Semi-Automated Audio Visual demonstration. June 2010

Transmission: Salmon Run, 2009
Flash animation and custom max/msp A/V construction, melded through an automated Jitter effect sequence

The work is formed by two video feeds. On the left are 3 compound blobs morphing between themselves, struggling for identity. On the right is an “oscilloscope” read representing parametric changes to the performed audio.

Through tempered feedback these Salmon make their seasonal return trip to their place of birth visible to the viewer.

As an artist and as a man I often question my inherent compulsion to both create and procreate. For these fish, the return journey is carnal even as it utilizes an abstraction of the former trip as an experiential manner of intelligence. The thirst for youth is ultimately embedded with a trojan machination of nature. One which reiterates our gathered wit and project within our spawn.

SATURATION #9, Video

Music: “SideBlinder” by Ian Brill, 2008

Made entirely out of White Noise, resampled using the Ableton instrument “Sampler” and audio effect “Beat Repeater”, and various sends.

I used custom software to provide improvised video accompaniment.

This work is the final study of a series inspired by Kurt Hentschläger’s “ZEE” and  the “Machine Improvisation” show at the Wood Street Galleries in Pittsburgh, 2009. 

While my mind is riddled with endless notes, observations and inspiration from these works, I decided to formally cap the series with this engineered ambiguity of minimalism and dramatic expression.

Each creative limitation becomes leverage within another creative dimension. I immersed myself in this project for the first half of 2009, exploring options for self-regulated and decentralized image exploration (as it was magnificently done in “12_Series,” by Telcosystems,) sating a hunger left over from experiencing “ZEE.”

Like most of my generative work, what I am sharing with you now is just an excerpt. It is from a larger performance that has no definitive beginning or end. I am looking forward to Saturation #10.