Sound / Image
Exploring sonic and audio-visual practice
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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…
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Broken Slide – Into the Mouth of the Butterfly
Gerhard Nierhaus, Institute of Electronic Music and Acoustics, Graz The visual components of this multimedia project consist of movies/photos which are taken with various high magnification macro and microscopic devices from one single broken microscopic slide containing some parts of an insect’s body. It was not the intention to produce realistic imagery, but to photographically explore this single…
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Uriel
Jing Wang, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth Uriel is a collaboration between visual artist Harvey Goldman and composer Jing Wang. Biography Jing Wang, a composer and virtuoso erhu artist, was born in China. Ms. Wang has participated in numerous musical communities, as a composer and a performer of diverse styles of music. Her compositions have been…
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Verbalizing Sculptural Sound Phenomena in Electronic Music and Sound Arts – Towards a Share Perceptual Space (SPS)
Gerriet Krishna Sharma / Angela McArthur, IEM Graz / Queen Mary London This contribution is concerned with questions whether the aesthetics of spatialized electronic music of today take into account the perception of the audience at all and how to find terms that could be helpful for composition and analysis of spatialized sound. We are…
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The creation of The Angst of the String (The Glass String)
Dr Brigid Burke, Independent Artist Chamber Music/instrument building/audio/visual performance is becoming a new field of creative practice and performance. It’s fuelled by the imagery of three dimensional art spaces in contemporary performance culture and is increasingly acceptable and engaging with old art forms and new technologies combined with live digital audio and imagery projection. In…
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Straße
Moritz Schuchmann, HAW Hamburg The abstract experimental film investigates right-wing extremist crime scenes in Germany. The photographic material of street textures and surfaces, which has been shot at three exemplarily selected crime scenes in Rostock, Bottrop and Magdeburg is re-animated digitally and transformed into an immersive visual experience. Schuchmann combines methods of Formalism and Abstract…
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VOID
Andrew Knight-Hill, University of Greenwich Tones and textures intersect sonically and visually to alternately expand and contract our impressions of space, drawing us into an experience of this non-place. The concept of the non-place is dynamic, in symbiotic opposition to that of place. In the same way, noises & tones, light & shadow and textures…