Looking Outwards-04

For this project, a work that I found to be very interesting was “Purform – White Box, Audiovisual Performance” from 2010. I was mesmerized by the abstract visualization of sound on the giant screens, the animations smooth and flowing along to the music playing. This is something that I admire because I can recognize how difficult something like this must be to achieve. I personally very much love music, and to see it visualized through waves and other abstract shapes with this technology was very exciting. I’m not quite sure about the algorithms needed, but I would assume that they used trigonometric functions in order to make these kinds of shapes. The artist needed to be able to visualize how they wanted the sound to be portrayed on these screens, because this kind of project could have been interpreted in many different ways. The artists’ vision needed to be specific and they needed to use coding and other technology to make their vision a reality.

Watch the video here.