Re: [microsound] visual artists

[Scott Carver <fscthaw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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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