Garry Hill's Voice Ground

Graphic Equalizer

An interesting concept of Visual Art done by Gary Hill which was held at AUT School of Visual Art.

As I entered the dark room with a huge wall screen in front with a comfortable distance from the screen to sit down and enjoy the sound and visual effects of the work.

I found it very interesting as his work was based on sound and it's movements.

As we always known and heard voice can be heard not seen, but I saw the voice in the movement of the sound, it was well presented with white sand that was poured on the surface of the black speaker, that made an added job by the contrast of both color black and white.

Having said the sound can be only heard, but there are ways the new technology had made it possible by human being able to hear and see the sound at the same time.

For example the graphic equalizer does the same job, they create and paint the the sound.But for me this work of Gary Hill was more unique because it's manual and not digital or graphic.

The movements of the sand was highly sensitive due to the voice control, it was well presented and recognised by the patterns and formation of the movements of the sand.

It's also interesting that the artist included only the hands to be displayed, which gives a more uniqueness to his work.

Hands as the visible part of human body and voice as the invisible part, which makes me think the sensitivity of both senses of touch and hearing.

The work of Gary Hill has inspired me with the idea of making sounds to visual art, which can me used for paintings, posters, Music logos, T-shirts etc...