CSST -
Crossing Säule Sushi Train
Audiovisual Scanning and Mapping
Csst like the exclamation of cssst, similar to pssst is a piece combining 3 videos from Tokyo and one from Berlin into a layered composition which is column scanned at specified points.
The column scan of visual movement is converted to MIDI notes, so in a way the movement of these 4 separate scenes becomes the score and performers of 4 different instruments at the same time.
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When working with movement data it becomes obvious how the shaking of the camera introduces more impact than anything moving in the scene.
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Even recorded movement is so complex that although reduced to a line of pickup and straight forward translation methods used, the outcome is very intense.
This very experience is interesting because it gives a bit of insight in how well we handle implication processes of movement in daily life.
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The massive amount of notes played at once gives a grasp on how rich in information even a single pixel line of recorded movement is and that the full moving image of a video entails so many different movements that if you would convert them all, you would be left with noise.