Louviere+ Vanessa

Resonantia is based on the interaction of sight and sound. Although scientifically categorized as respective senses, they can often work in unison. The term kymatik was coined by the Swiss doctor Hans Jenny in 1967. But this phenomenon had been noted hundreds of years earlier by both DiVinci and Galileo....
Resonantia is based on the interaction of sight and sound. Although scientifically categorized as respective senses, they can often work in unison. The term kymatik was coined by the Swiss doctor Hans Jenny in 1967. But this phenomenon had been noted hundreds of years earlier by both DiVinci and Galileo. Our years of exploring the fringes of photography have driven us to an equal preoccupation with the ways that the gap between sight and sound can be bridged and presented as fine art. Just as a sound can be seen, so too can an image be heard. These images are echoes. Everything you see here is a sound. Everything you hear is a photograph. The images and record are reflections of each other fluctuating between differing mediums: sight, sound, time, and space. The 12 photographs represent the 12 notes used to create music. We photographed the sounds using a handmade spectrograph. We transformed the photograph back into a sound and created a three minute soundscape using all 12 photo-tones. We came full circle by broadcasting that song through a digital spectrometer which photographed the sound as a spectrogram revealing all 12 images. The 12-note soundscape on the record can be reconstituted by the listener into photographs by way of a simple spectrometer. The second song is a more traditional song and is a visceral response to the technological aspect of the project. A praxinoscope etched into side A is an analog music video for the duet that turns 12 photographs into a single animation. Side B has a high resolution gray scale photograph mastered directly into the original lacquer. It exists as a photograph through the time-based process of lacquer mastering for music. Science and art share the same infinite and seek to describe it with the finite. Science finds the infinite in the Idea and art in the perceptible material we use to etch it. It can be as mind-blowing as a snowflake and as sublime as the big bang. Each a souvenir of the infinite.
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Resonantia vinyl sides A and B