Recent days, I’ve been working with different palettes and ways of working with visuals. The experiments have not been so much about perfecting a reciprocal system, but to start from materials that sound good - almost pop music - and then seeing how much closer I can get to them after putting them through the visual system.
The first work I improvised on 20.04, and it turned out to be a pretty complete performance. The main part of the work involved two oscillators that were slightly modulated but could reliably stabilise the vertical bands. The percussion blurred the image enough to create sort of “pebbles” that would move from right to left. It was good fun.
The second work was an ambient work that I used to develop sense of palette. It was produced without using any visual reference information, but the steady tonality meant that I could experiment with horizontal consistency. I did manage to attempt to pitch shift the entire track with Melodyne to see if I could find a tonality that would stabilise the image completely, but I could not find it. Instead, I spent the time looking at different contrast settings and palettes that would fit the music. The last one I like the best - it looks more like sunrise over water in my opinion.
