REDUCTIVE WAVES [2008]
About the video
Reductive Waves features two main visual elements. The first is footage of light moving across my living room wall, shot during a summer sunrise. The second is a series of digital images I created via a reductive process in Photoshop, creating 150 abstract images which resemble soundwaves by using my own photographs of resonant architectural spaces as source material. These images are set to a soundtrack of manipulated field recordings of urban construction and waves on a lakefront along with synthesizer melodies and drones to present a meditation on the visualization of sound via contrasting natural and human-crafted environments.
Reductive Waves premiered at Soundwalk 2008, East Village Arts District, Long Beach, California, 20 September 2008.