{"id":2140,"date":"2023-04-01T18:43:22","date_gmt":"2023-04-01T18:43:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sarahmfarmer.com\/?post_type=avada_portfolio&#038;p=2140"},"modified":"2023-04-01T19:38:08","modified_gmt":"2023-04-01T19:38:08","slug":"the-godivarius-lost-and-found","status":"publish","type":"avada_portfolio","link":"https:\/\/sarahmfarmer.com\/index.php\/portfolio-item\/the-godivarius-lost-and-found\/","title":{"rendered":"The Godivarius Lost and Found"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling fusion-no-small-visibility fusion-no-medium-visibility\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-padding-bottom:7%;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-stretch fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:83.2%;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_2 1_2 fusion-flex-column fusion-animated\" style=\"--awb-padding-top:20px;--awb-padding-bottom:20px;--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-border-color:#f1f1f1;--awb-border-top:2px;--awb-border-style:solid;--awb-width-large:50%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:3.84%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:0px;--awb-spacing-left-large:3.84%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\" data-animationType=\"fadeInLeft\" data-animationDuration=\"0.8\" data-animationOffset=\"top-into-view\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-row\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1 caption\"><p>AV presentation<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep\" style=\"align-self: center;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-bottom:15%;width:100%;\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-2 caption\"><p>Made in After Effects, sound recordings made from records played through violin body with contact mic<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep\" style=\"align-self: center;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-bottom:15%;width:100%;\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-title title fusion-title-1 fusion-sep-none fusion-title-text fusion-title-size-two\" style=\"--awb-margin-top:6%;--awb-margin-bottom:6%;--awb-margin-top-small:0px;--awb-margin-right-small:0px;--awb-margin-bottom-small:20px;--awb-margin-left-small:0px;\"><h2 class=\"fusion-title-heading title-heading-left fusion-responsive-typography-calculated\" style=\"margin:0;--fontSize:60;line-height:1.28;\">The Godivarius Lost and Found<\/h2><\/div><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep\" style=\"align-self: center;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-bottom:13%;width:100%;\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-title title fusion-title-2 fusion-sep-none fusion-title-text fusion-title-size-six\" style=\"--awb-text-color:#676767;--awb-margin-bottom:0px;--awb-margin-top-small:0px;--awb-margin-right-small:0px;--awb-margin-bottom-small:20px;--awb-margin-left-small:0px;\"><h6 class=\"fusion-title-heading title-heading-left fusion-responsive-typography-calculated\" style=\"margin:0;--fontSize:16;--minFontSize:16;line-height:1.5;\"><p>2022, Warwick University &#8211; Sampling sounds of the future (Coventry city of culture)<\/p>\n<p>A possible history of a mystery violin found in the Coventry Music Museum, commissioned as part of Warwick University&#8217;s &#8216;Sampling the City&#8217;.<\/p><\/h6><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-1 fusion_builder_column_1_2 1_2 fusion-flex-column fusion-column-inner-bg-wrapper fusion-animated\" style=\"--awb-overflow:hidden;--awb-inner-bg-image:url(&#039;https:\/\/sarahmfarmer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/The-Godivarius-rotated-e1680378208943.jpeg&#039;);--awb-inner-bg-position:center center;--awb-inner-bg-size:cover;--awb-border-radius:0px 0px 0px 100px;--awb-inner-bg-border-radius:0px 0px 0px 100px;--awb-inner-bg-overflow:hidden;--awb-width-large:50%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:3.84%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:0px;--awb-spacing-left-large:3.84%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\" data-animationType=\"zoomIn\" data-animationDuration=\"0.8\" data-animationOffset=\"top-into-view\"><span class=\"fusion-column-inner-bg hover-type-zoomout\"><span class=\"fusion-column-anchor\"><span class=\"fusion-column-inner-bg-image\"><\/span><\/span><\/span><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-center fusion-content-layout-column fusion-empty-column-bg-image fusion-column-has-bg-image\" data-bg-url=\"https:\/\/sarahmfarmer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/The-Godivarius-rotated-e1680378208943.