SOUND SEEKER
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David Jhave Johnston is a poet-programmer from Montréal who has produced a
large body of intermedial Flash-based net art for many years at his site
glia.ca. His most recent project is titled Sound Seeker. He says in the
"About" section that Sound Seeker is "an online real-time beat-synchronized
poem animator. Sound drives the rhythm of the words: their speed and style
of display can be controlled."
What you see on the homepage of the project are twelve experimental videos
produced by Jhave with Sound Seeker. You can access the underlying
interactive Flash app itself in the "Method" section of the documentation.
In the "Motivation" section, Jhave discusses remarks by Rudolph Arnheim
concerning intermedia.
This is a fascinating project with terrific documentation. The Sound Seeker
app has an interesting code idea (behaviour), the videos are compelling, the
music is fascinating in relation to the text, and the writing is very
strong. This is net art of the first order and one of the strongest works of
digital writing in several years.
For more work on Sound Seeker, see Jhave's site http://glia.ca . For his
other work, check out the linked archive; in combining video with computer
programming, Jhave is surely one of the best.
ja
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