Trame
TRAME – Sound and Visual Installation
200x170x250cm.
Hardware and software to create and control the sound and visual streaming in real time
Artech
Porto, 7-8 novembre 2008
"Trame" is an Art Installation based on a software built by the author. It is based on sound synthesis processes modifying graphic artworks in real time. The public can partially vary the sound and visual events which come one after the other.
During the installation forty images are projected onto a screen, in four different pictures. Behind them there are four loadspeakers diffusing four sound structures, one for each pictures.
Every sixteen minutes the installation begins again.
Sounds and graphic images produced by the computer can be partially altered by the visitor clicking and dragging the mouse pointer directly on the projection screen.
Every sound structure is produced by four digital oscillators modulating themselves through Ringer Modulation procedures. The same mechanism changes the artwork contents so that they become dynamic, loosing their original static condition.
The system is organized so that the viewer is able to interact with the installation pushing left mouse button and dragging vertically hand-shaped cursor on the lateral parts of each images. In this way he can modify some parameters of the sound and visual textures, in the lenght of his gesture.
Shortly afterwards the built-in automatic installation process resumes its inflexible action revealing how the interaction possibilities are provisional and illusory.
"Trame" idea comes from the author’s thought about the relationship between sound oscillations and artwork shape textures.
So as either a tone or some audio frequencies groups can be modulated by other sounds, changing their initial acoustic condition and developing new spectral forms, the graphic shapes and colors modulated by audio-driven visual oscillations can evolve to new patterns. These look also very different from the originals, both in their inner graphic structures and chromatic appearance.
The installation graphic design was created in close connection to sound synthesis project, taking above all in mind the Johannes Itten’s colors theory.
Another point included in the installation conception has been the relationship between the same installation, seen like a technological art "organism" living of its own life, and the public.
When people try to interact with the installation they discover it follows its own vital rhythm and can only be inhibit for a few moments by the human action.
In this perspective "Trame" could be viewed like a kind of relationship’s metaphor between our imagination and technological art.
"Trame" is a work coming out from the sound and visual connections which are in our mind, in our everyday life, in our efforts to imagine new art possibilities.
At the same time "Trame" wants to propose a specific consideration about our experiences of technological art.
The visitor could develop more consciousness of his technology’s perception when, discovering "Trame" as an artistic system partially dipendent from his active presence, becomes himself a part of the installation.
200x170x250cm.
Hardware and software to create and control the sound and visual streaming in real time
Artech
Porto, 7-8 novembre 2008
"Trame" is an Art Installation based on a software built by the author. It is based on sound synthesis processes modifying graphic artworks in real time. The public can partially vary the sound and visual events which come one after the other.
During the installation forty images are projected onto a screen, in four different pictures. Behind them there are four loadspeakers diffusing four sound structures, one for each pictures.
Every sixteen minutes the installation begins again.
Sounds and graphic images produced by the computer can be partially altered by the visitor clicking and dragging the mouse pointer directly on the projection screen.
Every sound structure is produced by four digital oscillators modulating themselves through Ringer Modulation procedures. The same mechanism changes the artwork contents so that they become dynamic, loosing their original static condition.
The system is organized so that the viewer is able to interact with the installation pushing left mouse button and dragging vertically hand-shaped cursor on the lateral parts of each images. In this way he can modify some parameters of the sound and visual textures, in the lenght of his gesture.
Shortly afterwards the built-in automatic installation process resumes its inflexible action revealing how the interaction possibilities are provisional and illusory.
"Trame" idea comes from the author’s thought about the relationship between sound oscillations and artwork shape textures.
So as either a tone or some audio frequencies groups can be modulated by other sounds, changing their initial acoustic condition and developing new spectral forms, the graphic shapes and colors modulated by audio-driven visual oscillations can evolve to new patterns. These look also very different from the originals, both in their inner graphic structures and chromatic appearance.
The installation graphic design was created in close connection to sound synthesis project, taking above all in mind the Johannes Itten’s colors theory.
Another point included in the installation conception has been the relationship between the same installation, seen like a technological art "organism" living of its own life, and the public.
When people try to interact with the installation they discover it follows its own vital rhythm and can only be inhibit for a few moments by the human action.
In this perspective "Trame" could be viewed like a kind of relationship’s metaphor between our imagination and technological art.
"Trame" is a work coming out from the sound and visual connections which are in our mind, in our everyday life, in our efforts to imagine new art possibilities.
At the same time "Trame" wants to propose a specific consideration about our experiences of technological art.
The visitor could develop more consciousness of his technology’s perception when, discovering "Trame" as an artistic system partially dipendent from his active presence, becomes himself a part of the installation.
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