Going back to the last few posts, I talked about Hambling’s installation ‘War Requiem’. I mentioned about doing a video of my textured self-portrait and I have now created one and uploaded it to youtube. The video is 3 minutes and 31 seconds long and I added a sequence of photos of my painting starting from the bottom to the top and then finishing with the painting as a whole. Originally I was going to combine my own composition to the video, but I felt that as this is an experiment, I would add a song that fits well with me and with how emotional I was that day. The original photograph, which I took myself, was a day I felt upset and angry and I wanted that frustration out onto the canvas. The song I chose is ‘Nuvole Bianche’ by Ludovico Einaudi, listening to the piece and watching the video in progress, I felt that it is the perfect song for me. I personally felt the movement and the colour of the paint fit very well together.
Yesterday I went to record the song on piano using a recorder and a midi cable so no background noise could be heard, but some problems occurred. The cable would not work, so the only other option would have been to play it with the background noise. I felt that the background noise would confuse and distract the audience. The perfect environment that worked well for me was it to be played in a dark room on your own, sitting back with your earphones in and watch the video full screen and focus on the movement and the colour of the paint and listen to sounds on top of it…..also play the video in HD so the texture of the paint is clear as it can be.
Next step for me is to create that environment in the black space in the studio and set up a projection of the video and create that exact environment. If no one can see or feel the same of how I felt that does not matter so much to me, I know everyone is going to react differently. After I’ve done that experiment I’m going to make the three large canvases that I would like to be in the final degree show, if the projection experiment work I may sway towards that idea, so we will see what happens. Due to copyright for the audio I would have to find a way to record the song myself, but for now I’ve attached a link for the song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdDDY5nVA3A
