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ALA

by squarz

~ ALA ~ was conceived in 2005 as a sequence of audio/video tableaux in which an abstract series of numbers act as flexible basis for the development af the events. the original chain of numbers –mapped onto different acoustic, musical, video levels- have been more and more transposed, stretched, superimposed at different degrees of complexity in order to achieve a renewed meaning of matter and NATURE. Original music for 4 digital audio tracks, entirely written in cSound.

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Across * Risd Museum

by Yan Da

Across* is a real time system that generates lines from anything moving in the space. These lines would fill inside the contours of the moving objects and randomly cross connect other moving objects’ edges, thus constantly constructing and de-constructing a fluid volume of people’s motion and gesture in the space. Across* tends to reveal the invisible aura and “connections” between people and any moving objects in space and time. Just like pouring water into a transparent glass might reveal the volume inside the glass, moving objects are like liquid pouring into the space. Across* senses only the moving and ignores the still, thus filters the moving into an empty background. The volume of the space is visualized in a way of constant flux drifting there, which enhances the floating nature of the motion and gesture in the space. The floating trace will gradually construct and de-construct a fluid sculpture. One of the iterations is applied to the surrounding space of Risd Museum. The video…

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Diego Stocco - Drying Rack

by Diego Stocco

This is from one of my sound design sessions, it's called "Drying Rack". I played a clothes drying rack with a cello bow. I extracted a bunch of tonal noises by playing the different parts of the drying rack with different bow pressures and positions. I was also "tuning" the metallic rods by applying a pressure on certain points, as you would do with a guitar string. The two acoustic guitars work as resonators and amplify the volume and the frequencies. I'm not a professional videomaker, my focus is on sounds and music. I'm actually creating new playable sounds out of objects and customized instruments with innovative recording techniques. I put together this video by using pictures and portions of videos I took while I was recording, then I composed the soundtrack entirely with the sounds created out of this session. I hope you like it! Diego

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MAYA

by Joe Candido

MĀYĀ 
Joe Candido & Andrea Leoni
 6.39 min Dolby Digital (5.1) We have graphically synthesized the concept of dualism in six triptychs, each image representing one of its phases of change. The first image in the above triptychs shows two points that share the same space and seem to be different in term of width, shape and brightness. However, they are essentially the same, showing on the inside a substratum that appears chromatically different in each image. The two points conceptually represent, in terms of dualism, our mental projections - “māyā”, divided and fragmentary, upon which our thought and our society are based. For instance, mind and body, good and evil, being and not-being generate a continuous confusion as well as frustration, while the substratum can be interpreted as a “self-existing” entity, free from any qualification or duality. The second image represents the production and multiplication of the two points that create, in terms of movement, ever more complex superstructures…