hardVideo/G.S.I.L.XIX is a generative audiovisual collaboration between LIA and the Portuguese experimental music collective @c (Miguel Carvalhais, Pedro Tudela, Pedro Almeida).
The work was created to coincide with the release of the album hard disc (Crónica 001). Rather than functioning as a traditional music video where images are subservient to the audio, the piece acts as an autonomous work that explores the specific visual-audial context of the trio’s live performances. The generative visuals evolve in a parallel dialogue with the sound, documenting the aesthetic language of the collaboration in 2003.
The work is distributed by Sixpackfilm and has been screened at major international festivals including Sonar (Barcelona and São Paulo), Sonic Acts (Amsterdam), and the European Media Art Festival (EMAF).
hardVideo/G.S.I.L.XIX (2003), generative audiovisual work. Curated excerpt.
Selected generative outputs.
The Concept
Rhythmic order, graphic disintegration, and in the end sound/image coagulation: hardVideo/G.S.I.L.XIX by Viennese graphic programmer LIA uses the music provided by Portuguese trio @c to create opposing elements of tension between the levels of sound and image. […] The result is an interminable gap between the sound and the accompanying images. Column-shaped “crystallizations,” some of them orange-colored, intensify the impression that each “direct” visualization should be discretely rejected.
Lines of patterns resembling Rorschach inkblots permit a view of rarely seen liquid-crystal circuitry – the “hard wiring” underlying the fluid crunching sounds. Whirring electronica arabesques precede the inevitable commencement of the white noise, which is also intended as a psychological test for advanced minimalists.
Text by Christian Höller (Sixpackfilm)
Project Details
Year Created: 2003
Medium: Generative Audiovisual Work / Single-Channel Video
Duration: 4’47”
Format: 720 x 576
Creative Collaboration
Sound: @c (Miguel Carvalhais, Pedro Tudela and Pedro Almeida)
Album Release: ‘hard disc’ (Crónica 001)
Distribution & Selected Screenings
Distributed by: Sixpackfilm
International Short Film Festival, Hamburg, Germany (’35. IKFF’, June 4 – 10, 2019)
Sonic Acts, Amsterdam, Netherlands (‘Sonic Acts X’, September 25, 2004)
Sonar Festival, Barcelona, Spain (‘Festival Screening’, June 17 – 19, 2004)
Sonar Festival, São Paulo, Brazil (‘Festival Screening’, September 1, 2004)
EMAF – European Media Arts Festival, Osnabrück, Germany (‘Festival Screening’, April 21 – 25, 2004)
Tampere Film Festival, Tampere, Finland (’34. Short Film Festival’, March 3 – 7, 2004)
WRO Media Art Biennale, Wrocław, Poland (‘WRO Film Festival’, May 11 – 15, 2005)
Diagonale, Graz, Austria (‘Festival of Austrian Film’, March 24 – 30, 2003)
