LIGHT CYCLES (excerpts) 1999

Video: Joel Cadman
Music: Gordon Green
This video clip is a 6 minute excerpt from a 50 minute long video/music/dance performance entitled "LightCycles". "LightCycles" was a collaboration with video artist Joel Cadman, composer Gordon Green and choreographer Doug Merrifield which was premiered in January 1999 at the Ohio Theater in SoHo New York City.

The video feedback imagery became the inspiration for the music composed by Green and the video/music combination became the inspiration for Merrifield's choreography.
Here are links to Green's and Merrifield's websites:
http://www.gordongreen.com/
http://www.unibuddy-shapeshifter.com/

The imagery was created via the technical video-graphic phenomena known as "video feedback" which spontaneously creates visual patterns by pointing a video camera at a monitor while it is out-putting the camera's imagery. This process can generate detailed, complex geometric forms which have structures that parallel forms in nature such as snowflakes, flowers, spirals, clouds, etc. Such feedback imagery has formed the basis for the majority of video explorations created for the television series.

One of the main goals of these works is to induce a meditative, trance-like calm in the person viewing them. The project was developed to function as a counter-point to the trend in television and video which has moved in the direction of evermore frenetic and disjointed energy.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Joel Cadman
• LightCycles
• Gordon Green
• video feedback
• Doug Merrifield

[videofeedback]

@Dreamsender Thanks, Lynn! It was quite beautiful with the dance as well, you're right. I hope all is well.

[Dreamsender]

Finally got a chance to catch up...wonderful synchronization here...and hypnotic feedback imagery.

Well done to all three of you, though one cannot see the choreography; I'm sure it was just as tight

and fascinating!

[videofeedback]

@ChemicalComedown Thanks much!

[ChemicalComedown]

Absolutely amazing work !!! ;D