“Poor” Sound Design – Guitars as a Gateway to Thinking Sonically

In Resonant Fields, Mathias Hartmann and sound designer Mike Wyeld explores music-image relationships through sound, photography, drawing, and text. The transformation of sound into visual space receives particular focus. In the works, sound becomes a visual experience associated with touch, notation, or gesture. The meadow serves as the inspiration for electronic sound; psychedelic, noise, and new wave music inspire visualisations of different aspects of sound, such as noise, distortion and delay. The works pursue the idea of the malleability and materiality of sound, creating textures, rhythms, transparencies, and layers. The publication includes a QR code that links to an EP with audio recordings.