Katie Davies, 3D Sound Prints

in collaboration with Dr Peter Walters
2007

3D Sound Prints is a three-dimensional digital print research project undertaken in collaboration with Dr. Peter Walters, a Research Fellow at The University of the West of England and Bristol Robotics Laboratory.

3D Sound Prints asserts itself as an ambitious research inquiry into the transformation of sound to three-dimensional form. Using a combination of different specialist software the project aims to translate sound into objects whose form is dictated by the “shape” of the sound. The research explores the process of 3D printing and as an initial example has begun to create 3D forms or Sound Prints of the sound made by the printer as it prints. The project is based at The University of the West of England’s 3D print department.

The recorded sound of a 3D printing machine at work was used to generate the shape of a sculpture. The sculpture was subsequently produced by the same machine, so that it literally “made its own sound”.
3D printing by the Centre for Fine Print Research, University of the West of England, Bristol

Sound Print 1, 2008
Plaster powder binder 3D print
18cm x 13.5cm x 13.5cm

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