Re: [-empyre-] boundaries, or not

["Stasisfield.com" <john@stasisfield.com>]

I'm sorry to have fallen so far behind...I'm trying to play catch-up 
today. I wanted to comment on something that fizzion brought up 
yesterday:


> I am curious about the interpretation/expression aspect of audio visual
> artwork. What comes first, is it simultaneous, is one medium favoured over
> another, does one medium provoke expression in another, can one
> express/compose simultaneously in audio and visual modes etc. Film and video
> comes to mind here.


This process has been blurring for me recently. As I begin thinking 
about visual and sonic projects simultaneously, ideas in both media 
have been happening simultaneously at times, but most often one 
directly influences the other.

For example, the idea for the audible still-life project came to me 
conceptually first, thinking about staple projects in visual art and 
somehow applying them to a sonic context. Still-life setups seemed 
the most logical to me, as the artists involved could choose objects 
which made sound...it seemed a fairly simplistic idea to me, and 
would allow the artists involved to think about visual and sonic 
aspects of their piece in a nearly simultaneous way.

In creating my own piece for the exhibition and catalog, the image of 
three beakers arranged in a triangular relationship and filled with 
water came to me at the same time as I thought of dripping water on 
sand to make a bass-toned thumping noise. The other objects came soon 
after (I originally planned to use a hot pan with cooking oil in it, 
but decided against it for practical purposes -- ie, i didn't want to 
clean up the mess! -- and then the pop-rocks came last, as I wanted 
something that would make a high-pitched whine and crackle).



> The natural world exists on many different sensory planes, all integrated
> for/by our senses. Technology allows us to listen to the stars and to the
> sounds of electrons. So many possibilities, so many stories to tell.


I couldn't agree with this more.

> >

john kannenberg

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