Sound / Image
Exploring sonic and audio-visual practice
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Ethnic Diversity in Sites of Cultural Activity
Ryo Ikeshiro, Bath Spa University Stand in front of the webcam to be racially profiled by the computer! Are you more likely to be waving a flag at the Last Night of the Proms or to the unofficial ISIS anthem, or is the gay anthem Go West more your soundtrack? Ethnic Diversity in Sites of […]
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Time-piece
Hye Young Sin, Academy of Media Arts, Cologne, Germany Time-piece is based on a six-meter-long structure of honeycomb paperboard. Dried plants, a stone, needles, erasers, wine corks, a metallic brush and cable-ties are combined with electronic devices. Those small motorized objects make subtle sounds by touching the cardboard in their different ways. Each sonic movement slowly […]
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Communicating Vessel: Portal of Emotion
Christian Groothuizen, University of East London The object is 3D printed from data sourced from a series of field recordings made by the artist. The recordings explore sound’s complex relationship with architecture and the built environment. The work describes both the exploration through making of real objects and a nascent enquiry into ‘Sound Objects’ as […]
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F 18W T8 G13 865
Dawid Liftiner, Academy of Media Arts Cologne Audiovisual Performance // 12 Minutes 10 x Fluorescent tube, Arduino, relays F 18W T8 G13 865 is a highly concentrated audio-visual performance with a self-built instrument. Through a digital interface via software, Arduino and relays, fluorescent tubes are turned on and off controlled by the performer. Only the […]
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Stars and Stripes
Jim Hobbs, University of Greenwich Thirteen years ago, prior to moving to the UK from the States, I received a “Freedom Pack” from my wife’s brother This package contained all sorts of patriotic bumper stickers, badges, fridge magnets, and of course, an American flag. Stars & Stripes is a deconstruction/reconstruction of that flag – mathematically […]
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Hands Feed Roots
Brigid Burke, Independent Artist, Based on the transformation of old buildings and sounds that are deconstructed into sounds and interwoven rhythms that depict a race against time and reaching the finishing line. Computer generated sounds have been mixed with clarinet, glass, traffic and air to create this energetic and pulse driven work. The visuals transport […]
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Accumulator # 4
Jeremy Welsh & Michael Francis Duch, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim This work follows a series with the same title (Accumulator 1,2, 3) etc as well as realizations of works by Pauline Oliveiros, Michael Pisaro, Hanne Darboven, John Cage and others. All of these combined live music for double bass with film/video. Works […]
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Stages
Paul Klooren, Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre It is a short abstract narrative that was made using a mixture of filmed footage and hand-drawn elements that were then animated. All the sounds (except for the song in the middle) originate from a guitar. Biography Paul Klooren born in 1994 in Tallinn, Estonia. Currently studying […]
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Environment Built for Absence (an unofficial/artificial sequel to J.G. Ballard’s “High Rise”)
Tivon Rice, University of Washington Beginning in late 2017, the demolition of the Netherland’s Central Bureau of Statistics office created an extreme type of slow cinema for railway passengers travelling between The Hague and Amsterdam. Over the following year, as the building was methodically deconstructed from the top down, I visited the site each month […]
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Trotters and Boogie Stomp Pink
Stuart Pound, Independent Artist Trotters We trot towards a riddle. Boogie Stomp Pink This boogie dance performed by William & Maeva was downloaded from the internet. Vertical sections taken from each frame are arranged into 24 panels to show pattern and movement across every second of it. First shown at the Ottawa International Animation Festival […]