Music on Triggering Surfaces

synopsis

The changing brightness intensities of the image serve as input into the oscillator, which produces an audio signal based on their shifts. The greyscale shades of the video image being viewed are computationally translated into an audio track, and the moving image thus creates an analogue score for the electronic sound.

biography

Peer Bode (1952) is a German-American video artist and educator who explores new media and modes of perception. Since the mid-1970s, he has worked at the Experimental Television Center in New York, where he also created Music on Triggering Surfaces (1978). He is co-founder of the Institute for Electronic Arts at Alfred University. His work includes video, sound events, digital print, performance and dance.

more about film

director:	Peer Bode
producer:	Peer Bode