Sound Barrier_
A moving image is a signal that continuosly change in time. More than forms, figures and volumes, it is made of dimensions, frequencies, intensities.
On a digital medium image and sound share the same substance: electronic coded impulses.
What at a first glance may appear as a simple technical factor, can become an aesthetic hypothesis. In the era of digital technologies we can mention...Sound Barrier_
A moving image is a signal that continuosly change in time. More than forms, figures and volumes, it is made of dimensions, frequencies, intensities.
On a digital medium image and sound share the same substance: electronic coded impulses.
What at a first glance may appear as a simple technical factor, can become an aesthetic hypothesis. In the era of digital technologies we can mention acustic or musical factors of an image not only in a metaphorical way. A new kind of connection is emerging. Now it is possible to create interactions, driven by mathematical rules, between the audible and the visible media in a way that erodes the barrier between the two fields of sound and image. Sound Barrier is the indistinguishable point where image becomes sound and sound becomes image.
A software written in Processing analyzes the moving image frame by frame, extracting some parameters that are subsequently converted in a data stream. Data are translated to a MIDI signal that controls audio software and synthesizers. This process gives the sound a deep sensibility to the variations of the moving image.
Selected movies are analyzed and "played" back . Most of them are from american underground cinema of the '60. The experimental approach of some directors of that period -their approach to cinema as a medium and as a "machine"- deeply influenced the birth of what now we call "new media". The selection is at the same time a homage and a media archaeology research.
A moving image is a signal that continuosly change in time. More than forms, figures and volumes, it is made of dimensions, frequencies, intensities.
On a digital medium image and sound share the same substance: electronic coded impulses.
What at a first glance may appear as a simple technical factor, can become an aesthetic hypothesis. In the era of digital technologies we can mention...Sound Barrier_
A moving image is a signal that continuosly change in time. More than forms, figures and volumes, it is made of dimensions, frequencies, intensities.
On a digital medium image and sound share the same substance: electronic coded impulses.
What at a first glance may appear as a simple technical factor, can become an aesthetic hypothesis. In the era of digital technologies we can mention acustic or musical factors of an image not only in a metaphorical way. A new kind of connection is emerging. Now it is possible to create interactions, driven by mathematical rules, between the audible and the visible media in a way that erodes the barrier between the two fields of sound and image. Sound Barrier is the indistinguishable point where image becomes sound and sound becomes image.
A software written in Processing analyzes the moving image frame by frame, extracting some parameters that are subsequently converted in a data stream. Data are translated to a MIDI signal that controls audio software and synthesizers. This process gives the sound a deep sensibility to the variations of the moving image.
Selected movies are analyzed and "played" back . Most of them are from american underground cinema of the '60. The experimental approach of some directors of that period -their approach to cinema as a medium and as a "machine"- deeply influenced the birth of what now we call "new media". The selection is at the same time a homage and a media archaeology research.
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