Born of Sound: Transforming Sound into Art [Sponsored Content]
Brought to you by Intel.
Released on 02/03/2014
For us art has to be really special.
It allows people to really be creative
on their own level.
We're giving people a service to show
things that are very meaningful to themselves.
My name is Ashik Mohan.
My name is Janelle Mohan.
And we are Born Of Sound.
We originally met, actually, in kindergarten.
But we've know each other really from high school.
So, Ashik is a musician as well as an engineer.
We were looking at that static wave form
that you see when you're doing audio recording
and really started asking the question,
what does sound look like?
What does it look like if I could really see it.
That kind of started us on this journey.
It's not static.
It's constantly moving.
It's at once chaotic
and we looked at nature and we said,
What in nature is doing that?
One of the main areas we looked at were fluid dynamics
and how does water move?
We said, let's take sound,
let's take that energy that sound creates
and let's put it through that process
and see what it looks like.
We started the process about two and a half
to three years ago, now, out of curiosesity.
It wasn't until we were actually pregnant
that we decided we wanted to see our daughter's heartbeat.
When we created that sound-form we showed our friends
and they were like, Oh, my goodness.
I want my daughter's heartbeat.
I want to see my wedding song.
I want to see my dog's bark.
It was then that we really realized
that once people see it and they wrap their minds
around the fact that I can see my sound
it blows them away because the options
are really endless.
You can really create this meaningful, personal artwork
from any sound that can be recorded.
We realized to make it into a really polished piece,
something that was very artistic,
we really needed help from someone who's business,
you know, that's what they do.
The Intel processors have actually
completely, for us, opened the doors
for our business.
We have the flexibility of the Intel two in one PC
to be mobiles between our home as well as our studio.
Even sitting outside having a cup of coffee,
still able to answer emails or work
on some social media aspects.
Their processors allow us to
take these enormous files of audio
that we get from all around the world,
in different languages and different formats,
and create beautiful sound-forms.
By allowing us to provide these deeply personal
and meaningful custom artworks.
We had a soldier who was overseas who contacted us
about creating a special sound-form gift
for his wife for Christmas.
He wanted to create something for her
where she could feel him with her
and something that she could look at
on the wall and know that he loved her
and cared for her and was thinking of her constantly.
[Ashik] One thing we'd love to do, going forward,
is do a further exploration
into the actual sound waves themselves.
So, maybe 3D print an actual sound wave.
We're actually working on that.
Another thing that we're looking at doing
is working with other organizations
specifically for those who are hearing impaired.
There's something about our artwork
where you can see something that you can't hear.
It's just a way to being a sense to someone
that may be missing so that they can experience
and still have that deep connection to that artwork.
But also to that person who's giving
that message to them,
giving them that moment.
Intel really powers our processes.
What we feel are absolutely spectacular pieces of artwork
that you're gonna be proud of
to pass on to generations.
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