Editorial / Photography / Analogue / Sound

Object

: something material that may be perceived by the senses

: something that when viewed stirs a particular emotion

: something mental or physical toward which thought, feeling, or action is directed

: a thing that forms an element of or constitutes the subject matter of an investigation or science

System

: a regularly interacting or interdependent group of items forming a unified whole

: a group of interacting bodies under the influence of related forces

: harmonious arrangement or pattern

: a group of devices or artificial objects or an organization forming a network, especially for distributing something or serving a common purpose

Idiom

: an expression in the usage of a language that is peculiar to itself either in having a meaning that cannot be derived from the conjoined meanings of its elements or in its grammatically atypical use of words

: a style or form of artistic expression that is characteristic of an individual, a period or movement, or a medium or instrument

This project explores the conceptual obliteration of the object and its system through their various definitions. As a material, the guitar serves its purpose as a tool for communicating sounds. Accordingly, those harmonies and scales are both a product and secondary materials of this object. With the aid of programs such as a spectrogram, it is possible for these waveforms to be visualized and broken down. Additionally, each of those harmonics is set within a musical system and its dedicated language for better interpretation. However, these traditional arrangement methods delegate a more confined representation of artistic expression. As exemplified by John Cage’s ‘Notation’ archives, composers worldwide gradually departed from those usual depictions and generated a new language and visual idioms for their personal formulations. Correspondingly, this book is meant to examine a similar approach and dismantling of a single instrument with the employment of diverse mediums in both digital and analog fields.