Cryptic Nights.

I went to the universal everything & advanced beauty talk last night, it was a showing of the dvd 'advanced beauty' which is an 'ongoing exploration of 18 digital artworks born and influenced by sound, an ever-growing collaboration between programmers, artists, musicians, animators and architects.' And after the showing there was a q&a session with freeform (Simon Pyke) a musician and sound designer and Konx om Pax (Tom Scholefield) who was one of the 18 digital artworks.



Konx om Pax

Advanced Beauty from Konx-om-Pax on Vimeo.

Flight 404

Advanced Beauty Preview, Rework from flight404 on Vimeo.

And zhestkov

My favorite one watch it here

I spent most of the time trying to work out how each of the artists had made their work, a few of them had used processing, which means they wrote the code and let the audio create the visuals like flight 404, it is an organic process. Whereas Konx om pax hand drew his video and is completely and meticulously controlled.
I found he talk quite insightful especially on the topic of mixing audio and sound together. One of the questions is which is easier to put the visual to audio or or audio to visual, the answer was they are just as hard as each other.