Five Ideas About the Relation of Sight and Sound / Virgil Moorefield  

   Robert Alexander & Devin Kerr, techno-artistic contributors            

   excerpts from the premiere at the Duderstadt Center, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2008.

                         
 

river of color (4:00, 56.5MB)  the piano sounds we make are transformed into a 7.1 surround field of processed sound. the video wave (70' x 10') is listening to the sound and at times reacting to what it hears.

     grainyFilm (homage to glenn branca)(6:13, 147MB)  when we stop video, we usually see a still image. but when we stop recorded sound, we get silence. strange-- shouldn't there be a permanence of sound as well as a permanence of vision? would that be like stopping time?  
   

reverb interlude (1:02, 28MB) translates the concept of reverberation into
a visual analogue, and links sonic and visual reverberance. like other elements of the piece, tries to see beyond the conventional color- and shape-based links made between sight and sound.

feedback interlude (0:50, 38.8MB) i play with two familiar meanings of "feedback" and seek to link them in a new way.

  
   

trio (5:15, 91.8MB) this idea explores the intuitively transparent, but technologically demanding notion of linking the production of sound directly to the production of a visual. as usual, no movies are used here; everything is triggered by live sound, calculated into a video matrix, and projected in real time.