How long can you endure in this room?

Sound art /// designed to be played in our group collaboration installation art at MSA university. 

image: Wellcome Library, London

Line - Sound Art for Installation

Inspiration /
The intriguing precise, swift and highly engineered sounds of the cutting plotter immediately captured my attention while I was printing a college assignment. As cliché as this sounds, it was love at first sight. I carefully observed how this machine rapidly yet perfectly accurate drew these lines. Every move it made created a unique and interesting sound. It was a piece of engineered art discovery.

Reflection //
I asked myself for the reason ‘why’ I really liked the sound. I found that these sounds represent and remind me of my unhealthy obsession with perfection. My realization still doesn’t stop me from enjoying and seeking perfection in almost every aspect of my life, but I have to actively fight it. One of the areas it affects is the creation and process of making art. Perfection kills the fluid, unpredictable, messy, spontaneous, child-like-imagination of the process of art. I’m training myself to accept imperfections, after all we’re human. 

Implementation of the Concept ///
The quality of my recorded audio was low and contained undesirable ambient noise, so I started searching online for similar cutting plotter sounds. I’ve listened and watched dozens of videos until I finally found an appealing sound with pure quality. The funny thing is that the video is actually meant for technical demonstration, troubleshooting and testing the Roland DXY-880 cutting plotter.
I cut, arranged and edited the audio line of 9:45 minutes into 1:21 choosing the most varied sounds to be presented.
I choose a doodle I drew which represents my daily effort to step out of the grip of perfection. The doodle shows the struggle between perfect geometry and unpredictable curved, organic lines. 
The struggle continues…

reference: Roland DXY-880 plotter demo_7qP3Z7hw7Ww_youtube

Perfectionism - Sound Art

Guitar // Karim Ragaie 
Cajon - Percussion // Rofy Samuel 
HEADPHONES recommended :)

there you'll find us... during some of those bland & monotonous college days... attempting to spice up the atmosphere. opening a spontaneous conversation without the use of verbal phrases, but rather musical ones. 
30-5-2016

Karim Ragaie & Rofy Samuel College JAM

Persian Dotar // Amr el-Sha'ary 
Guitar // Idris ElSenussi
Cajon & artwork // Rofy Samuel (Roodles)
HEADPHONES recommended :)

13-5-2016 :: Idris & I were working on a college final project when we saw an unfamiliar face walk in with an odd-looking instrument. As he started playing, the sound intrigued us, so we took a break and went over. We borrowed a guitar & cajon and we started musically getting to know each other...

JAMming featuring Persian DOTAR

*HEADPHONES Recommended* 
Guitar // Karim Ragaie
Djembe // Rofy Samuel (Roodles)

needing a break from working on our Junior Art Projects, we decided to jam in our graphics studio at MSA university. 2/11/2016
I bring the music instruments almost everyday now. It's our natural high.
- Photo by Manar Saad

Soul-Cleansing Jams

الطبلة حرام-El Tabla Haraam - Karim & Rofy's (Original Oriental Jam)

Hosted at Raven's apartment, a group of friends gathered to chill listening to us jam. It was an interesting improvised experiment. This was part of it. 
--Karim Ragaie // Guitar 1
--Ziad Hisham (Z) // Guitar 2
--Rofy Samuel (Roodles) /// Cajon & artwork
--Juan Carlos // Shakers

Egyptian Spaniards (Original Jam) - Ragaie, Ziad & Rofy

infected by Heba's Virus called Zombie Catchers' game, we started jamming to the groove of its soundtrack till we got stopped twice by security for "making music" and of course catching imaginary zombies. 23/11/2016

Guitar / Karim Ragaie
Cajon & Artwork / Rofy Samuel (Roodles)
Djembe / Idris elSenusi
*HEADPHONES Recommended :)

BUSTEDx2! (College Jam)

for the love of subconscious Doodling & Music!

Rofy Samuel Rozfy

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