3d collages composed in Unity with scans collected in botanic gardens, backyards, beaches, natural parks…
Flux Æterna is a musical composition for Internet. It comes in the form of an endless audio stream. Listening conditions of Flux Æterna are similar to those of a web radio. But here, the user can influence the contents of this work by providing his own sound files.
This work can be adapted to multi-channel installation or concert.
Technical setup
The composition of Flux Æterna is a technical set including:
1 : The website to connect to the stream, to upload sound files to the sftp server and to find information about the work.
2 : The score, written in the form of a software made in MaxMSP. Therefore, a software that reads and converts the sounds arriving at the server, following differents features deterministics, randoms or stochastics. A transcription, as musical notation, is attached to this program.
3: The audio stream, is published on the Internet through a server broadcasting in format mp3 stereo 320 kbps. It can be read by many softwares : VLC Quicktime iTunes Flash... running on any platform (PC, smartphone or tablet).
Listen to the flux here : http://srv-aeterna.univ-st-etienne.fr:8000/fluxaeterna
http://news.gestalten.com/motion/john-stezaker
In an image-saturated world, British collage artist John Stezaker rather creates more with less. Cutting up yesterday photographs, subtracting pieces, and juxtaposing faces, he transforms forgotten photographs and postcards into symbolic portraiture of modernism. Stezaker’s artistic interests in examining hidden relations between images have bestowed international success and recognition upon him and his collage art. Gestalten.tv had a precious opportunity to speak with the artist at his exhibition in Berlin’s Capitain Petzel Gallery. Featured in the celebrated group exhibition The Age of Collage, his topical work is now on display at Gestalten Space in Berlin until January 12, 2014. The accompanying book The Age of Collage: Contemporary Collage in Modern Art takes an insightful behind-the-scenes look at those working with this interdisciplinary and cross-media approach.