Sunday, October 15, 2006

Some work from SemiConductorFilms



Semiconductor's latest contribution to the genre of live cinema is their dedicated live performance software Sonic Inc ;a real-time 3D drawing tool that charts the beginning of an artificial world and its shapeless inhabitants. The visual aesthetic of Sonic Inc. moves away from the high-tech world of computer graphics and towards the inherent visual language of the computer as material.

The slick complexity of current computer graphics is stripped back to reveal the basic building blocks of computational visual language. An unformed landscape evolves with simple “life forms” that grow according to the soundscape. Forming as basic structures and developing into creatures, they learn to move autonomously, grow, respond to and build their own environments. This progression reveals as much about the birth and development of the microchip as it does about the world it projects.

Sonic Inc's development was inspired by the challenge to create truly live image creation and manipulation. The program 'listens' to the sound input and creates and animates the landscapes and the creatures from scratch, according to Semiconductors real time inputs. Every element is controlled in real-time; the cameras, the viewpoint, the creation and application of image textures,the creature development, the landscape creation etc.This is a multi-purpose program which can also be used as an improvisational tool, using a direct audio feed with live musicians.

goto: http://www.semiconductorfilms.com/sonic_inc.htm and click on the QuickTime link to see video.

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