Approach

When I went through the examples provided on the course website last Thursday (Oct. 13th), I decided to create something for the starting drumroll as my mind was stuck on the parade performance that the band going to have on Saturday (Oct. 20th). Since I don’t have access or any technique to create some model or sculpture from wood, I tried to find a representation that is easy to be carried out with paper or cardboard. Suddenly, the idea that rubbing paper can make noise came to my mind; and as the drumroll is dense and successive, which sounds like chattering of a machine gun, I thought that it should be represented in some form with feelings of flow. Therefore, I planned to imitate the mechanism of turbine and water flow by using two layers of diverging paper stripes that will rub against each other when being rotated (and thus creating sound).

As to the shape of those stripes, I intended to imitate the common sign board of barber shop and create a sense of swirling even when the pattern is static. However, that idea didn’t work out quite well, so I just cut out the similar pattern on the water bottle that I used as a base.