City/City
Audio-visual performance by The Video Band
Impact Snapshot
Cross-disciplinary creative technologist
Project-specific audience and collaborators
Live Performance, Video Art, Audio-Visual, Max/MSP, Quadraphonic Sound, 16mm Film, Live Sensors
Outcomes
- Audio-visual performance by The Video Band
Measured Signals
- Timeline: 2015
- Team members credited: 4
Description
A long-form experimental audio-visual work by The Video Band (C. Jacquline Wood, Ben Sloan, Sam Ferris-Morris, and Justin West) exploring the relationship between urban environments and digital mediation. Performed at the closing of Mini Micro Cinema at People's Liberty on September 3rd, 2015, the piece layers 16mm film projection over digital video, using split-screens and abstract overlays to juxtapose urban textures across 20th and 21st century city life— highways, bridges, security camera footage, and architectural details. The soundtrack builds from field recordings of city noise into dense electronic soundscapes of drones, pulsing synthesizers, and glitchy rhythmic patterns. In the final movement, live sensors translate percussionist Ben Sloan's drumming into projection data, controlling the opacity and brightness of the visuals in real time. Constructed using Max/MSP and Ableton Live with hundreds of audio samples related to city life, the electroacoustic piece was delivered through an immersive quadraphonic audio system surrounding the audience.
Team
- Sam Ferris-Morris
- Ben Sloan
- Justin West
- C. Jacquline Wood
Collaborators
The Video Band, Mini Micro Cinema
Capabilities
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