| Synchroma - Sonichrome |
The project Synchroma derives imagery entirely from sound, via analog-digital conversion hardware/software whereby each color channel is driven by a separate audio stream: red, green and blue. Extremes of frequency are used, varying from 0.013 to 43,000 Hz, to produce variations in palette, tempo, shape, direction, pattern. Once harvested, the synthesized color fields become the basis for improvisations set to multiple vibrant scores. Among this array of hardware/software, a core device is the 'Synchronator' developed by Gert-Jan Prins and Bas van Koolwijk during a video and audio research residency at Impakt 2006, currently distributed by the Netherlands Media Art Institute. 2010
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| Eros/Ion |
Commissioned by the Electronic Music Foundation for the 2008 Ear to the Earth festival. Premiered at Judson Church in New York City, October 17, 2008.
4 screen projection and 8 channel sound.
sounds:
Traffic
The new music ensemble Nextworks rehearsing
He composer moving a large subwoofer
A cafeteria in Princeton, NJ
Entering elevators
The Serge synthesizer
A pilfered drum track
A drill
The composer playing guitar |
images:
Freight elevator
Surfaces: bricks, paint. rust, graffiti
Cages
M’s back yard
Sky (with clouds)
Men at ease |
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| Spectrum |
Sound and video installation. Exhibited at Diapason, Brooklyn, NY, June 2009.
3 screen video projection and 8 channel sound.
SPECTRUM is an extended installation across both of Diapason's exhibition spaces consisting of three-channel spectrographic video and eight-channel sound (SPECTRUM SUITE), archival prints of spectrographic compositions, and a twelve channel sound work (GLACIER WITH STILLS) with dual-channel video.
The process at the core of SPECTRUM is the visualization of sound through spectrographic analysis, which breaks up a complex wave into its constituent parts and displays them on a 2 or 3 dimensional grid. These analyses and their corresponding sounds form the basis for each complex layered composition.
Spectrum Suite is a dance music installation in 3 parts. The music is “lit” by its own signature: spectrographix. The light is pulsed by its modulation source: amplitude. In 6 parts, 3 of which are sonic and 3 (simultaneous) light projections. Interconnected by wizardry.
"A sound spectrum is a representation of a sound...in terms of the amount of vibration at each individual frequency. It is usually presented as a graph of either power or pressure as a function of frequency." |
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| Live Performances |
Happy New Ears
Live performance with 2 screen projection and 4 channel sound,
Kotrijk, Belgium, September 27 2009.
Q-02
Live performative installation with 2 screen projection and 8 channel sound,
Brussels, September 28 2009. |
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