About the video
This is an excerpt from lgOpre (luh – GOP - ruh), an audiovisual installation of projected digital animation and multichannel sound created with real-time software that links vintage grid pattern algorithms with vinyl record lock-groove samples.
The artist-developed software behind the installation uses enhanced 1970s abstract image generation routines and appropriated color schemes to create an animation that is also a visual controller for a modular digital sound studio. Each of the 34 grid pattern building blocks used for lgOpre is mapped to its own set of processed and unmodified lock-groove samples.
As the animation unfolds, the color of the underlying grid is used to select which sounds will play as indicated by one or more highlighted red dots. Aleatoric color schemes introduce a degree of chance to the sound-image mapping.
Locked grooves and the title of my 2002 video Open Research which juxtaposed animated black and white ‘big bit’ grids with human-sized inflatable sculpture from the late-1960s helped give lgOpre its name: locked groove Open research.
