VISUAL STUDY OF SOUND LAYERING
And for Dolby®, it translated into a Visual Study of Sound Layering; an abstract visual representation of sound moving within a space. Relative to creating an audio experience through the mixture of sounds and noise, color can be used in transparent sheets to build up a solid, brilliant hue. By creating an abstract mural populated by flat, geometric forms in an axonometric layout, the work builds into the real scope of sound surrounding it. “I used all of the rectilinear forms in a space and formed them and on top of that added the white transparencies to act as the final filters like in a sound recording,” Matthews explains. To bring the idea to life, he created a vector sketch on the computer then made a rendering to scale in order to translate it to the wall with chalk. “From a rudimentary standpoint, it’s like paint by numbers,” he says. “I have a sort of limited palette, so mixing colors gives me about 20–40 tints overall in order to add all of the depth and shadows.”
