Author: Vincent Wofle

I was going to write this one about durational pieces, but literally the only piece I can remember right now is Hsieh’s Time Clock Piece (photo). I mentioned trying to do long-form durational works, but via finding documentation methods that don’t put a strain on the performer & are passive. So, Time Clock Piece is the exact opposite of that. I had a friend who I worked with on sleep-disorder art-projects do a piece where they had a bedsheet covered in charcoal powder, slept in it, then displayed the bedsheet as a drawing. I have a wall in my bedroom covered in white canvas from a video piece I made 2 or 3 years ago. Canvas hasn’t been taken down, & it’s been collecting nice smudges since. Sorry, memory is blanked!

Hi this is Vincent.

Weird one but it’s what I can think of— I spent a lot of time driving over the Summer for work, and it had me thinking about how roadside architecture & road markings are consistent patterns. Kind of similar to Midi notes. And I was thinking about how to, without having synestisia, train yourself to have the same response to your brain to a visual patten as an audible one (music). Had some idea about if machine vision in self driving cars that’s already got datasets made to read those lines (poles, signs, etc.) could be repurposed to express them as music-audio.