Acoustic Antiprimadonna

In the early 1960s at Ulm design school, Tomas Maldonado proposed the Antiprimadonna, a basic design exercise with the objective of training designers to produce non-hierarchical visual patters.
The idea was that, after an extensive practice with this task, the designer would be better in letting hierarchies emerge in a controlled way.

Among seven vertical bands of variable width, five can be of different colors, while the remaining two should have different black and white textures. The arrangement of the bands requires that none of them plays the part of the Primadonna.

The acoustic Antiprimadonna exploits by analogy this assignment. The overall composition is a soundscape of sound events and elementary interactions.

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Science & Technology

Tags:

• antiprimadonna
• basic design
• sonification
• maldonado
• ulm
• sound
• physical models