Cooper Stoulil<\/p>\n
Printing the Song of Apollo<\/p>\n
Creation is beautiful. \u00a0A blanket statement that I would argue timeless, or not of time at all. \u00a0So how then can you use a computer to print an instrument that can create something artistic, healing, beautiful, audible?<\/p>\n
Music is healing, notably enough so that the field of music therapy has arisen in the last 100 years, tracing its origins to theories from Plato and Aristotle. \u00a0When looking at depression, studies have shown that playing and hearing music has a direct correlation with ones treatment and recovery. \u00a0A group published in The British Journal of Psychiatry 2011 conducted a study on individual music therapy for depression<\/i> and showed how musical creation can improve the well-being of somebody suffering from depression or anxiety. \u00a0\u201cClients sometimes described their playing experience as cathartic, and this may have led to corrective emotional experiences in further processing. A rather unique property of music therapy is the fact that it includes the opportunity to be active and this seems to be a meaningful dimension for dealing with issues associated with depression\u201d (Erkkil\u00e4 137). \u00a0In essence, by giving an instrument to someone dealing with these problems, you are giving them the ability to heal themselves. \u00a0Not in the way that medication would, where taking pills attacks the problem as a chemical imbalance, but through a much deeper and profound means to the individual, especially since the initial trauma is often emotional in nature. \u00a0\u201cPlaying music with others is just one way of finding happiness. The relationship between the musician and the instrument itself can also blossom into a loving one\u201d (D\u00f6pp 10). \u00a0Hans-J\u00fcrgen D\u00f6pp is a former professor of psychoanalytical interpretation and history of erotic art at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt. \u00a0He has published over 18 books dealing with sexuality in culture and art.<\/p>\n
Art as both an aesthetic and sound are constantly being reinvented. \u00a0Suzi Gablik, in her article The Nature of Beauty in Contemporary Art<\/i>, pitches her views of what it means to be an artist in the modern day and how to live a more artful life. \u00a0Suzi, like many contemporary visionaries, feels that in the past few decades, a greater shift towards \u2018soullessness\u2019 has occurred in art. \u00a0\u201c… in responding compassionately to whatever it [art] touches, it is helping to create a more beautiful world. \u00a0Artists whose work helps to heal our soulless attitudes toward the physical world have my full respect and attention because, for me, beauty is an activity rather than an entity, a consciousness of, and reverence for, the beauty of the world\u201d (Gablik 4). \u00a0Suzi Gablik is the author of The Re-enchantment of Art<\/i> and Has Modernism Failed?<\/i> \u00a0Believing that art\u2019s commitment to social change died in the 80\u2019s. \u00a0She is a visual artist and professor of art history. \u00a0Imagine a world where accessibility to a musical instrument, or a tool to create art, was only a push of a button away. \u00a0Such access would empower anyone looking to explore self-expression and perhaps even sharing beyond that.<\/p>\n
So what is sound? \u00a0A vibration, or the vibration that moves through things. \u00a0\u201cScientists say that sound requires a medium through which to travel. Here the word medium has nothing to do with middle, average, or psychics, but rather refers to some kind of substance, such as air, wood, or water\u201d (Robertson 29). \u00a0In short, sound, being a wave, moves things. \u00a0For that reason alone it is my favorite practice of art. \u00a0To be exposed to the vibrations someone else has crafted and feel their intentions just as you would observe the brush stroke of a Monet. \u00a0Music is not only about listening, it is about feeling. \u00a0Even the act of listening, given anatomy, is the feeling of vibrations. \u00a0That is the kind of power I wish to see in the hands of humanity. \u00a0\u00a0What more beautiful a tool than one we can feel and experience together as both an output and an input. \u00a0Robertson is the author of the Stop Faking it!<\/i> series, designed to be accessible explanations of various types of physics.<\/p>\n
In Stockholm, RickardDahlstrand is using 3D printers to produce music while printing. \u00a0The focus is in the sound, not the product, and he\u2019s managed to produce songs such as Mozart\u2019s Serenade No.3 and Rossini\u2019s William Tell Overture, as well a few other recognized classics. \u00a0I love the approach of making the printer become the instrument while using printing as a bi-product. \u00a0The event was published through a website called arthackday.net<\/i>. \u00a0\u201cArt Hack Day \u2018Hackers as Artists\u2019 is dedicated to cracking open the process of art-making, with special reverence toward open-source technologies.\u201d \u00a0In essence, using technology in a \u2018hacked,\u2019 or unintentional way to create.<\/p>\n
Music is equally as cultural as it is cross cultured. \u00a0Historically, everything can be drawn back to early percussion in the Rift valley. \u00a0How fascinating a world we live in now that what once was separated by cultures, history and geography is now finding its way into iterations and culminations at the artists command. \u00a0This is an exciting time for music and how able through technology people can share ideas and creations. \u00a0Technology are the veins of distribution in which empower us to share, therefore, 3D printing is yet another facet lending itself to ease of creativity through the personal ability to download an instrument. \u00a0An instrument that can heal, which is exponentially more safe and potent than many therapeutic alternatives such as medication. \u00a0Through vibrations, we are connecting with something beautiful in an attempt to save our definition of art. \u00a0It should come as no surprise the immediacy to continue making our world a more beautiful place. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cArt, religion and knowledge are all conditions of Apollo [truth\/healing], in which Dionysian [sensual\/emotional] reality is defended against and channelled at the same time. We should approach the monstrous in life with the help of art \u2013 preferably music. This is what a summary of the book of tragedy could sound like\u201d (D\u00f6pp 89). \u00a0I have no doubt that if someone held a flute that had just been printed, their life would be impacted for the better in a lasting way.<\/p>\n
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