Blind Study (excerpt 2)

My work in audiovisual synaesthesia makes use of a formal language that is simultaneously both visual and acoustic. This differs from the traditional approach to visual music, in which abstract imagery is inspired or motivated by the (typically musical) soundtrack. This study takes as its starting material a photograph of the window blinds in my office in Chicago's South Loop. Every video image is a potential sonograph, and the built environment is a natural source for sonographic explorations due to the high incidence of repetition. The horizontal striations of the window blinds are reminiscent of spectrographic representations of sound. This work explores a sound palette created by mapping video effects and processing directly into the sound domain through various acoustic "windows" (Hamming, Kaiser, von Hann, Sinc, Rectangle) that are part of the common tool set of sound synthesis.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Electroacoustic
• audiovisual
• synthesis
• synaesthesia
• fourier
• sonogram
• spectra
• videoart
• experimentalvideo
• noise
• visualmusi