"limosa (time slice)"

Digital print, 13” x 31” (framed), 2005.

Here we see a slice, through the time dimension, of an abstract animation (a mathematical visualization). We see how a single scanline changes as the animation unfolds. This 2D slice of a 4D object is then mapped into sound, so the image is actually a graphical music score. I sonify the score to create music that correlates sonically with what we see unfold visually in the animation. We hear the colors. We listen with our eyes.

"limosa (time slice, integrated)"

Digital print, 13” x 31” (framed), 2005.




Here we see, as a single image, a static representation of an abstract animation (a mathematical visualization). We see an averaging of each animation frame represented as a single vertical line--the lines "stack-up" left to right showing how the animation unfolds. This 2D representation of a 4D object is then mapped into sound, so the image is actually a graphical music score. I sonify the score to create music that correlates sonically with what we see unfold visually in the animation. We hear the colors. We listen with our eyes.

Brian Evans, Associate Professor of Art
Department of Art and Art History, University of Alabama

Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA

I make digital maps. The maps loop in time or in the moment. There is synchrony in the sensory horizontal and the temporal vertical. Image and audio derive from the same numeric source. Each maps the other in the moment or through time. It's visual music in a synaesthetic counterpoint. Perhaps it's abstract expressionism, true to its digital materials, founded in musical traditions and Modernist formalism. But it's loosened a bit. It's meant to be fun.. It's jazz in color, shape, sound and computation. Relax. Hear the colors. Listen with your eyes.