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statements current work and ambitions for the future: ‘My long term interest has been to create and solve problems encountered in the visualization of music as an abstract phenomenon. This self-authored system for translating musical compositions into visual performance involves the interaction of multiple layers of information in a complex way. I have been developing and using an almost living, always expanding system for the specific purpose of making visual the structure of a variety of music.’ on the creative use of new technology: ‘Today's computers, being the most agile of cut-and-paste collaging tools, are creating new language forms from this process alone … the computer is also an ideal tool for fusing elements together because of its ability to create mathematical correspondences between, say, visual and audial data. But this brings to the fore a very real danger … the associations made across media may ultimately seem somewhat arbitrary - the connections need to have a symbolic component (or else) there is little flow of meaning. As the new tools become easier to handle, profundity becomes an ever-greater challenge.’
from: Jack Ox, ‘Synesthetic Fusion in the Digital Age’
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‘The art works which have emerged from this process have embodied principles of Intermedia as defined by Dick Higgins, the late avant-garde theorist and Fluxus artist. Intermedia is a completely different concept from multimedia, although it can be included in a multimedia environment. While with multimedia, content / information is presented in more than one medium simultaneously, Intermedia is a combinatory structure of syntactical elements which come from more than one medium but are combined into one.’ read the entire document A Complex System for the Visualization of Music on the artist's own website |
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