Sound

The short film Listen by David New was a very interesting almost surreal reminder of what sound really is. We often take the sounds we hear on a daily basis for granted and we are bombarded with so many that we often don't even hear some of them. There truly is art everywhere around us. The concept that recorded sound is an artificial, almost filtered sound that we hear was an interesting concept to think about. It is like a memory of a sound that happened a long time ago.

Crowdsourcing

In this modern age that we live in, technology is inevitably infiltrating our daily lives whether we want it to or not. We as a society are becoming more and more connected through the internet. The idea of crowdsourcing to collaborate on projects and ideas in different ways feels like an exciting move forward to operate. Whether through financing projects, coming up with business ideas, or completing a task, the work can be outsourcing to people around the world to get the best ideas that are out there and to unite the world to work together. There is something highly romantic about the idea of the world coming together and completing tasks instead of being isolated and misunderstood. The Cloud Filmmaking Manifesto by Tiffant Shlain is an innovative manipulation of technology to make the art of collaboration.

Cymatics and Synesthesia

The power of the human brain to process numbers and letters and see them as different colors is an amazing phenomenon. To turn often mundane numbers and letters into something beautiful adds another dimension to a persons outlook on life. What is art is one of the biggest questions there is in the world. Art has been been around in some way, shape or form since the beginning of humans being in existence. The intersecting rather than the collaboration of the different senses is a concept that artist have been experimenting with, specially in the 21st century with the increase in the access and quality of technology. Cymatics is the ultimate example of this marriage of technology and the mixing of senses. The visual manifestation of sound is something that people often image when they hear  music or sounds, but seeing what that sound could look like is opening a new door into the barriers of the senses, In film, senses are extremely important in sight and sounds. In experimental film the sky is the limit to what is acceptable.

Begone Dull Care First Impressions

The film images matched with the beats of the music with flashes and bursts of colorful images.  The images on screen took on the life of the strings.  The duration of the images were different with some images that were almost subliminal messages.  Psychedelic feeling.  The film was made with music in mind, it seems.  The film seems ahead of its time and the images were painted onto the film.  "Visual music" in that the film is perfectly matched with the jazz music.  The colors in the film matched with the tonal "color" qualities in the music.