Maps and Journeys- Group Tutorial 1 and development of ideas.

In this tutorial, I was very interested to hear other peoples ideas about the project, and I was intrigued in the different interpretations everyone had on the brief. For myself, I explained my project ideas as highlighted in my earlier post here,  and Rosie seemed to be interested, but I felt that it needed more development, and so did she. She said that our lecture next Friday with Kathleen Rogers would look more in to the ideas that I had brought up. She also suggested perhaps looking into Geocaching as a starting point for my art work, as I already have a vast knowledge of that subject matter, and so using something as a hobby and turning it into something artistic might be quite interesting. However, I was not sure I wanted to involve my hobby in my work, as I quite like to keep my work and my play separate from each other. Although it is something I can certainly consider. I look briefly into some geocaching art and found some rather creative geocaching pictures made by a series of caches placed precisely to show up on the geocaching map as an image:

However, since looking at this, I have thought of a concept for another idea I could look into. I am very interested in sound design at the moment, having enjoyed my sound work from last year, and now doing the sound workshops for Professional Toolkit this year. So, I thought I could try and figure out a way to turn sound into an image in such a way that I could use it for cartography. I know similar things have been done with Rebeca.org, but I would like to turn sound itself into an image, rather than mapping where sounds have been taken. For example, I stumbled across a business which turns audio files of famous speeches or phrases into prints that you can buy:

I also looked into other experiments with sound as an image, such as a resonance experiment done on youtube:

If I were to follow up with this idea, then I would have to do some serious experimentation on how to achieve this goal, and also what I want to say with the piece. I am also still interested in following up the ideas that I mentioned in my previous post. However, these are my thoughts for the moment, with updates to come.