Audio-visual navigation prototype as a net.art collaboration with Francisca Lizana.
"Descriptions of music regularly depend on concepts of motion and space. But music does not actually move through any kind of space as it commonly described. These concepts arise from the mapping of spatial relations onto the domain of musical experience, and to account for the logic of these cross-domain mappings we must acknowledge the medium whereby these mappings take place - the embodied mind." Arnie Cox, Visiting Assistant Professor, Oberlin College Conservatory of Music USA, submitted to the art-with-the-brain-in-mind newsgroup.
As in everyday life, sound environment in multi-media design acts as a complement to the visual, and vice versa. In this project, the sound environment (represented as musical instruments and melodies) and visual environment (simple line-drawings of objects) complete a certain intended experience for the user-viewer.
The project has been designed using a very simplified graphic style arranged as single line drawings of recognizable elements of natural landscapes; a childlike simplicity apt for ludic navigation. There is no series of yes/no choices to reach a state, instead a gradual approach to the user's preferred landscapes. There is no definitive result, at any moment the experience may change with a gesture.