Bottle Cap Collection Site Iterations

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Spoken Sounds

At this point in the class I started working with Keaton. This allowed us to mix my sounds and visuals with his midi board with its real time sound editing capabilities. I collected the wavelengths of spoken letterforms to compare with the dropped letters.

Typographic Experiment with people

This week I created sentences using my wavelengths. The goal was for my subjects to try to decode the sayings after they had been given what the letter A looked like in my wavelengths. It proved impossible.  

AN APPLE A DAY KEEPS THE DOCTOR AWAY

I LIVE ON A LONELY ISLAND IN THE HEART OF THE CITY

My second test was to give my subjects the wavelength for the letterform C and ask them if they could guess the dropped letterform that they thought would create a wavelength of these qualities. Only two of the participants guessed C, while a majority thought the peaks related points on the letter.

Expanded letterforms

After looking at the collection of sounds I recorded for each letterform, I started to take note of the generalities that occurred within each letter group. The generalities usually occurred in the peaks and patterns of the wave lengths. Using these generalities I picked out best fit wavelengths to stand for the group.

New Bottle Cap Sorting Methods

Brown bottles vs Clear bottles

Straight bottle caps vs bent bottle caps

In order of my favorites. Left to Right