Animated drawing produced with Beth Carter.

From Beth Carter’s original charcoal drawing ‘The Conjurors Horse’. A tethered horse pulls and bucks until the appearance of a small girl on his back, turning like a jewellery box ballerina, calms his escape attempts. The girl’s head transforms into various  symbolic heads referencing magic shows and the [...]]]>

Animated drawing produced with Beth Carter.

From Beth Carter’s original charcoal drawing ‘The Conjurors Horse’. A tethered horse pulls and bucks until the appearance of a small girl on his back, turning like a jewellery box ballerina, calms his escape attempts. The girl’s head transforms into various  symbolic heads referencing magic shows and the circus, a white rabbit, red and white roses, a white horse and finally  an artichoke symbolizing peace and fertility.

Animated drawing produced with Beth Carter.

Ideas of duality, starting with an inanimate rocking horse in a domestic setting replaced by a skeletal horse that comes to life entering a dream-like landscape. Freed from his restriction as a playroom rocking horse, his heart beats until the fire returns burning for a while before finally [...]]]>

Animated drawing produced with Beth Carter.

Ideas of duality, starting with an inanimate rocking horse in a domestic setting replaced by a skeletal horse that comes to life entering a dream-like landscape. Freed from his restriction as a playroom rocking horse, his heart beats until the fire returns burning for a while before finally extinguishing as the sequence begins again.

Referencing Bristol’s history of glass making, dating back to the 17th century when large ships exported bottles out of the city harbour, ‘Ship in a bottle’ was developed for BV Open Studios in Nov 2010. The work uses a ‘Pepper’s ghost’, a technique originally adopted by 1860′s stage show illusionists, [...]]]>

Ship in a bottle

Referencing Bristol’s history of glass making, dating back to the 17th century when large ships exported bottles out of the city harbour, ‘Ship in a bottle’ was developed for BV Open Studios in Nov 2010. The work uses a ‘Pepper’s ghost’, a technique originally adopted by 1860′s stage show illusionists, and consists of a viewing box containing a bottle housing a ghostly 3D white ship that drifts endlessly on a stormy sea. More images and video here.

‘One Last Hit’ from Director Jerri Hart, CWA Film

Post Production and SFX Supervisor, Key Grip, Data Capture and 2nd Camera rigging and set up.

Produced by a small multi-tasking crew, the film premiered at Two Short Nights Film Festival 2010, www.twoshortnights.co.uk.

Video, animation and live visual production

Art that stirs our emotions is powerful; Art that stirs us into action is magnificent…

Based in the South West of the UK, Joy Experiment (formerly known as Joy Collective) is an innovative cross-artform platform and production initiative.

Joy Experiment fosters exceptional professional emerging and mid-career artists working [...]]]>

Video, animation and live visual production

Art that stirs our emotions is powerful; Art that stirs us into action is magnificent…

Based in the South West of the UK, Joy Experiment (formerly known as Joy Collective) is an innovative cross-artform platform and production initiative.

Joy Experiment fosters exceptional professional emerging and mid-career artists working in visual, performing and/or digital art and film, and develops new audiences for them.

Joy Experiment facilitates the creation and presentation of new work in new ways, by encouraging artists to take risks, embrace new technologies and work collaboratively.

Joy Experiment blurs the boundaries between the different art disciplines, thereby challenging the way in which each is traditionally positioned and perceived by arts organisations, arts audiences and artists alike.

For more information please visit www.joyexperiment.com

I’M ON FIRE
Video remix created for Joy Collective live showcase
Performed by Drunk With Joy (words & music)

WOMAN
Video created for Joy Collective live showcase
Performed by Drunk With Joy (words & music)
Artwork: Ione Rucquoi (‘Birds, Fishwives and Bunnygirls’ series)

LULLABY
Video created for Joy Collective live showcase.
Performed Live at Exeter Phoenix by Drunk With Joy (words & music), Martin Holland (trumpet)
Artwork: Beth Carter (‘Kings’ series)

LED Zeppelins II

‘LED Zeppelins II – Space Synth’ is a generated soundscape mixer that uses computer vision (colour tracking) to track the x,y and z coordinates of up to three objects – in this case helium filled balloons – moving in 3D space from two live camera inputs.

Each tracked balloon [...]]]> Space Synth

LED Zeppelins II

‘LED Zeppelins II – Space Synth’ is a generated soundscape mixer that uses computer vision (colour tracking) to track the x,y and z coordinates of up to three objects – in this case helium filled balloons – moving in 3D space from two live camera inputs.

Each tracked balloon can be attributed up to three looped sound file segments that can be altered and mixed on-the-fly. The tracked balloons y coordinate alters the speed of playback of the mix of sound clips which is automatically graduated over a musical scale, but the user is given control over the range of each of the these three separate scales to allow a wider spectrum of sounds. At the same time, the x, y and z coordinate data adjusts the amplitude of each mix as it is routed to each speaker in an 8-channel setup – as each balloon moves around in the 3D space its individual complex mix of sounds targets its spacial location which is experienced in comparison to that of the other balloons.

The viewer engages in the project by controlling the input/mixing of the audio clips and moving the balloons around in the space whilst listening to the 8-channel playback and viewing the tracking of the balloons via output monitors built into the synth.

Documentation download (.pdf)