Link to Github: https://gist.github.com/gabrielchi/e43ee1f9be3a08cba4d12b2e011328f8
For this exercise, I wanted to combine some of my interests with the Granular Synthesis art piece. The video’s aesthetics were inspired by one of my favourite contemporary graphic design artists, Hassan Rahim. Specifically, his work for the band Nine Inch Nails caught my attention. The strongly contrasted, grainy, black and white album cover really peaked my interest and I believed it would be interesting to apply such a design to this exercise.
For the patch, I used what we practiced in class, with three videos going through the AV Players. However, I used the cropper to place and skew certain videos, to further emulate the visual style I was going for. After putting it in into the mixer, I put it in a down sampler effect, in the BBB mode, and adjusted the gain. For the audio, I put in a sequencer, which was connected to an oscillator. This oscillator acted as the background synth, which I made more atmospheric and spacey with the feedback delay and the gigaverb effects. For the video’s audio, I used specific parts of the video I thought were interesting, and adjusted their speeds in order to get the desired noise from the sample.
