Bangkok Design Week
Weaving Cityscapes and Sound
Based on the Design Week's theme of 'Urban-nice-zation', this project investigates Bangkok’s cityscape with the intent to weave together a multiplicity of sights and sounds that begin to codify a unique cultural environment. The project examines daily behaviors, patterns and constructed environments that are often overlooked, but play a vital role in the identity of a community. The result is an interpretation of Bangkok using a series of micro-light boards overlaid with fabric to dynamically play graphic patterns and sounds. This project is both a playful decoding of everyday life, and a form of cultural preservation by transcribing the pedestrian moments of the city that are slowly disappearing due to urbanization.
Bangkok Design Week 2023 ︎
Bangkok Design Week 2023 ︎
The sound is designed using four separate stereo track. The four tracks play simultaneously using systematic structures allowing certain sounds to be more present while others are pushed to the background. Overtime, the sounds slowing move in and out of sync allowing for many variations and new compositions to emerge. The intent is to replicate how sounds in the Bangkok urban environment oscillate between calm and chaotic.
The project was collaboration with:
Pornprapha Phatanateacha (Mixing Methods)
Levi Hammett (xLabs)
Naima Almajdobah (MFA Student)
The project was collaboration with:
Pornprapha Phatanateacha (Mixing Methods)
Levi Hammett (xLabs)
Naima Almajdobah (MFA Student)