digital animation
1988
3 min. 3 sec.
quadriphonic
color
software: adriano abbado, bob sabiston, karl sims, barry vercoe
hardware: hewlett & packard bobcat, symbolics 3600, yamaha dx II
this work was part of the 1988 mit M.S. thesis on perceptual correspondences of abstract animation and synthetic sound.
dynamics uses four types of audiovisual correspondences: spatial coincidence, temporal coincidence, volume/brightness, timbre/shape-color.
the original version was projected on a large screen (4 x 3 m.), with speakers located at each corner of the screen in order to provide spatialized sound along both horizontal and vertical axes. this has been possible by synchronizing two stereo digital players with a videotape player.
