Re: [microsound] Videos and Microsound [the other half of the question]

[john kannenberg <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> a lot of my work right now involves field recording, contact
> mikes, and other "close-up" sound capturing, I've been working with my
> partner Sara Kolster to find its equivalent in video. Sara is way into
> macro photo/videography [like these ice images Eloy posted!] and tends
> to use little or no filters, so the images come accross quite clear, but
> still very abstract and quite related to the sound at the same time. We
> even built some "video granulators" in PDP to go along with my audio
> granulators. That is one of the nice things about using PD [or
> Max/MSP/Jitter, I suppose]--that you can use the same environment to
> create your video patches as your audio patches, so a lot of the
> techniques used on sound can be transferred to video as well.
>
> d.
>
> --
> derek holzer ::: http://www.umatic.nl
> ---Oblique Strategy # 169:
> "Use filters"


Hi Derek,

Yours and Sarah's approach to imagery relating to microsound 
(close-ups/macro photos) is very similar to what my wife and I do for the 
photography on Stasisfield.com, as well as using cropping and composition 
to create abstractions of images that would be otherwise recognizable.

I think finding visual subject matter that "feels quiet" is key to 
illustrating this type of sound, and extreme closeups, as well as photos 
from contemplative perspectives (looking up at or straight at something 
that usually exists near the ground, rather than from above, etc.) seems to 
also work well.

As for how to translate this to moving video, I've done some experiments 
using an old Fisher-Price pixel camera which have turned out nicely. I've 
also experimented with frame-by-frame animation in Photoshop, which is how 
I created the video posted here:

http://www.whistlingpariah.com/visuals/video.html

If I could find a way to create a simple mask in iMovie (I've been too 
preoccupied with other things to really investigate it), I'd love to do 
more videos like this (since this one took me a few weeks to do).

john




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john kannenberg

[ http://www.stasisfield.com ]

[ http://www.whistlingpariah.com ]

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