The goal of this project was to promote sound or silence. I chose to make something that would promote sound and my piece focused around the idea that we are so reliant on our eyes that we sometimes disregard how important our sense of hearing can be. The point of my piece was to deprive the individual experiencing the piece of sound and when they initiated the sound, they wouldn’t be able to clearly locate the source of the sound.
Initially I wanted to make a mask that would be worn by the individual. The sound would be initiate when the person pulled on a wooden piece near the top of the mask and then little things such as beans or buttons would fall down tubes thus causing the sound to occur. Then to restart the piece for the next person to experience, you would insert the wooden piece into the bottom part and flip the entire mask. The little pieces would collect in containers at the top and bottom of the mask so that they wouldn’t fall out.
But the issue that I found with the piece is that it would require too many extra found materials, which would be outside of the restrictions of the project and with all that wood and other material, the piece would be too heavy to be worn. And the idea of not allowing the individual to see the source of sound was too direct because the piece would be literally blocking their sense of sight.
I started to rethink about my project and thought about the idea of not blocking the eyes but instead, confusing the brain. I notices that in our daily lives, when we hear a sound, we instinctively turn our heads to find where the sound came from but in my piece, I wanted to challenge this by not allowing their eyes to tell them the truth and instead letting their ears make their best guess. So I decided to make a piece that would be placed on a table or stand. The piece would have two blocks so that when the individual is standing or sitting in front of it, the blocks would be at their peripheral vision’s line of sight. The individual would then be in front of it and pull two wooden sticks out simultaneously and little things would fall out of both blocks at different times. This would cause the individual to turn their heads back and forth to their left and right sides. But because they won’t able to see the pieces falling down, they would have to use their ears to guess which side of them the pieces are falling at that moment.
To make the piece, I took pieces of wood and drilled holes in partly through them to create a cylindrical hole the pieces could be in but wouldn’t fall out. Then I filled them with pasta and attached them together. I created a stand for the two blocks to sit on and the wooden pieces that would be pulled out had holes in them for the pasta to fall down at certain times. In order for the piece to be restarted, I wanted to drill holes into the blocks and put nails into the stand so that the blocks could flip over but instead I was able to make the blocks spin on their stands so that the blocks wouldn’t have to be removed from the stand to restart. Using a series of nuts, bolts, and washers, the blocks are able to turn.
In the end, all the pieces were attached and are still able to be taken apart which was also a requirement for the project. In order for the individual to experience the piece, they first place themselves in front of it. Then they put their fingers into the holes of the longer wooden sticks coming out fo the blocks. Then slowly, they pull on the two sticks at the same time and the pieces will fall from the top to the bottom. Then after fulling pulling out the wooden sticks, flip the sticks so that the hole for the finger face inwards and then slide the sticks back into the gap between the wooden blocks. Then use the long wooden sticks to flip each of the blocks upside down. Then the piece has turned and it’s ready for the next person to start and experience the piece. 
