Group Member’s: Sami Sharaf, Maresa Harey, Lauren Thomas, Kadri Mahmoud
Working Title: 21 Storey’s
Project Summary
We intend to create a visual experience synchronizing live perfomance music with projected stereoscopic images. The images will be used in conjunction with the band Atlases, whose experimental style and approach to music production will hopefully be represented in the visuals we produce. We will incorporate the use of processing software to synchronise a series of images, which will act as a visualiser for the sound levels produced by the musicians.
Our originally proposed project concerned ideas of reality and simulation within a media saturated culture, however we struggled to produce a grounding representation of this idea. This is still a key theme, which we will continue to explore within this piece, something that we would like to focus on in relation to our urban environment.
In relation to the brief of ‘convergent media’, we could argue that it is through re-representation that we are able to challenge the way audiences perceive certain object/ place etc. Through the use of photographic techniques we want to be able to challenge the typical associations audiences may have when looking at buildings, particularly flats in London. Noise pollution is a typical association with the city and we want to use these structures to reflect on our relationship with buildings and sound in today’s society. We will create replica builds of flats which we will then translate into 3d images. The reason for doing so being to create an illusion that the flats are ‘real’.
We have decided to incorporate the use of 3d imagery largely for two reasons. With 3d visuals we can argue that the visual experience becomes more immersive for its audience. The exaggeration of depth with the image questions the audiences perception of the objects that they are viewing in relation to notions of the ‘real’ . Not only this but the environment in which we intend to exhibit this project, we feel, will provide a new alternative experience for audiences watching a band, alternative to the typical setup. Audiences watching the band will be required to wear 3d anaglyph glasses in order to view the visuals we will poroject behind the band. We feel this will be an innovative approach to the use of 3d visuals, as it creates an interesting relationship between the images we are projecting – which will appear, to some extent, ‘realistic’ and the ‘real’ band who are actually playing live in front of the audience.
In addition we hope that this sense of questioning is heightened in the viewer in their acknowledgement of the relationship between the visual element and the music produced by the band. As the band play louder, more lights will appear on the flats, although we do no want this to appear evident and obvious to the viewer immediately, we hope that this is a realisation they will form relatively easily in order to appreciate its occurrence.
