Hyde, J (2014) Cloud chamber.
| Item Type: | Composition |
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| Creators: | Hyde, J |
| Abstract: | 'Cloud Chamber' is an audiovisual composition made using the danceroom Spectroscopy software - a physics simulation based on the latest mixed quantum-classical model of our microscopic world. It is a successful collaborative arts/science project which provides an immersive audiovisual environment in which people gain an instinctive understanding of the behaviour of matter and energy at a subatomic level by interaction with the simulation. Having led on the sonification of danceroom Spectroscopy, Hyde became fascinated by the possibilities it offers as an audiovisual ‘molecular music’ instrument. Sidestepping the immersive qualities of the original installation and focusing purely on the interactions between sound, simulation and image opens up a new set of possibilities. Having a fascination with audiovisual relationships Hyde finds the indirect mapping of sound and image here (via a chaotic simulation) fascinatingly organic. 'Cloud Chamber' explores a kind of feedback loop, where sound is controlling the simulation but is itself produced by the simulation. A simple opening with only a handful of particles demonstrates a simple melodic ‘mobile’. As more particles are added and the simulation becomes more complex, chaotic behaviours manifest themselves. These are tantalisingly reminiscent of the forms produced by Cymatics, an equivalent, real-world process – sound vibrating matter. What you see and hear is a single-take capture of the simulation, captured in real time. |
| Official URL: | https://vimeo.com/118517875 |
| Date: | 28 January 2014 |
| Note: | Video available to view at URL above. Screenings: SoundImageSound Festival, University of the Pacific, January 2014. Generative Art Conference, Rome, December 2014. Dias de Música Electroacústica festival, Seia Portugal, January 2015. |
| Divisions: | Bath School of Music and Performing Arts |
| Date Deposited: | 16 Mar 2015 13:09 |
| Last Modified: | 15 Aug 2021 09:39 |
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