INSTANT PLACES : ART GALLERY OF PETERBOROUGH
SEPTEMBER 17—OCTOBER 31, 2010

In June 2010 we spent a week recording images and sounds in Peterborough, Ontario, and over the summer composed processes to generate image/sound sequences from this material. Over each unique sequence the video program decomposes photographs of everyday objects and events: as downsampled layers form keying windows a formal layout of seven image frames melts and stretches into twisting knots of colour. In the AGP installation this video field spanned two projectors, filling a gallery wall with generated sequences of dimensions 34' by 10'.

In developing the multichannel audio component we edited samples from the Peterborough location recordings, and used these samples as material for laptop improvisations which we recorded. Each generated video progression is accompanied by an eight-channel sound score in which 10 seconds chosen at random from the improvised performances is played through a slowly-moving audio window that scans across the sound file, zooming into microsonic details hidden in the sounds.