30×1 is a mutant, evolutionary audiovisual composition developed by LIA in collaboration with sound artists Miguel Carvalhais and Pedro Tudela (collectively known as @c).
The project was conceived as a spatial installation where images and sounds are distributed across a variable number of screens, creating an open, non-linear narrative. The configuration adapts to the specific architecture of each venue, ranging from a 15-screen array at Solar Galeria to a setup of large-scale projections and monitors at Casa da Música.
Although the playback in the installation was randomized, the synchronization between audio and video was absolute. LIA developed a rigorous process for the generation: analyzing the audio amplitude frame-by-frame into data, and then using that data to render the visuals image-by-image. This ensured that every visual movement was a precise, zero-latency translation of the sound. The single-channel film version of the work is distributed by Sixpack Film.
int.16/45//son01//30×1 (2005), excerpt from the single-channel film. The full version can be viewed on Vimeo.
Installation at Solar Galeria, Vila do Conde (2005)
Installation view of the 15-screen configuration.
’30×1.2′ Installation at Casa da Música, Porto (2007)
Installation view featuring projections and monitors.
The Concept
30×1 is an audiovisual composition, a mutant and evolutional piece, developed for a space where images and sounds are distributed and mechanically articulated. All the composition is created using synchretic audiovisual pairs, juxtaposing audio and visual objects with diverse origins but a common integration.
Digital Ontology; at a given moment a relation of parity is established between the sound elements and the visual elements that compose this piece. Independently of their origin, at a given moment, the base code of both elements’ representation is the same, identical, undifferentiated, and infinitely accessible and scrutinizable. In that moment, that place, those elements are information, closely related and parameterized, in continuous dialogue, emerging as an audiovisual unit, points of light and sound exquisitely intertwined, sharing the same digital ontology.
Text by João Cruz
Project Details
Year Created: 2005–2007
Medium: Generative Audiovisual Installation / Single-Channel Video
Creative Collaboration
Visuals & Software: LIA
Sound: @c (Miguel Carvalhais & Pedro Tudela)
Exhibitions
Casa da Música, Porto, Portugal (’30×1.2′, 2007)
Solar Galeria de Arte Cinemática, Vila do Conde, Portugal (2005)
Distribution
The single-channel version int.16/45//son01/30×1 is distributed by Sixpack Film.
