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My first thought was to flip through the stack of used paper I always have on my work table as I have often done so. Is it the way paper flips or the way it sounds or is it both that makes me feel relax. Pacini-Ketchabaw et al. (2016, p. 31) note that 'we learn to move with the materials and attend to the ways we are moved in response'. Will I feel differently towards other sounds paper can make as I continue to play/move with it.

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Material: Paper  Concept: Movement  Language: Sound  Document: Film

'A lively fullness of experience and affective, sensory, bodied, holistic engagements' (Pacini-Ketchabaw et al. 2016). Looking at my work gives you a moment to experience and share expressions.

I use various actions, including tossing, rolling, pushing, dropping, crushing, tapping and sweeping, to make sounds with paper. I also changed the speed of my movements, such as fast and slow motion and the piece's shape and size. I also added water to it. I want to explore the sound of paper, a product produced from trees, and recreate experiences with my energy. I am inspired by how the movement of trees and the sounds it creates with wind energy invoked a feeling of calmness in me. Forget about how we use paper. This collection investigates the sound of paper with movement without sequence as I continue to discover new learnings and ways. The sound with accompanying action is filmed in black and white to strive to capture a thought or feeling.

My piece attempts to evoke your emotions and uncover how you are affected by this experience.

Reference

Pacini-Ketchabaw, V, Kind, S, & Kocher, LLM 2016, ‘Paper: Movement’, Encounters with Materials in Early Childhood Education, Taylor & Francis Group, London, pp. 30-40.

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Paper Movement and the Artistic Language of Sound

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It is a windy afternoon. I watched the tree in my neighbour's garden moving with the wind and listening to the sound it makes is rather calming. I think about the selection of materials I can choose to explore and I think about paper - a product made from trees.

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Materials being active and participatory prompts questions and generate ideas (Pacini-Ketchabaw et al. 2016). I wondered, how paper would move with the wind? How different form of paper would move with the wind?

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Does paper produce the same sound the tree does when it moves? My curiosity prompted my choosen concept to explore and learn about the sound of paper with movement. According to Pacini-Ketchabaw (2016, p. 13) 'concepts give structure to and shape the investigations with the material'.

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'Images open possibilities for different way of knowing and to express and articulate thought' (Pacini-Ketchabaw et al. 2016, p. 20). I want to film my encounters in one setting and see if the visuals and sounds will provoke more thoughts and feelings.

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I liked the feeling of tearing paper quickly but the sound of it slowly riping makes my hair stand.

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Curious to hear what crushing and opening paper sounds like.

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What about different size paper balls?

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Dropping different paper balls sized sounded like different pebbles if I close my eyes and listen.

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Maybe a bunch of them dropped together?

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The sound of bigger paper balls dropping gives me anxiety. Reminds me of objects being sweeped onto the ground by my kids when they were babies and how I always jump at the sound of it that something might have happened to them.

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At this point I was starting to doubt myself and think they all sounded the same. But maybe they don't because I was having fun rolling and tossing paper around. I became 'participants with the intensities and flows of materials in motion' (Pacini-Ketchabaw et al. 2016, p. 36).

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It is interesting to see how many ways I can use paper to create sound. I was using my energy and the energy around paper to set things in motion. Choosing sound as my artistic language has provoke many thoughts and feelings as I was playing with paper. Thinking about this, I was affected by the experience and not what paper represent as Pacini-Ketchabaw et al. (2016, p. 38) noted. I was thinking with materials and my emotions as I explore paper in other ways then intended.

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Pacini-Ketchabaw, V, Kind, S, & Kocher, LLM 2016, Encounters with Materials in Early Childhood Education, Taylor & Francis Group, London.

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'We are moved by materials and are prompted by the materials' own characteristics and liveliness' (Pacini-Ketchabaw et al. 2016, p. 33). Getting into my play with paper with 'desire to keep things in motion' (Pacini-Ketchabaw et al. 2016, p. 35). I was in motion to discover more about this material and I set off in a series of exploration without sequence.

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Dropping paper balls sounded like pebbles to me and twisting it sounds like bubble wrap popping. It also looked and sounded like a tree branch tapping or scrapping. Perhaps this is what Pacini-Ketchabaw et al. (2016, p. 37) meant about 'paper started to "think in us" as we started to "think through" it. I was surprise with how I related to other objects. The entanglements with others.

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Going back to paper used at the beginning. This series of movement brought emotions from calm to excited to being zen. I really got excited when I was waving it frantically, I didn't want to stop. Then the sweeping sound brought out the calmness in me.

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'Thought creates itself through encounters' (Pacini-Ketchabaw et al. 2016, p. 15). I think about how sensory, the physical sensation and action with materials interconnect to become a vehicle for encounters as I continue to play and make sound with paper.

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Following on the 'alchemic process' (Pacini-Ketchabaw et al. 2016, p. 33) by adding another element to play, what sound will paper produce?

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Is this the sound of a wet octopus slapping the paper?

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Up until now, I have been playing with paper as a whole piece/sheet. I decided to put the papers through a shredder and see what I can make. By engaging with the same subject in a different way results in new perceptions and thoughts through the subjects (Pacini-Ketchabaw et al. 2016).

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I want to feel shredded paper in my hands and play around with it in a different form. There is something plastic about the way it sounds but it feels like grass. Soft and bouncy.

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There is a feeling of satisfaction as I was gathering and ripping the shredded paper. I want to repeat it many times.

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I felt agitated at this point listening to shreaded paper and thought, what if I did the same movement with sheets of paper, will I feel the same.

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Giving shredded paper one last play.