Gogh
⎋ Baskerville

Creative Commons
There is a placeholder image in the place where my original work will one day go. The glass work on the homepage is by
⎋ tanakawho

Privacy
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