Analysis of the sound of the village of Bewdley, UK in order to draw an activity map based on the sound.
Path measuring point by point, tracking the path, taking note of the coordinates, taking screenshots of each measurement.
Second visit to Bewdley: Going to every spot where I measured in the first path, taking a panoramic picture of the site, recording sound level in that point, taking note of every items that sound all around me.
I made the portrait chart knowing the time I took each measurement and knowing the spot height. The circles had the dB measurement as radius, but dB works exponentially, so I rescaled them with a Grasshopper definition.
Knowing the path and the spots designated, I did the map of Bewdley with the same circles.
In order to add the sources of the sound levels, I divided each circle in six parts with six different possible sources. I did another grasshopper definition that considerer each source as a percentile of the whole level.
This project was published in the 2019 BCU Year Book at School of Design of Birmingham City University.
David Guillén Barrero