Urban Decay-A Sonic Painting

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLJZOkan3YA
Here is a sonic painting I whipped up for a PHD application, it's basically a video painting of an area in the southern suburbs of Adelaide that you should avoid at all costs.  Yes it is a piece of music, albeit experimental.  The sounds of the area I recorded for my honours project, these are then reconstituted in a granular synth.  I've then layered another granular synth of the same sounds and ad libbed another layer.  The whole piece is anchored with guitar riffs.
The video is experimental, which uses techniques of the classical avant garde...Russolo, Schaeffer, Stockhausen and Cage...and for all who don't know without these four the techniques which we take for granted and use today in music would not exist.  The techniques of looping, speed effects, cutting and splice and even reverse, which I have employed within the video.
I've also use impressionist techniques of soft or out of focus shots and colour to highlight the beauty in the mundane and ordinary.
 
Cheers

tbosco
THAT was different!!  OK... I like the idea.  Question-  is the guitar sound coming from a processor?  A mic'd up amp?  I think the composition would have had much more impact if you had used  much more effected or ethereal sounding patch from a guitar processor... like lots of reverbs and delays and chorus or something...then alternate with some of the dry licks...  to add more "color" or "textures" to your Sonic Painting.
 
Interesting!
 
 

Thanks for watching...I almost said listening lol.  The guitar was just fed into my black box and I used Guitar Rig 4 and the jazz sort of clean amp...Cool Plex I think.  The actual sounds were all recorded in the areas I filmed, hence the sound fitted and then I synced and processed it through Padshop-a granular synth.  This had to be time aligned again by drawing an envelope curve and synching the positiion of the audio sample...very fiddly.  I've then used a second instance of Padshop and played the Yourock guitar over the top, again using the position in Padshop and an envelope curve to sync.  I'm the Van Gogh of digital art...lol.  Although I have no desire to cut my ear off or shoot myself 
 
Ben