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Re: Looping sound and image
>At 06:23 PM 12/6/03 -0000, you wrote:
> > Hi, I don't know how aware anyone on this list is of
> >installation art practice and so on, but if anyone can refer me to
>similar
> >or related work or literature, or simply share any thoughts about what
>I
> >am trying to, that would be greatly appreciated. Cheers, Peter.
Hi Peter and other peeps.
So sorry to arrive at this party so late, it wasnt for fashion , its just
cos im a busy bee.
Im currantly in my second year of a Ba (hons) Fine Art degree course at
Cumbria institute of the Arts.
Its pretty funny that someone else should bring this up. I have been
meaning
to use this forum to try and collect me thoughts, share and recieve
opinions
about Installation and Phonic art.....looks like this is as good an
oppertunity as any.
This year I have devoted a whole project to Phonic art.
I began by looking at the concepts of time,
bellow is my first Project Outline.
I chose to concentrate my research and practice on the theme of
Fragments
of the past. I began by looking at the ideas, imagery and connotations of
concepts such as “memory”, ”the physical and metaphysical state of being”
and “permanence through repetition”. This project has taken a highly
technological approach to the subject and I have been very influenced by
my
trials of various methods of capturing fragments of time in a
technological
manner. I have come to a conclusion that Technology it the key to
immortality, I aim to investigate this avenue of thought further and
deeper
in the coming weeks.
I have also become very involved with Loops and repetition as a form of
replaying the past or holding a space of time for longer then its normal
transient duration. I have been working extensively to this end using
sound
and video, indeed a major vein of my project now lies in this direction.
The other area of interest that has opened up to me through research and
investigation it that I have become intrigued by the notion that I held at
first about digital technology being the truest form of capture and
therefore the nearest device to recreating a real life phenomena such as
sound or vision. While this still holds true in terms of being the closest
representation, I have found it interesting to look closely at the parts
of
the “digital reflection” or image of a real life event that are the least
true or the most pliable to manipulation. For instance while on one level
a
24bit sound capture is almost “perfect” in its likeness to the original,
the
properties of space, volume and reproducibility are ripe for investigation
and manipulation.
sorry if that was a little long winded.
anyways. basically I have made some Boxes with hidden mics and speakers in
them that can capture the sounds made as a person begings a journey up a
flight of stairs, at the half way point it replays the journey so far
whilst
also capturing what sounds the person is making there, then finally at the
top of the stairs it it playing the sum sound of the whole journey.
I am also using live looping in a reading of a monologue about time. one
person reads whilst I capture fragments and creates rythmic
nonsensically-profound sentences.
the next piece i am to undertake will be a video installation where sounds
and images from two citys (new york and Bangkok) are looped and made to
interact with one another.
At the moment I am on the lookout to mail off list, anyone who has any
expertese it setting up quadrophonic systems where sounds can be
manipulated
to run around a room etc.
anyone out there thinking yer thats me, get in touch.
also all the other artist peeps who have started this thread, I would love
to talk at more legnth, i have MSN if that would be suitable, I also have
images of work ive done etc. mail me..
thanks one and all
Phill Wilson
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