David Galbraith » Video

KenKen GS (2014) video documentation

david — Wed, 15 Oct 2014 04:00:12 +0000

Video documentation of KenKen GS installed at The Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY, July, 2014.

KenKen GS is a videowork that explores a tightly-coupled yet non-linear and generative relationship between image and sound.

The work’s compositional basis includes the structure and expanded numerical content of KenKen puzzles published in the New York Times, historical color scales proposing different correspondences of color to musical pitch, and sixteen resonant acoustic frequencies recorded in and around the stairwell of the Museum of Arts and Design where the work was exhibited as an installation in 2014 for NYC Makers: The MAD Biennial.

KenKen GS is generated in real-time by Galbraith’s custom software, and features abstract graphics formatted with reference to the stairwell location and high definition display used for the NYC Makers exhibition.

The piece has a linear temporal structure and loops after the animation sequence completes. KenKen GS was first shown in 2011 and is adapted specifically for each new installation location.

Density (2014) video documentation

david — Mon, 28 Apr 2014 04:15:53 +0000

Video documentation of Density installed at Harvestworks, New York, NY, April, 2014.

Density is a generative installation of abstract animation with six-channel sound based on a vintage mathematics reference text. Reversing the traditional visual music mapping from musical pitch to color hue, Density structures the sonic realm through constraints derived from the visual domain.

Density (2013) video excerpt

david — Mon, 30 Dec 2013 05:00:36 +0000

Preview excerpt from Density, a single-channel video of abstract animation with stereo sound.

KenKen GS video documentation (#1)

david — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 04:00:58 +0000

Video documentation #1 of KenKen GS installed at Gridspace, Brooklyn, New York, May, 2011.

KenKen GS is a new installation work that continues Galbraith’s exploration of a tightly-coupled yet non-linear and generative relationship between image and sound.

KenKen GS video documentation (#2)

david — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 04:00:32 +0000

Interior view of the KenKen GS installation at Gridspace, Brooklyn, New York, May, 2011.

In the left monitor is Composition 2010 ETC is a single-channel video created from footage shot at the Experimental Television Center (ETC) studio during my 2010 residency.

KenKen GS video documentation (#3)

david — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 04:00:02 +0000

Video documentation #2 of KenKen GS installed at Gridspace, Brooklyn, New York, May, 2011.

KenKen GS is a new installation work that continues Galbraith’s exploration of a tightly-coupled yet non-linear and generative relationship between image and sound.

Composition 2010 ETC (video excerpt)

david — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 05:00:27 +0000

Composition 2010 ETC is a single-channel video (duration 4:08) created from footage shot at the Experimental Television Center (ETC) studio during my 2010 residency. Using analog video modules that can convert audio waveforms into video signals I recorded 30 minutes of attempts to draw a straight horizontal line across the video screen using my custom analog synthesizer modules. This “straight line” action has been a motivation behind other works of mine and references the score of American composer La Monte Young’s Composition 1960 No. 10 which reads “draw a straight line and follow it”. My Composition 2010 ETC edits this tightly integrated sound/image footage down to a four-minute mix. By including ETC in the title of the work I wanted to pay homage to the Experimental Television Center studio which closed in June, 2011 after a forty-year history as an important center for experimental video work.

Double Square video excerpt

david — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 14:00:01 +0000

Excerpt from Double Square (2009) color animation with sound, 5 min. 54 sec.

Double Square was created in part by extending a 1968 Philip Glass work for two flutes into an audiovisual score used by custom software to simultaneously generate a grid-based animation and microsonic, multichannel sound.

lgOpre installation documentation (excerpt)

david — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 04:00:46 +0000

lgOpre installation documentation video excerpt, 2:10. lgOpre (pronounced luh-GOP-ruh) uses software written by the artist to link grid patterns with vinyl record lock-groove samples. Full-screen elemental grids accompanied by a solo sound samples give way to the look of blocky color video games or computer core dumps and densely layered multichannel sound. Installation at Diapason Gallery, April 2008.

lgOpre (detail) video excerpt

david — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 14:00:10 +0000

Excerpt from lgOpre (2008) color animation with sound, 5:12.
Detail animation from the lgOpre installation with a stereo mix made from the original 8-channel sound.