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"fusion-empty-dims-img-placeholder fusion-no-large-visibility\" aria-label=\"The Godivarius\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%27479%27%20height%3D%27481%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%20479%20481%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%27479%27%20height%3D%27481%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div id=\"work\" class=\"fusion-container-anchor\"><div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-2 fusion-flex-container nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-padding-top:2%;--awb-padding-bottom:2%;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:83.2%;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-2 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column fusion-flex-align-self-center\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:20px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:20px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-block\"><div class=\"fusion-video fusion-youtube\" style=\"--awb-max-width:2560px;--awb-max-height:1440px;\"><div class=\"video-shortcode\"><div class=\"fluid-width-video-wrapper\" style=\"padding-top:56.25%;\" ><iframe title=\"YouTube video player 1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hFaydJMA2xE?wmode=transparent&autoplay=0\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1440\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture;\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-3 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:20px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:20px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-3\"><p>Presentation notes &#8211; read by Dr Noortje Marres (Director of Centre for Interdisciplinary\u00a0<wbr \/>Methodologies)\u00a0alongside film showing,<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"gmail_quote\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><strong>Lost and Found<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cAs a sound artist and musician, my first instincts when posed with the question\u00a0\u2018what does the future of Coventry sound like?\u2019 were to consider the environmental<br \/>\nsounds, and the music. As a violinist who performs music from all over the world\u00a0and across time (and the reason I am sadly not here tonight in person) I engage in\u00a0time and space travel on a regular basis. This tool of music, to connect people\u00a0across multiple points in time and space is of great fascination to me, particularly as\u00a0I am also an avid SCI-FI fan, so I chose the musical path.\u00a0For me, and many others, Science-Fiction and fantasy hold great power as a\u00a0language for story telling. A space where the shackles of reality, whether\u00a0environmental, social, physical, political\u2026 can be shed in an instant, re-shaped and\u00a0re-imagined without too much persuasion. However through that process, they also\u00a0cast a different light on the reality we temporarily leave behind, from a different\u00a0perspective; perhaps from a different person, time, or place, or something we\u2019ve\u00a0never even considered could have a perspective.\u00a0This work has marked the start of an ongoing research project attempting to use\u00a0the language of SCI-FI, and the tool of the violin to create narratives that are\u00a0pertinent to our reality, but are also not bound by them and allow us to travel into a\u00a0different space, as we so often do when in the flow of music. There is much future\u00a0scope for the development of this work, particularly in developing a visual language\u00a0that clearly references SCI-FI but also is not inhibited by current visions of it\u2026but\u00a0without a working time machine at present, this is where I am currently. There is an\u00a0awkward \u2018computery-ness\u2019 to this work that is both an intentional reference to the\u00a0issues of rendering live culture through digital means, and also an embraced forced\u00a0outcome owing to the processes and techniques used in making motion graphics\u00a0without high budget animation studios. This is an area I will continue to poke over\u00a0time.<\/p>\n<p>As a project shrouded in the City of Culture agenda and posing the question of &#8216;what does the future of Coventry sound like\u2019, I felt a duty to do my local research; I\u00a0live in Birmingham but have worked in Coventry often. I began by speaking at\u00a0length with Dave Barrett, a local musician, teacher, BBC radio presenter and all\u00a0round living cultural artefact. My thoughts from the start were concerned with how\u00a0living breathing culture is documented on the internet and then, for those who were\u00a0not there at the time, becomes the culture itself. But I am of an age where the\u00a0internet wasn\u2019t always around\u2026I know there are gaps, and that these gaps get\u00a0bigger the further back you go. I felt this was problematic as a research tool and I\u00a0really wanted to talk with someone who was there. Hopefully this work\u00a0communicates issues of \u2018gappiness\u2019 as both problems and sites of new opportunity\u00a0and imagination. This is not a history lesson, although it is constructed with facts.\u00a0Dave\u2019s involvement in Coventry\u2019s musical culture over decades is deep and his\u00a0contributions both as an artist and facilitator are huge. It\u2019s hard to walk down a\u00a0street with him without someone stopping him to chat. He is also very<\/p>\n<p>knowledgeable about a diverse range of music; something of great importance\u00a0when looking into Coventry\u2019s musical heritage, for fear of being consumed in\u00a0another story of 2-tone and current internet echo chambers.