Rhapsodic

Description

Rhapsodic – Massimo Magee

26 minutes 7 seconds.

Rhapsodic is an audiovisual digital art object by Massimo Magee, designed to be read by the computer as both a visual still image and as an audio piece, these being two readings of the same file. The piece was shaped across both visual and audio domains functionally simultaneously, meaning that a change in the visual domain also affected the audio, and a change in the audio also affected the visual. What the computer sees as one file with both visual and audio aspects enmeshed within and between each other at once, human observers require separate visual and audio translations of. The piece contains the sounds of image data with digital treatments, virtual piano generated from the image data, and live clarinet, and was all created at Massimo Magee’s studio in London, UK.

This is what I mean by pure audiovisual digital abstraction.

For more information on this process, see Manifesto (New Unities): 

https://www.manifestonewunities.bandcamp.com

Contains:

High resolution image reading: bmp and jpg, 7777×4444 px, 72 dpi

Lossless audio reading: wav, 26min 07sec

High Resolution Movie file with both image and audio: mp4, 1344x768px, 26min 08sec

(plus lossy versions of the above)