John Grzinich
Project: Location Sound Project
Category: Sound Art, Video
Period: September 2006
Event: Nodar Pushing the Medium #2 Residency and Symposium
I’ve been thinking about ways to visually represent sound compositions for some years now.
One idea I’ve had for a long time is to make a composition “score” out of photos, drawings and notes connected to the sounds in a particular piece and how they were used. The idea is to show just how complex sound compositions can be.
One problem is that to document every step of the process can be more work than the composing itself.
So a second idea is to document a composition using video. This can be easier, especially if you keep the composition more “simple” and try not to have too many layers, effects etc…
Each recording session in a location is also “photographed” as video. Afterwards the video is montaged along with the sound in a way that it becomes a visual composition.
A video of the collective composition with Antonio Della Marina and Maksims Shentelevs:
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John Grzinich | USA, Estonia
Media artist (mostly electronic, sometimes not) and MoKS Media Lab coordinator, working with sound for over 10 years and with video for 5. He has constructed various permutations of sound and video individually and together in compositions, installations and performances. He has released CDs on a host of independent labels internationally such as SIRR (PT), CMR (NZ), Elevator Bath (US), Staalplaat (NL), Intransitive (US), Erewhon (BE) and others.