BIRDS CAN PAINT
This video series was created by ten birds native to Australia, in that it was their song that created the colour and movement. I made the different bird songs visible via mapping their sound frequencies to the RGBA colour model. The choice of which frequency was mapped to which colour was inspired by an ancient Taoist thought called WuXing, which is a fivefold conceptual scheme used in many traditional Chinese fields of study to explain a wide array of phenomena. WuXing maps the five musical notes in the pentatonic scale to the five basic colours - so using this as a guide I mapped the bass, low, medium and high frequencies to the RGBA colour model of alpha, green, red, and blue. These videos were exhibited as part of the installation THE FOUNT and also printed as 10 archival inkjet prints.
10 procedural videos of 3 min duration / 10 video still archival inkjet prints on on Hahnemühle bamboo matt paper 450mmx650mm