A visualization or music video for Big Reveal (In C) — an experimental choral work by renowned musician, composer, and sound artist Petri Kuljuntausta.
The piece was exhibited MUU Helsinki Contemporary Art Centre in 2024.
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An excerpt of the soundtrack loop for an exhibition by a Guadeloupean artist Karib.
The piece is largely based on the high-pitched sound of a reverberating cannon shell casing, which acts like a tuning fork after being fired. In this case, its frequency is about 4400 Hz, or slightly below C#, which corresponds to the wavelength of the casing’s diameter or the cannon’s caliber. The sound is played at different octaves/pitches and processed in various ways. It is mixed with the sound of a Tibetan prayer bell and a temporally lengthened and highly processed sound of a creaking door brings along an organic dynamism.
ORB, commissioned by Juha van Ingen, transforms ordinary street signposts into pedestals for virtual sculptures.
In downtown Helsinki, there’s a place called Lasipalatsin aukio (Glass Palace Square), slated for renovation along with the surrounding area. At the center of the square stands a tree that is set to be cut down. In response, a group of artists created works dedicated to the tree — I was invited to contribute as well.
For my piece, I photographed the tree and used the images as input for a generative sound process. The photo is scanned from left to right, with the light areas providing data for a set of oscillators, waveforms, and filters. The resulting sound composition is taken from one full scan pass.
AS Long As Possible (ASLAP) is a 1000 year long animated GIF loop. It’s an art project by Juha van Ingen in collaboration with Janne Särkelä. It is the longest GIF in the world. After 1000 years it’ll start again from the beginning.
The starting point in making AS Long As Possible was to make a one extremely long animated GIF loop. ASLAP is made of black frames with a white number indicating the frames position in the loop. There are 48 140 288 frames which change in c.a. 10 minute intervals making the total duration of the loop 1000 years.
The GIF animation specification itself doesn’t limit its length.
The name of ASLAP is hommage to John Cage composition “ORGAN2/ASLSP” (1987) which is played with Halberstad organs for the next 625 years. The abbreviation of Cages composition included and instruction to the performer of the piece: As SLow aS Possible.