Image and Sound Synthesis through Visual Stimuli, An interactive installation
Amir Soltani, 2002 East International, Norwich Gallery

The core of this setup is a large (the size is flexible and open to change) mural size wall piece, which consists of many fragments of coloured numbers and alphabetic letters. They are number 0 to 8 and A to G, which is a sort of random musical score that is different every time it is installed. The next part is a basic video camera pointed to the wall piece and it’s signal is connected to a Mac that is running a software which in return translates motion, color and brightness to MIDI and consequently to sound. Through predefined setting it’s possible to turn all this into real-time generated music. The audience can interact by moving/turning the camera and pointing it still or other moving objects.

At this point another addition of one to two LCD projectors can enhance the installation. They can project the processed video mixture (real-time and pre-recorded) onto the gallery windows, which are covered with semi-translucent 3M etched films (easy to install and remove), thus breaking the boundaries of inside and outside of the gallery and imposing the exhibition to the outdoor realm. The images will be of the processed live video from inside and other pre-recorded video of rhythmic visual music. Currently I’m in the process of finishing the video editing.

As I mentioned the size and shape of the installation is flexible. This installation hopes to invoke a sparks of curiosity in all viewers. It isn’t to take the process of art and technology too serious rather using it to create an interactive new space where sound and images are intertwined.
Musical Matrix

This project explores the interactive possibilities between art, human, and technology in an installation form, using a Macintosh computers, MAX/MSP a MIDI programming software, and Imagine a real-time video processing program as an interface.The purpose is to create automated sound (music) using a mixture of real-time and pre recorded video images as triggering device (score).

The music was created in real-time using a random generated engine.