projection with stereo audio
Friday 18th – Saturday 26th November 2011

Venue: LabCulture MediaLab, 1 Kings Square, Bridport, Dorset DT6 3QE

diplopia is a film I’ve made about traveling with double vision, a condition I’ve had for awhile now. My left eye diverges from the right eye, which means that my brain “sees” double, or what they call ‘diplopia’. As my eyes no longer work together they see different images and my brain cannot comprehend the resulting information. This has led me to see things that aren’t there, resulting in my tripping over and walking into objects.

 In this new work I have continued my interest in creating moving pictures. Painters, photographers, and filmmakers have inspired its making and I have treated these animated landscapes as a simplified drawing. Trying to avoid putting in more than is necessary; I endeavour to balance the identity of the landscape, with the abstraction of the picture frame, reducing and simplifying the colour space.

The soundtrack is constructed from sounds I recorded inside the car; driving along different tarmac textures. I have also used a recording in a lay-by on the A30. These sounds have been mixed and heavily treated.

They received over 47 entries, from across Europe, USA, Asia, and South America, as well as the UK. The panel was looking for work that explored sound based work or visualisations of sound in a variety of innovative ways.

The panel selected nine diverse sound-pieces, including manipulated and recontextualised audio recordings, composed sound and field recordings, all created using a range of media and some complemented with visual elements. These will be available to view online from 15 November.

You can find both ‘Thunder’ and ‘Umm and that was quite nice’ on this blog.

Click on the image below to see / hear this audio generative animation play. This is a live animation, in that every time you view the animation it will be different. It is ‘reading’ the sound and displaying an ever changing series of images into the picture frame. You need JavaScript enabled for this to work.

I have revisited my audio piece UMm that was in last years counterText and created a random generated animation visual to go with the sound.

View ‘umm‘ full screen