Structure Interne
Structure Interne by Mick Grierson, 2003.
DVD (re-issue)
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This piece attempt to highlight the relationship between the structure of an image and the structure of sounds. In the extrapolation of those algorithms, there is an attempt to explore the relationship between the texture of an image and the texture of sounds. The sonic and visual processing is conducted entirely in real time from a small section of live video footage including its continuous sound track. These two elements are processed and cross-synthesised in a number of specific ways throughout the duration of the piece in a relative fashion so as to bring out unique textural aspects. In this way, the work echoes formalist approaches of the electro-acoustic tradition. This connection is amplified through the use of the piano as subject matter. However, it also draws heavily on the work of experimental and avant-garde filmmakers, particularly Stan Brakhage – specifically, the desire to draw out the internal structures and movement from the material in an attempt to echo the experience as it may appear to the unconscious mind or memory. The DVD presentation is a record of a live video performance with Piano, video camera and an Apple G4 computer.
Third World Warhol
Third World Warhol by Mick Grierson, 2003.
DVD-Video (re-issue).
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This piece was first performed as part of the Canterbury festival 2004. It was produced using using Mick\\\'s real-time audiovisual analysis, editing and performance instrument. It draws on themes of audiovisual cutting, disjunct, and re-presentation based on real-time audio and video analysis. The major technological and aesthetic advance is that this instrument allows for a piece of video footage to be played into a computer and analysed in real-time as it is being re-edited. This functionality was initially developed in order that one would be able to re-edit a live television signal as it was being broadcast. In order to achieve this, the software makes use of a ten second delay buffer. The material is analysed during this ten second period. After the analysis, the material is made available to the performer. During this time, analysis of the input stream continues, creating a large and ever increasing palette for the performer. This piece is primarily politically motivated. As such, some of the treatments are an attempt to re-contextualise and reconsider various aspects of media representation. The piece also invites contemplation of the following comments made by Karlheinz Stockhausen (destruction)..jumps out of security, out of the self-evident, of the every day life, this sometimes also happens in art…or it is worthless. (Stockhausen, K 2001)