Azzarella Studio

The following four works focus on transposition and transmutation; the way our brains perceive inputs of vision and sound, and that which is unseen and unheard. The dataset utilized in the following works is one of the four films re-edited by director Steven Soderbergh in 2014 and 15. Represented below are the four permutations of his film Psychos, where he combined and overlaid the original 1960 Psycho with the 1998 Gus Van Sant remake of the film. The Soderbergh version can be viewed at this link.

Initial transposition sorts the image pixels to bring order to them while breaking the standard rectangular image frame. Once sorted the lightwaves emitted from the film have been captured and converted into their audio equivalent for the accompanying soundtrack, allowing the viewer to "hear" what the image sounds like.

The following transmutations are 3d printed sculptural that work visualizes the sound from one scene in each film. The audio data has been mapped in 3D space to create a representation of how the image sounds. The works are shown with a still image from the scene that generated the form.

Based on the audio data generated from and iconic scene in each film, a point is driven around a virtual canvas creating marks based on volume, pitch, and speed fluctuations.

The last in the series of four transpositions, these works use the lightwave-based audio from each film to algorithmically generate a musical score for performance by the string section of an orchestra. The composition are likely unplayable by humans.