Creating a 'soup' of audio and video recordings
I have long been fascinated by the similarities and differences between auditory and visual perception and by the way time comes into play. This week, I participated in the Soundshed workshop, where we explored soundscapes and creative approaches to experiencing sound. My contribution was not a fixed media piece but rather the realisation of something I have been thinking about for a long time: a web app called AudioVideoSoup. Long ’exposure’ of audio and video Long-exposure photography turns motion into trails while reverb smears a dry sound into space. AudioVideoSoup is based on both at the same time. You load a video recording (with audio) and press play. The picture begins to smear into a running average of everything it has seen. The audio blurs into an ambient wash built from its own spectrum. ...