A/V Work

 

My audiovisual work combines a range of tools such as Ableton and Zwobot, to design videos synced to my compositions and that channel the aesthetics of my visual art in real time.

Here’s an example, an excerpt from my forthcoming album, Fargazing:

This piece is from the track Midsummer also on Fargazing - due to be released in December 2024 on Lithuania’s Greyscale. Here like in much of my work, I enjoy the interplay of highly digital processes alongside the feel of analogue objects, such as paper.

This piece Frog Galaxy, from my previous album And Breathe, released on Natural Expressions, explores quite a different visual palette of glitches, decayed images, and drifting clouds of smoke.

I’m also keen on using generative methods to create complex, and evolving worlds that look like they could have been hand animated, for example Innœr, also from And Breathe

 

While some of these pieces showcase a rather hectic musical and visual aesthetic slow pieces can also be interwoven with visuals using these methods.

For example this piece, Worlpool, perhaps my favourite from And Breathe, is a homage to rotoscoping and the older of sfx of films such as Ralph Bakshi’s Lord of the Rings, which I found so compelling as a child.


By using these programs in tandem, I sync my composition and video design process so the two can develop together, iteratively, with sonic and visual ideas feeding back on each other.

In this piece, I try to match the glitchy musical textures to the spasming shapes of the generative video.

Using a programme that is placed inside of ableton has other uses, for examples tools from Max for Live, such as LFOs and envelope followers can be used to control specific visual parameters, making visuals even more reactive to sound.