Sound & Visual Boundaries (synop.)

David Hockney, Pearblossom Hwy, 1986

Concept :

Display 4 different scenes in one screen, but the sound from each scene controls the boundaries. The louder sound is, then the bigger a scene becomes. The boundaries are not drawn in straight lines but in curves to get some kind of "organic boundaries" looking image.

Motivations of this idea were from the works of Urs Fischer and David Hockney. They made montage images using different pictures from different angle and perspective. So those images can show us different aspects of a space existing at a certain moment. My idea is to convert these concepts into a video work.

BUT, that would be just stealing someone else's idea using slightly different media. So why don't we let the sound from each scene control the whole image?


Method :


URS FISCHER, A Shovel and a Hole, 2004
http://www.gavinbrown.biz/artists/view/urs-fischer

Well, actually there is not much I can say about method. I'm just considering to use Max Msp or Quartz Composer which I'm not good at. If they can combine 4 different scenes into one image and create the boundaries reacting to the sound, well then...that's it! We must have 4 cameras and mics connected to computer so those programs can control the whole image. Each camera and mic has to be located in different places to have 4 different sources(one camera and one mic make a unit).

Here's the diagram. You don't laugh at my diagram.


A diagram including a picture of my friends...

I'm not sure about displaying screen either. We can just use one projector toward a big screen, or we can connect 24(!!) mini-LCDs with the main computer. But as you know, we are not sure about dividing an image into 24 pieces using just one computer...let's think about that.