Visual Silence is a video installation that is responsive to the ambiant noise surrounding it; the spectators’ sounds and movements are picked up, digitised, and split up into frequency bands that are visualised as an array of horizontal lines.
The installation is designed to respond to a purpose-made soundtrack as well as to the sounds involuntarily produced by the audience, thus blurring the boundary between art and non-art. Accidental noises such as those produced by the spectators’ movements are considered to be integral to the work.
The installation seeks to encourage the audience’s involuntary interaction with the piece, by making the spectator increasingly aware of his own presence and integrating the accidental noises they are producing, turning what is deemed empty and silent into a visible manifestation.
Sound composition: Richard Comte
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