Evolution

X-Volutions, a Series of Sound Videos by Arthur Stammet realized in february 2004.
The title "X-Volutions" refers at the same time to a complete five-movement-suite and one of these movement.
1. Evolution [6:22]
2. Volution [2:27]
3. Revolution [3:48]
4. Convolution [5:51]
5. X-Volutions [7:00]
This (last) movement of the suite is a kind of summary of the four preceding ones and represents the whole work. The title "X-Volutions" is a coinage, a neologism dealing with the four first movements of the series. Their titles "Evolution", "Volution", "Revolution" and "Convolution" show my great interest in mathematical and human-social themes and are at the same time a play on similar sounding words and the attempt to illustrate them in an adequate manner.
Even if every movement in this series is an individual piece with its own title, the whole suite (such as the last movement) represents a global view on the possibilities that are offered by a special technique. In order to realize this work, I chose a composition from my repertoire. My choice fell on "Grainy Days, seven cloudy days in the life of sound grains", a suite with seven movements.
This music was, in a next step, visualized with "Winamp", a well known PC Freeware Software Player, which includes an "Advanced Visualization Studio". More or less versions of self made visualizations were created and recorded on video in order to be mounted afterwards because the possibility to get very complicated effects and transitions isn't yet possible in real time, even using powerful processors. The seven-part-suite was condensed into a five-part-suite and several sounds were added to the new result in order to create a soundtrack that differs from the original electro-acoustical work.
The whole work uses computer-generated pictures in the same way that the music was exclusively created on a computer. The most interesting message in this work is the direct interaction between music and the generated animations which are the direct result of the interpreted sounds.
Arthur Stammet, September 20th, 2004

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• videokunst
• art
• video
• animation
• visualization
• expérimental
• film
• d'animation

[rmsolympic1]

this is really interesting art, very meditative and abstract.