7 Days of Sound is a festival organized by sound art label [RHP] CDRs exploring the types of practice which exist between contemporary visual art and experimental music. Lots of performances and events will by taking place during the week, including a discussion from myself outlining theories, ideas and scientific studies related to audiovisual composition.
Check out the Facebook events page for list of participants and more info;
https://www.facebook.com/events/646826805339117/
“‘Oh Well’ is the story of a clumsy native tribesman named Walter, who embarks on a long and arduous journey to collect water from a well. When disaster strikes, it seems that all his efforts have gone to waste- but Walter soon learns that good fortune is just around the corner.”
A brilliant short animation piece from Michael Price, with Foley sound effects recorded and mixed by myself. Featuring in multiple animation competitions, so keep an eye out!
New projection mapping project underway, finished making the physical version of the designed structure. This has been built using card board from cereal boxes … I have so much cereal now;
The visuals will be split between the figure and ground, with audio-reactive visual effects being mapped onto the objects in the foreground and pre-composed textures and effects in the background. One video is going to be split into 4 x 4 grid, creating sixteen sections that will be mapped to the front two faces of the cubes. The second video will be split in two and layered behind the objects.
The audio for this piece will be ‘Yesterday, Tomorrow, Today’ by Ital Tek, check it out below;
New piece coming soon!
Final project for Sound and Visual Media module. Various methods and techniques were employed to create each sound, ranging from fighting meat, sneaking into Irish bars and bursting balloons.
All original audio, including Foley sounds, sound effects and music. All audio recorded, produced and mixed by myself.
Original music written, produced and mixed for ‘The Money Tree’, an animation project by Staffordshire University students.
Datteri and Howard’s study exploring the relationship between colour and pitch, proposing an inverse correlation between the wavelengths of light and sound.
This piece has been created by using computer generated rhythms and projection mapping to imply motion onto a solid shape.
Each audio sample is linked to a specific face on the cube, and triggers the visual effect each time the computer randomly chooses to play that audio sample.
The audio consists of six individual samples and one pre-recorded audio track, which was generated using the same random method but is not running in real-time. This track controls the width of all six faces, resulting in louder amplitudes creating larger, wider faces.
Advancements in computer graphics and programs began a tendency for audiovisual sequences to be composed entirely of abstract geometrical and graphical objects, shapes and figures. The absence of realistic video footage containing natural, relatable visual content, such as human emotion, within these pieces requires a different set of ideas and theories towards the recognition of individual visual objects and events.
Theories regarding the way humans perceive visual objects and shapes were first developed by Max Wertheimer, Kurt Koffka and Wolfgang Koher during the 1920s. This group of German psychologists outlined principles that describe the natural, automatic recognition and categorization of visual elements into unified groups or whole structural entities, and these ideas became what are known as the principles of Gestalt visual perception.
Research article written by Scott D. Lipscomb and Eugene M. Kim studying the correlation of audiovisual attributes:
Current project in-progress. Implying motion to solid shapes. Computer generated rhythms.
Audiovisual piece to be posted soon.
Link to an article that documents the work of Pierre Schaeffer, and describes his ideas that informed an unofficial audiovisual theory. He discusses how music and realistic, natural sounds combine differently with visual events, and also the idea that synchronous auditory and visual events can have the same effect as additive synthesis.
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