our project page and a related post on WMMNA

with Nina Wenhart

with markus decker, joachim schnaitter, gerda palmetshofer

.image
everything that the mechanical eye records.
found footage from cctv surveillance cams, traffic cams, earth observation satellites, atm cash machines cams, motion tracking and image analysis. streams from public places and private spheres, by day and night, of human beings, of vehicles, of planets.

.manipulation
the sequence of these videos and the rhythm of their cuts from one scene to the next are triggered by signals in the sequencer’s midi stream, thus not under human control. the compressed, imperfect image contains traces of its history in the form of compression artefacts, out-of-focus, pixelation. the signal becomes the image reality.

.soundtrack
so called architecture-tracks are built from individual frequencies, without any implementation of standard instruments or instrument samples. a abstract from the conventionally track and instrument structures and a analysis of the percussive frequency -scale -modulation … how to build and extract.

Visual performance at Blasthaus Gallery, San Francisco during the Transcinema Festival 99. We modified the unreal game-engine to create an virtual soundscape, audio-”tracks” were a result of the game character’s movement trough 3d-space.