Cry

The visuals in this piece consist of two synthesized OpenGL NURBS surfaces and Mesh objects, one corresponding to the kick drum and the other corresponding to the snare drum. The synthesized objects are cross faded with multiple geometrical shapes, which change each time an amplitude threshold is crossed. This can be seen when the shapes switch places around the screen. A Different drawing primitive has been used for a better aesthetic look, so all the smaller collection of lines are vertices of the same shape.

The music is a quick sampling mash-up, with the drums being taken from the outro of a Meters track and the ambient, background drone created from a sample of church bells I recorded a while ago.

“And we missed the point the whole way along. It was a musical thing and you were supposed to sing, or to dance, whilst the music was being played.”

Structure Interne

Article by Mick Grierson discussing audiovisual composition, as well as his piece ‘Structure Interne’.

Audiovisual Composition

The relationship between sonic and visual material is complex. Essentially, both sonic and visual material yield effects of their own when experienced in isolation. These effects are difficult to discuss in themselves, let alone in combination. Chion states that when combined, new effects are apparent. This makes the process even more complex. Despite this, difficulties regarding the interpretation of audio and visual material do not prevent artists from exploring that material. However, audiovisual composition which exploits structural relationships by its nature rises out of a desire to understand the combined audiovisual effect. This article offers an argument for promoting the interdisciplinary study of audiovisual composition as a metadiscipline in itself that is neither Art/Film studies nor Music/Sonic arts. Read More

Ryat Stills

Ryat Series

A series of videos and still images demonstrating various audio-reactive visual effects, tested using tracks from the album ‘Totem’ by Ryat.

All effects were created using Max/MSP/Jitter, with audio analysis and video processing/synthesis programmed within the same patch and running in real time.

https://mythirdeyeworld.wordpress.com/visual-effects-2/ryat-series/