Author: Marieta Marinova

This experiment expressively demonstrates the effect I want to attain in the visual part of the project.

Memories are unobtainable – once they occur, they cannot be retrieved. We cannot see and hear them clearly, they modify into an obscure, remote and vitiating picture in our minds. Just like an old tape (a thing of the past!) starts decaying and deprives us of a quality sound and image, memories settle down in the glitchy, hazy world of oblivion to give way to new such. It is only natural for human beings to be unable to recollect every single moment of an old delightful occurrence and get just a touch of it in their heads, this is why I decided to show memoirs as a slackening, transistory, vague mental picture with the help of VHS-like effect.

My two ideas and inspiration – deriving sound from image and using trippy psychedelic effects as a visual, mixed together well. The audio produced by old photographs of mine has a crisp, scraping, a TV static effect to it. The glitches and distortions I would like to use perfectly merged with it. The outcome I want to achieve is similar to the video given – visuals adding to the strong influence of the sound.

Grounding my project on memories and sentimentality, I went back to the roots of the photograph, its invisible part – wavelengths and spectrum. I asked myself then what sound could an image produce. After some research, I found that it is possible to derive sound from visual. In that case the produced audio would be an utter surprise. The forementioned example gives an idea of how it can resonate (it is a somehow expected result – a digital, sharp, cutting sound).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EyZUTDAH0U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dst9gZkq1a8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diW6jXhLE0E

The main theme in the art I create is built on memories, nostalgia and utopia. For this sound project I again based my idea around these three aspects. This time I seeked inspiration from the trippy and psychedelic videos to songs by Travis Scott and The Weeknd, directed by the gaining popularity directing duo BRTHR. Mashing blasts of neon colours, blurs and distortions, adheres to their unique style in illustrating dreamlike visuals. That kind of effect evoked somehow nostalgic feeling – as if you’re tripping back to memories but as a gone moment they are unclear, foggy, cannot be reached or relived, can only be seen in a surreal fashion.