VART3490 - Installation Art :: Synchresis Experiments with VGA Audio Hacking

Synchresis - 

Synchresis is the forging between something one sees and something one hears - it is the mental fusion between a sound and a visual when these occur at exactly the same time. Synchresis is an acronym formed by telescoping together the two words synchronism and synthesis.

- Michel Chion http://filmsound.org/chion/sync.htm
 Synchresis further reading: http://www.generativeart.com/on/cic/papers2005/p10.danielwilson.htm

I also intended to incorporate a visual element to represent the site, but this would be entirely emergent from the the performed audio - being the dominant mode of expression.

As I had initially intended to use a projector to display an abstract temporal construct of the lighting and/or electomagnetic elements of the space via timelapse or color during the installation - I came across a more conceptually congruent solution - a simple hack for computer monitors.

I had indentified my computer screens as the primary focal points of the site as being the key visual elements I wanted to represent in the installation, this hack served ideally to represent these screens in an abstract form - their displays entirely emergent from the performed audio - allowing my soundscape to illuminate the space via the audio frequencies being sent to the speakers.