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May 10, 2005

Video Art

Here are some films I made for my Video Art class. They are both based on music. Reich Experiment is based on Steve Reich's technique of rotating parts. In the piece I rotate the audio while keeping the video sequence the same.

Music Study I is based on a very straightforward musical structure. There are twelve sections; each section consists of 16 bars; each bar consists of 4 beats. This project stems from my background in the Genrative Theory of Tonal Music and what I learned in my Mechanics of Aesthetics class. In this video, I am using my body as a way of accessing lower level brain functions. This is based on recent research in Mirror Neurons. Music uses some linguistic brain functions, like prosody processing; here, however, I have swapped these low-level aural mechanisms for our visual/Mirror Neuron system.

Music Study I (20mb .mov)

Reich Experiment (20mb .mov)

Posted by rus200 at May 10, 2005 01:36 AM

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