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 Digital Audio Film   
 

VIDEO

Digital Audio Film refutes simplistic divisions between analogue and digital by finding commonalities across media history.  Blank film stock is exposed to the laser pick-up of a portable CD player, transforming the machine from an audio playback device into both projector and camera.

The film reframes the data reading function of the device as an aesthetic action, inscribing a flickering dot of light, normally invisible to the naked eye, in the emulsion of the film. In doing so the work aims to bring these two optical media, one of sight and one of sound, into an anachronistic dialogue, allowing them to reveal one another’s materiality and finding a compatibility between these apparently mutually exclusive media which pushes both beyond their designed function.

Commissioned for Ftarri Festival 2015.
Soundtrack performed by Patrick Farmer, Madoka Kuono
& Stephen Cornford
Projection by Shinkan Tamaki & Stephen Cornford

 

 


 

 

 

  

 

 

--------------------------------------------------2026
Geotechnics With Anthony
Occlusion

--------------------------------------------------2025
eta-Earth

--------------------------------------------------2024
Department of Unfortunate Statistics
Four Million Tonnes per Annum
Cancelled Topographies

--------------------------------------------------2023
Spectral Index

Petrified Media

--------------------------------------------------2022
Dark Current Collages
Horizon of Fulfillment

--------------------------------------------------2021
To Photograph A Rock
Pixel Mining

--------------------------------------------------2020
E-Waste Litmus Prints

--------------------------------------------------2019
RGB [Retinally Governed Behaviours]

--------------------------------------------------2018
Saturation Trails - Acid
- Laser
- X-Ray
Destruction of an Image Sensor

-------------------------------------------------2016
Constant Linear Velocity
Augenmusik
Methodology for a Synaesthetic Screen

-------------------------------------------------2015
Migration
Digital Audio Film

-------------------------------------------------2013
Solipsism Cinema
Archipelago

-------------------------------------------------2012
Recorded (on) Delivery
Five Introverted Machines

-------------------------------------------------2011
Binatone Galaxy

-------------------------------------------------2010
In Search of a Concrete Music

-------------------------------------------------2009
Works for Turntable

-------------------------------------------------2008
Three Piece
Air Guitar
Extended Piano

------------------------------------------------2007
Trespassing The Olympic Site
For Violin, Viola & Tape