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Nothing There by Brendan Dawes, 2004

Nothing There is a computational work made from the soundtrack within the movie, The Man Who Wasn’t There. In the piece, each element is dictate by the amount of sound present during that movie frame. The piece is a representation of silences and pauses within the film.

I is interested in the seemingly not organized, randomness, of this piece, is actually generated from a specific movie and specific timing within the movie. It is powerful to concise a movie silences and pauses frames visually in one piece. The black and white color choice add into to topic of silence. Looking at each element closely and standing back and look them as one piece of work, I do feel the pauses and silences that the Dawes want to represent. It is interest to see the precise informations generating the sense of randomness in the piece.