Video

Traffic Flow II

Nick Fox-Gieg

2009, 03:00 minutes, colour

TAPECODE 180.26

Generated from television static processed in Painter, tightly choreographed to a soundscape evocative of mid-20th-century Toronto. Commissioned by TAIS as part of the Eleven in Motion series, based on the paintings of Oscar Cahén.

On the role of sound in this work, composer Diego Garro writes: “An example of ‘synchretic’ paradigms in visual music discourse can be found in Nick Fox-Gieg’s work Traffic Flow II (2009) in which the soundtrack features a substratum of broadband, urban modulated noises, in constant flux, from the surface of which a rich assortment of sonic ripples, granular streams and distinctive sound objects emerge, each one of them invariably synchronised with a visual gesture taken from a multifarious collection of sweeping, quickly morphing colourful swirls and surges. There is no observable spectromorphological bond between the audio and the video streams; on the contrary the two occupy opposite idiomatic polarities, the former rooted in a soundscape of city anecdotes, the latter suspended in a phantasmagoria of abstract patterns. However, it is the enduring synchronisation between cohesive sets of sonic and visual emergences that, in combination with their buoyant quality, establishes the particular lingo of this work.”

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