David Muth [uk] - You
Are The Sony Of My Life, 3:38, 2007
The video piece “You Are The Sony Of My Life”
is an amalgam of concise visual language tightly fused with
the whimsical, flickering soundtrack by GCTTCATT.
The piece starts with an image of a white plane, which subsequently
becomes perforated with bursts of oblique linear elements.
As the soundtrack moves on, these acoustically driven perforations
merge into larger geometric shapes. A fine grid of interwoven
horizontal and vertical stripes becomes revealed progressively
over time.
In David Muth’s piece it seems to be the soundtrack
that sculpts the image - by adding and removing visual material,
filling certain image regions or dissecting the visual plane.
In return, the film acts as a visual amplifier for the audio.
“You Are the Sony of My Life” is an ‘Absolute
Film’ in more than one sense: it is not only entirely
abstract, but also rejects the illusionist principles of animation.
There is no hint of a visual space populated by animated shapes.
Constrained by the regime of the scanline, the visual organization
of the piece remains entirely rhythmic.
Text by Dietmar Offenhuber
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David Muth is a London based musician, artist and programmer.
Having grown up in Salzburg, Austria, he relocated to the
UK to study at Middlesex University, where he received an
MA in Digital Arts.
His approach to making things combines the conceptual and
the experimental and is informed by his background in architecture.
His projects range from responsive installations and technology
driven performance environments, through video and experimental
documentary, to composition and performance of music.
David’s work has been shown on numerous occasions internationally,
with venues and events including the Musée d’Art
Contemporain in Montreal, the Kiasma Museum of Modern Art
in Helsinki, Ars Electronica in Linz, ISEA2006 in San Jose
and Le Cube in Paris. He also teaches at Goldsmiths and the
Royal College of Art.
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www.davidmuth.net
www.interaction.rca.ac.uk/people/staff/david-muth.html
http://soda.co.uk/team/profile/david
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