Edwina Ashton - Talking Heads
For the past 20 years, inspired by 4 people:
William Wegman & Delis Geltari (sp?) - both for their humour and immediacy
Italo Calvino - Six Memos For The Next Millennium - fascination with myth
Fischell & Weiss - humour and banaliy and costumes
Ornament Sound Experiments
The 1932 film Ornament Sound Experiments, created by experimental filmmaker Oskar Fischinger, utilized the optical sound track in a very unique way. Using precise graphical icons in place of the usual waveforms in the soundtrack area of the film, a “synthesized,” or “pure” sound, as Fischinger called it, resulted upon playback.
To create this track, Fischinger cut out templates for each design, then photographed them one frame at a time. When played back at 24fps (frames per second), these images create a wide variety of tonal variations – in essence, synthesized sound.
Fischinger was not alone in these sound experiments. Artists like Rudolf Pfenniger experimented with photographing “drawn sound,” and The Whitney Brothers scratched the soundtrack area of the film with various marks also also create sound, though probably not as pleasing to “see” as Fichinger’s “pure” tones.
For more information, please visit www.centerforvisualmusic.org and oskarfischinger.org.
Daniel Spoerri - Snare Pictures & Artists Palettes
“objects, which are found in randomly orderly or disorderly situations, are mounted on whatever they are found on (table, box, drawer, etc.) in the exact constellation they are found in(…).”
by declaring these works as tableaus the horizontal becomes the vertical. Similarly Artists Palettes display several of Spoerris fellow artists studio tables and there contents as found, these are what he calls their “Palettes”.
