I created this video for Variable 4, an 8-speaker outdoor sound installation which translates weather conditions into musical patterns in real time, created by the masterminds of James Bulley and Daniel Jones. Using meteorological sensors connected to a custom software environment, the weather itself acts as conductor, navigating through a map of 24 specifically-written movements.
Every aspect of the piece, from broad harmonic progressions down to individual notes and timbres, is influenced by changes in the environment: wind speed, rainfall, solar radiation, humidity, tropospheric variance, temperature, and more.
Linking together the sensor data and scored motifs is an array of algorithmic processes drawn from the natural world, modelling phenomena such as tree growth, swarm theory and evolutionary development. The resultant composition is performed over a 24 hour duration through a field of 8 speakers integrated into the landscape.
The installtaion and video were shot in Snape Maltings, Suffolk, UK. 2011.
South African Filmmaker and Photographer Drew Cox
Friday 17 June 2011
Tuesday 14 June 2011
'Between' by Tim Bollinger
A unique short film entitled “Between, directed, written, produced and edited by Tim Bollinger. Cinematography by Daniel Meinl and sound design by Michael Fakesch. It is very intriguing to watch. I love the seawater over a black background. chill
Chris Cunningham at The Roundhouse
Went to see Chris Cunningham's latest exhibition at the Roundhouse in Camden, London last week. This was the first video he played and it went off. A real intense and powerful distruction of the innocence Bit disapointed by the lack of new visual material that followed. Remixing the iconic Rubber Jonny and others, but with this foul little beast of a video he unleashed a multidude of directors and visual artists back to their dark hovels to figure out how he did it? Check it out.
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