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Title
The Dividing Line
Inventory
4ch video by Laura Grey
4ch audio by Adrian Knight
4ch audio by Adrian Knight
Year
2009-2010
Duration
∞ (v1) / 25-60’ (v2)
Commission
Publisher
Adrian Knight Music
Premiere
March 4, 2010
Yale University Art Gallery
New Haven, CT (US)
Yale University Art Gallery
New Haven, CT (US)
︎︎︎Detailed Inventory
The audiovisual piece “the dividing line” uses four-channel audio playback along with four large video screens to create a dynamic and experiential space within a space. The completely synthesized audio is reminiscent of both rain and crackling fire. This is superimposed on ambiguious harmonies that perhaps suggest a distant choir humming. The video component consists of shadows cast on a wall, flickering and changing. Each channel is an individual real time capture of this moving light. The four videos differ in their pacing and rhythm but share a similar atmospheric quality. The video and audio channels each run on an independent loop, creating an infinite counterpoint. Together, the sound and video create a unique hypnotic experience of extended duration. Because both the sound and the imagery are not immediately recognizable, but are instantly familiar, the experience is both meditative and jarring. There is a constantly slipping interplay between the real and the abstract.
The work exists in two versions:
v1
Installation of indefinite duration (4ch).v2
Using all four videos.
Performance piece of 25’ (minutes) to 1 hour (quad/stereo).
Using any or all of the four videos.
Audio equipment needed for version 1
computer with maxMSP or maxMSP runtime
audio interface with four discrete outputs
four speakers*
(optional four bus mixer)
Audio equipment needed for version 2
computer with maxMSP ormaxMSP runtime
audio interface with two or four discrete outputs
two or four speakers
(optional two or four bus mixer)
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