about the soundforms

These sound compositions are created with glass in mind. They are designed as a representation of what I imagine to be white light passing through the ‘liquid’ of each glass form — an interaction of waves through waves. The resulting color spectrum that comes out the other side 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 visible light spectrum, like magenta.

Each composition is titled corresponding to a constituent element in a pigment, its reflective ‘color’ serving as an analogue to the refractive 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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