\u00a0Amongst other music and places, he pointed me towards Tom Lowry of Planet\u00a0studios, the birthplace of many of the UKs Bhangra albums, and Pete Chambers at\u00a0the Coventry Music Museum. Pete has spent much of his time and energy\u00a0documenting the musical activities of Coventry in his largely self sustained music\u00a0museum on Walsgrave Road and is very proud of the city and it\u2019s contributions to\u00a0music. He is passionate about Coventry and his work, and will generously share\u00a0his time and resources with anyone interested. The museum holds artefacts\u00a0illustrating Coventry\u2019s music from the present day, right back to the \u2018Coventry\u00a0Mystery Plays\u2019 of the 14th century, where the infamous \u2018Coventry Carol\u2019 is found. In\u00a0this cabinet of early music sits a mystery violin; this violin illustrates a story of local\u00a0master luthier Arthur Rowley, maker of \u2018the Godivarius\u2019 violins, of which only 1 of\u00a0100 or so is accounted for. But this violin is also unaccounted for; on loan to the\u00a0museum as a potential candidate for being a \u2018Godivarius\u2019, or maybe something\u00a0else, it\u2019s story is completely unknown, it was lost and found. It\u2019s this violin, these\u00a0people and this place\u2019s story I have tried to intertwine in this work. Ultimately I think\u00a0the future will always sound like a fusion of the past; new fusions and connections\u00a0across genres, places, times, people and technologies; fusions that through their\u00a0decoding will reveal many things about the times, places and people that created\u00a0them\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>[Tonal shift into the work beginning]<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Sarah has developed a software that can analyse the acoustic frequencies stored\u00a0within objects. All matter can transfer sound vibrations, resonant objects such as\u00a0violins especially so. By vibrating the body of the instrument and causing it to\u00a0resonate, the sound wave it produces can then be broken down through fourier\u00a0transformation into it\u2019s constituent parts. These parts are traces of all the vibrations\u00a0that have ever passed through the object; some call them echoes, or ghosts.\u00a0Through separating these parts and analysing them closer we are able to learn\u00a0more about the source of these sounds, whether directly played on the violin or\u00a0indirectly captured through \u2018sympathetic resonance\u2019, a process where an objects\u00a0own resonant frequencies are stimulated by an external matching sound and \u2018join\u00a0in\u2019. On the violin the main resonant frequencies are 196hz, 293.7hz, 440hz and\u00a0659.25hz (G,D,A,E) This advanced multi dimensional fourier analysis allows us to\u00a0look beyond the sound further into the data to reveal some other information\u00a0relating to it\u2019s sources.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Sarah has been performing multiple analyses on this violin and has recorded one of\u00a0her sessions attempting to decode this violin for us.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[Play Video]<\/p>\n<p>A sound walk tracing a sonic journey from the exhibition site to the music museum, augmented by the recordings was enacted. A blog post about the sound walk can be found <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cim.warwick.ac.uk\/2021\/11\/the-godavarius-lost-and-found-a-field-note\/\">here\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2144,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"portfolio_category":[6],"portfolio_skills":[],"portfolio_tags":[],"class_list":["post-2140","avada_portfolio","type-avada_portfolio","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","portfolio_category-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarahmfarmer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/avada_portfolio\/2140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarahmfarmer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/avada_portfolio"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarahmfarmer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/avada_portfolio"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarahmfarmer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarahmfarmer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2140"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/sarahmfarmer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/avada_portfolio\/2140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2151,"href":"https:\/\/sarahmfarmer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/avada_portfolio\/2140\/revisions\/2151"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarahmfarmer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarahmfarmer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"portfolio_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarahmfarmer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio_category?post=2140"},{"taxonomy":"portfolio_skills","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarahmfarmer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio_skills?post=2140"},{"taxonomy":"portfolio_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarahmfarmer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio_tags?post=2140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}