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Re: [microsound] visual artists



I've always been more interested in sound, but I've ended up spending as much time in front of a projector as I do between my headphones these days. The place I'm studying at (small dept. in the University of Washington) is pretty keen on interdisciplinary work, so I would likely be doing work with at least some visual component whether I liked it or not. The last major piece I completed involved some pretty hefty software development and testing to process the video (http://artificia.lly.org/index.php/Scott/Scan) -- I feel like I've had the best results treating video the way one works with sound (at least, in the electronic domain): record stuff, and write/use software to process the hell out of it, until it becomes something else. I've made attempts at doing the "composition" parts of the process on the other end, before it ends up in a computer (or even in a camera), but I have trouble thinking that way. I'm collaboratively working on a dance piece at the moment, and employing some of the same techniques, though the result will be much much different.

It's been extraordinarily tough for me to combine the sound work I do with video, though. I've been working over, scrapping, and restarting a soundtrack to that video piece for months now, and I can't get it right. It's a rare occasion that I see visuals and sound that truly belong together, and contribute something to each other -- it's so easy for one to dominate, or simply follow the other, or both elements to be so closely linked it just evokes a winamp visualization.

- Scott Carver

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