Luna Series #3: Sinus Aestum
computer-realized video and sound (2009)
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"This is utterly phenomenal and without doubt one of the most elegant unifications of light and music I have so far had the pleasure to experience."
— Chamber Music Today
Sinus Aestum (Bay of Billows) is a dark lunar plain articulated by threads of white dust, like tips of flowing and silent waves. Drawing from this image, the sound and image composition Sinus Aestum presents one sound-synthesis process and nearly 12,000 individual points, which are continually transformed and warped, restrained and released, without cuts, to form compound, multi-dimensional waves of activity — moving through unstable states between plateaus of pitch and noise. Mathematical processes are transformed into a contemplation of the continual ebb and flow of human experience.
Technical Details
I produced the sound for Sinus Aestum using a SuperCollider implementation of routines involving a modulated feedback system. I created control processes in MAX/MSP to run the parameters of the feedback synthesis. I created the visual material with a custom plug-in for Apple’s Motion 2 video effects software.
Presentation Details
Duration: 8 minutes 30 seconds
Video: This work was authored in high-definition video 720p (1280 x 720), and it relies heavily on the high color and pixel resolution of HD. It can be presented using Quicktime Pro 7.0 or better on a Mac G5 Dual 1.8 Ghz processor or faster. Alternative versions are available for G4 playback or (as a last resort!) standard DVD playback (PAL or NTSC).
Sound: Stereo or Quad. PCM on Quicktime versions, Dolby Digital on DVD
Honours
- Finalist: Best of the Fest — Red Stick International Animation Festival 2010, Baton Rouge, USA
Selected Presentations
- Touring Shows
- Cine Trans Europe
2009
- December, 2009 - Amsterdam Film eXperience, Smart Cinema, Amsterdam, Netherlands
- April, 2010 - European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück, Germany
- April, 2010 - Festival international Signes de Nuit, Paris, France
- November, 2010 - Alternativa Independent Film Festival, Barcelona, Spain
- Cine Trans Europe
2009
- Online
- Instant Cinema (Center for Visual Music channel), Netherlands
- Broadcasts
- September, 2010 - Phase 3 Video.Kunst.Zeit, BR-Alpha, Bayersicher Rundfunk, Germany
- Screenings
- February, 2011 - Cinesonika Festival, Vancouver, Canada
- November, 2011 - Punto y Raya Festival, Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
- November, 2011 - XVIII Festival Punto de Encuentro: Synchresis, Valencia, Spain
- November, 2011 - Aural Architectures, Stony Brook University, New York, USA
- November, 2011 - Sacramento Festival of New American Music, Sacramento City College, California, USA
- November, 2011 - SCREAM Festival 2011: Sounding Images, Roy and Edna Disney/Calarts Theatre, Los Angeles, USA
- October, 2011 - MusicaAcoustica: Virtual World, Central Conservatory of Music, Beijing, China
- October, 2011 - Visiones Sonoras, CNMAS, Unidad Académica Cultural de la UNAM, Mexico
- September, 2011 - Solo show, Oberlin Conservatory, Oberlin, Ohio, USA
- August, 2011 - 404 Festival, Rosario, Argentina
- August, 2011 - Understanding Visual Music Conference, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
- August, 2011 - International Computer Music Conference, Huddersfield, UK
- May, 2011 - Raflost Festival, Iceland
- May, 2011 - Stanford University (curated by Denis Miller), USA
- April, 2011 - Conservatorio di Musica Santa Cecilia, Rome, Italy
- March, 2011 - Red Note New Music Festival, Illinois State University, USA
- December, 2010 - Madatac, Madrid, Spain
- December, 2010 - Current Trends, Kansas City Electroacoustic and Arts Alliance, Kansas City, Missouri, USA
- November, 2010 - Red Stick International Animation Festival, Baton Rouge, USA
- November, 2010 - 3rd Practice Festival, University of Richmond, Virginia, USA
- November, 2010 - University of Aberdeen, UK
- October, 2010 - Virtual Playground, Montana State University, USA
- October, 2010 - In Time group exhibition, Blueprint, London, UK
- October, 2010 - Festival de Arte Digital (FAD), Belo Horizonte, Brazil
- October, 2010 - Big Screen Project, New York City, USA
- October, 2010 - Virtual Playground, Montana State University, USA
- September, 2010 - Spark Festival of Electronic Music and Arts, University of Minnesota, USA
- August, 2010 - Abstracta Cinema, Rome, Italy
- July, 2010 - Tenderpix Experimental, Tenderpixel Gallery, London, UK
- May, 2010 - Festival International de l'Image, Paris Diderot University, Paris, France
- May, 2010 - Festival International de l'Image, Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3, Paris, France
- May, 2010 - Electroacoustic Music Research and Applications Laboratory, Ionian University, Greece
- June, 2010 - X’ian Digital Art Weeks, Xian Academy of the Arts, X'ian, China
- May, 2010 - Athens Video Festival, Greece
- February, 2010 - Soundings: Syncraesthesia, University of Edinburgh, UK
- January, 2010 - Happening Festival, University of Calgary, Canada
- November, 2009 - Fluid New Media Laboratory Festival, Queens Museum, New York City, USA
- September, 2009 - Seeing Sound, Bath Spa University, UK
- September, 2009 - Fluid New Media Laboratory Festival, El Museo del Barrio, New York City, USA
- September, 2009 - Sonoimágines Festival Internacional Acusmático y Multimedial, UNLa, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- July, 2009 - FILE Hypersonica, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- June, 2009 - Licht Raum Klang, Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany
- April, 2009 - Solo show, CCRMA, Stanford University, USA
- February, 2009 - Fylkingen, Stockholm, Sweden
- January 2008 - Rotterdam International Film Festival, Netherlands [premiere]