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Re: [microsound] visual artists / programmers



John Nowak wrote:

I do some video work here and there, although it is mainly subservient to the audio.

if I may branch the question a bit... How many here also consider themselves programmers?

(waves hands about)

I'm actually working at the moment (well, haven't touched the code base for a few months, but wanting to get back into it) that kind of mimics the looping-envelope interface that Live uses to control video. Idea being, to create abstract imagery that is constructed and controlled in a way similar to the way techno (of the Richie Hawtin variety) can be/is constructed and controlled.

I love direct connections between the visual and the aural, in the manner of the more abstract bits of Fantasia - where you'd have lines and shapes dancing to the music in a way that seems to have a direct correspondence. But there seems to be precious little work done around it..

I'm a bit of a sound<->sense of energy synaesthete, rhythms make sense to me as pushing and pulling of forces and bunching up and swirling, especially big fat hip-hop and dub derived rhythms or chunky minimal techno stuff, and a medium-term goal of mine is to realise what I feel in terms of visual imagery. It requires a bit of learning and a lot of time though so I haven't really got round to it yet :)

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f r e y
live music with computers
http://www.frey.co.nz

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