Generative alu forms n°1: a musician's approach to the vasulkas' legacy
Résumé
Seen through the eyes of practicing musicians of the electronic medium, the approach of video artists in the Vasulka sphere is inspired by the conceptual and organological environment inherited from the emerging practices of electronic music. The temporal dimension of live sound is at the heart of processing and perception (flow, frequencies, delay lines, reinjection, signal amplitude variations, filtering, signal processing, use of perceptual thresholds). In an interview dating from 1978, Woody Vasulka defends the video medium as an art of the signal that summons sound and image, an art of real time, of the live. It was a time for 1 exploring the expressive potential of digital video technologies. At a time when video was moving from analog to digital, Woody Vasulka's artistic proposal with Syntax of Binary Images is to explore a sensitive means of expression, as close as possible to machine signal processing: operations on binary matrices derived from the first live digital video processing devices. Using sources from the Vasulkas' shared archive, and at the invitation of Jean-Marie Dallet and the SLIDERS_LAB, we experimented with Generative alu form n° 1, a sensitive, interactive audiovisual environment that creatively re-examines the potential for expression offered by the Syntax of Binary Images series in the 1970s.