Live Sonification of Photography

Lecture and Performance of a system for turning photos into sound.

October 2014

Live Sonification of Photography was a performance / lecture at sound-art salon If Wet in of a new system for turning photographs into sound as a performance piece incorporating portrature, image manipulation and the ANS synth.

This was the culmination of a year or so’s work exploring slit-scan photography, performance photography, sonification of images and many other disparate things.

The presentation is about 25 minutes long with 10 minutes of intro, 10 minutes of demo and 5 minutes of Q&A. Thanks to Sam Underwood and David Morton for hosting.

• Documentation and photography (by George Benson) at If Wet.

References

People and subjects mentioned.

Introduction

• Slit-scan Photography – Examples
• ANS Synthesizer
• Eduard Artemyev, composer of Solaris soundtrack.
• Coil’s ANS album – Samples – Download
• Spectral Songs of the Slitscanned Selfies
• Virtual ANS synth software (Mac / Win / Linux / iOS / Android)
• Arduino Camera Shield

Demonstration

• PhonoPaper app (iOS / Android)

Questions

• Sarah Angliss
• Steve Symons, Owl Project
• Graham Dunning