ArtCast_video Spring 2008 Week 3
Released 24th April 2008
For the third week of podcasts exploring the moves08 festival theme of the interaction between movement and sound, three videos and one audio piece have been selected. There is a subtlety in the execution of these pieces which crosses the line between calming or contemplative and something more unnerving and sinister.
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In this week's ArtCast_video:
EcoArtTech: Untitled Landscapes for Portable Media players #1 (1 min 44 sec)
Part one in a series of video podcasts which disrupt the portable media player experience by infusing it with classical landscapes, questioning the relationship between technology and culture: Is there a way to imagine the natural environment that is neither romanticized nor a source of exploitable resources to drive an ongoing modernization?
Squeak E. Clean + Dr. WooHoo: Solar (1 min 09 sec)
Standing in front of an imaginary audio/video patch-bay, Dr. Woohoo uses algorithms for color and sound analysis, rewiring the audio characteristics to the visual. The music is from the incredible Squeak E. Clean.
Lynne Williams: CIRCADIAN RHYTHMS air streami (2 min 00 sec)
Screen-based work which explores interactions in the movement of trees and grasses (which are like musical instruments), with altered sounds, informed by the action of the wind which moves the leaves and produces sounds. The sounds were removed from the original video then fitted to the moving images.
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Image: Squeak E Clean + Dr. Woohoo: Solar
