LUMIASONIC 4OKS

Stan Ostoja-Kotkowski used the term chromasonics to describe the transformation of sound into images in his practice. Stan also extensively explored the lumia technique in which the space between the light source and the screen is used by the artist to interpose diffractive materials. The light beam gets decomposed into different colors and trajectories, usually employed by artists to create slowly evolving colorful landscapes.

For this work dedicated to Stan, I decided to combine both techniques: I created an electroacoustic composition from sound materials collected during the years, then I used the sound signals to affect small displacements of the laser beam deflected through a piece of rough glass. I used lumia in a dynamic way, to create rhythm from fast splashes of light.

I collected several pieces of footage at different laser wavelengths and then recombined these pieces by splicing and juxtaposing the color parts I found more interesting for each moment of the sound composition.

The second part of the composition superposes direct laser beam recordings (no lumia) to the previous material. The challenge was how to merge these two different light aesthetics into one image, both functional in constructing a metaphor of time travel through deep space galaxies.

Commissioned by the Intermediale Festival Poland (https://intermediale.com/)

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