Meural Student Award 2017
Tadej Droljc, Capillaries Capillaries
Capillaries Capillaries is an audiovisual composition based on a non-hierarchical and hence bi-directional relationship between sound and image. Therefore the piece does not represent a visualisation of music or sonification of an image but rather emanates from an audiovisual paradigm that is based around the idea of an intertwined audiovisual interactions that I call audiovisual tangle. Audiovisual tangle essentially functions as a compositional constraint – the limits of visual paradigm prevent or constraint certain musical expressions and vice versa. These limitations on the other hand open up many additional possibilities. One that is of particular interest of me and was explored extensively in the piece is the ability of both modalities to modulate the meaning of each other on the level of perception, hence in very abstract and subjective way as our brains always try to fill the gaps between sound and image in order to make sense of the world out there.
Capillaries Capillaries does not try to exploit the fascination of a new technology as such but rather exploits software and computer development to try to rearrange “old” things in a “new” way. Due to new possibilities of technological advancement the whole composition was created in a (customised) real-time programming environment where audiovisual material could be treated as an instrument that reacts instantaneously and could be played via various controllers. Sonifying the geometry and manipulating it via 3D motion controller for instance enabled me to create rhythms and sounds in certain parts.
Special thanks go to: Dr. Alex Harker and Prof. Pierre Alexandre Tremblay for being absolutely amazing PhD mentors (*Capillaries Capillaries is a part of my PhD portfolio); Centre for Research in New Music (CeReNeM), University of Huddersfield, for awarding me a Denis Smalley Scholarship in Electroacoustic Music; the Ministry of Culture Slovenia for awarding me a scholarship for post-graduate studies abroad.
