SynecdocheVideo: Wesley Smith |
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DescriptionSynecdoche is a blending of sonic archtecture and spatial music, in which elements in the visual domain are informed by techniques of composition in the acoustic domain, and vice versa. Membranes of multiple individual sound and image transformations, sharing uncertain textures in unstable assemblages, smoothly and dynamically shift between organic and crystalline forms. Visually, the principal forms are generated from geometrically conditioned audio signals, capturing a sense of spatiotemporal fluidity. Sourced videos play across the spatial surfaces, which are in turn reflected by the translucent cubes that traverse it, creating shifting patterns of videographic movement. The processes to generate the audio and their use in performance were likewise inspired by the deep and superficial characteristics of the video. Simple acoustic source samples are granulated algorithmically, and then fed into complex networks of time-based signal processing units. A synecdoche is a conceptual metaphor, a creative aid to sharing meaning, in which a part is spoken of as the whole, or a whole for a part. The notions of perception, interpretation, reflection and expression in the project are inherent in the signal processing: units monitor to the output of each other, and regenerate, resonate with or repeat each other more or less accurately, more or less continuously. |
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BiographiesWesley Smith is a video artist and prgrammer. Currently, he is a PhD candidate at UC Santa Barbara's Media Arts and Technology program, researching the technical and artstic aspects of realtime audiovisual performances and environments. He also works for Cycling '74 on Jitter and has built a substantial set of extensions to Jitter over the past year called xray.jit. He has exhibited and performed in Seattle (USA), California (USA), Baltimore (USA), and Paris (FR). Graham Wakefield is a composer, performer and media artist with a research focus in graphical interfaces for electronic music. He is currently a PhD student of Media Arts and Technology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and holds a Masters in Composition from Goldsmiths College, University of London. His works have been performed and exhibited at many locations in London (UK), Santiago (Chile) and California (USA). |
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