Cowboy Poetry
A work of visual music recorded during a series of live audiovisual performances.
Task
To create a direct relationship between sight and sound
Cowboy Poetry is a work of visual music recorded during a series of live audiovisual performances. The audio is created with a combination of hand made electronic instruments and vector imagery that has been translated into stereo audio. This audio is visualized on an oscilloscope and documented during the performance. The work is inspired by sociopolitical and theoretical ideas surrounding nationalism and americana. The work was created by Mark Franz and David Colagiovanni in the late summer and fall of 2019. Quotes by Noam Chomsky and Umberto Eco
Oscilloscopes have the ability to create visual representations of audio. They can draw the left and right audio channels of stereo audio as vertical and horizontal lines, similar to how the vertical and horizontal dials help to draw images an etch-a-sketch toy. For this project, vector imagery was created in Autodesk Maya, and exported as sound samples into Ableton Live. These sound samples were performed as audio and oscilliscope imagery. The live performances were recorded in 4K using a digital SLR and atomos ninja recording monitor.
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