Transferring Visual Patterns to Audio Through a Visuals-driven Algorithmic Approach

Abstract

Xeno is is an audiovisual artwork characterised by a tight connection between audio and visuals. The artwork aims to foster speculative reasoning on the nature of sound and challenge its nature within the audiovisual context, where it is usually seen as a product of physical actions.

The cohesion between the visuals and the audio required the latter to mirror through a sequence of silences and sounds the pattern of black frames and images exhibited by the former. However, as a manual approach to this task was impractical, the algorithmic system described in this paper was specifically developed.