Sound of Magma Digital Artworks by Midori Yamazaki is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 Bronze A' Design Award in Computer Graphics, 3D Modeling, Texturing, and Rendering Design Competition Category.
BronzeComputer Graphics· 2023
Sound of Magma Digital Artworks
Client: Out of Blue
Bronze A' Design Award Winner in Computer Graphics Category
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About Sound of Magma Digital Artworks
Observation of infrasound generated by natural phenomena is attracting attention In Japan, where natural disasters occur frequently. Infrasound cannot be heard and seen, but infrasound generated by volcanic eruptions, for example, can be transmitted far and can be observed from a safe distance in order to avoid disaster. In collaboration with the Earthquake Research Institute of the University of Tokyo, experimental artworks in which infrasound is visualized and made audible were created to stimulate the sixth sense, the ability to sense nature, which modern humans have lost.
The Recognition
About the Bronze A' Design Award
Sound of Magma Digital Artworks is a Bronze A' Design Award winner, a highly prestigious recognition granted to outstanding designs distinguished by creativity, ingenuity, and astuteness. Bronze winners are amply skillful and strikingly creative artifacts that authenticate the vast experience, imagination, and resourcefulness of their designers. Sound of Magma Digital Artworks is expected to be a highly regarded, admired, and cherished object that is notably professional and innovative. This Bronze A' Design Award-winning design incorporates best practices in art, science, design, and technology, and is excellent for its attention to detail. Sound of Magma Digital Artworks splendidly satisfies needs, touches desires, charms feelings, and appeals to curiosity.
Interviews
Design Interview
What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?
Recreating the sixth sense for sensing changes in nature with technology.
What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?
How to communicate to the audience the sixth sense that allows us to sense changes in nature.
What are your future plans for this award winning design?
To convey to the audience the sixth sense that allows one to detect changes in nature using a different medium.
Behind the Design
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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- In Japan, where natural disasters occur frequently, infrasound (low frequency sound) generated by natural phenomena is attracting attention. It can't be heard by the human ear and can't be seen, but infrasound generated by volcanic eruptions, for example, can be transmitted far and researchers can observe from a safe distance. In collaboration with the Earthquake Research Institute of the University of Tokyo, an experimental work which infrasound is visualized and made audible was created to stimulate the sixth sense, the ability to sense nature, which modern humans have lost.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Video: Width1920pix x Height 1080pix Static image: Width1920pix x Height 1080pix
- Tags
- volcano, nature, science, visualization, sound, digitalart, generativedesign
- Production Technology
- In collaboration with the Earthquake Research Institute of the University of Tokyo, infrasound data measured during the eruption of Mount Yasur volcano Tanna Island, Vanuatu, were made audible and visualized by programmed software.
- Design Challenge
- The creative challenge in this research was to design a form of communication that stimulates what could be called the sixth sense, the function of sensing nature, which modern humans have lost. To this end, we attempted to design the system while understanding the advanced analysis techniques used by researchers at the Earthquake Research Institute of the University of Tokyo on a daily basis.
- Research
- The research question for this work is what can design do for sensory communication of natural events that cannot be seen or heard and aims to communicate an understanding of natural phenomena analyzed by researchers to the general people. In collaboration with the Earthquake Research Institute of the University of Tokyo, the infrasound data generated by volcanic eruptions, which is analyzed by researchers, is visualized and made audible by obtaining feedback from participants. And the artworks were designed to stimulate what could be called the sixth sense, the human sense of nature.
- Inspiration
- Waves of infrasound (low frequency sound) caused by natural events can be transmitted far and researchers can observe them and analyze what is happening from a safe distance. By making these processes visible and audible, the reproduction of the sixth sense could be communicated to audiences.
- Project Duration
- This artwork was launched worldwide, in June 2022. It will be open to the public for a minimum of five years. (It will be extended wherever possible).
- Operation Flow
- These are videos and static images as Digital artworks.
- Image Credits
- Image #1: Image Midori Yamazaki, Shape of volcanic wave, 2022.
Image #2: Image Midori Yamazaki, Shape of volcanic wave, 2022.
Image #3: Image Midori Yamazaki, Shape of volcanic wave, 2022.
Image #4: Image Midori Yamazaki, Shape of volcanic wave, 2022.
Image #5: Image Midori Yamazaki, Shape of volcanic wave, 2022.
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