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The chaotic process is generated by a chain - video camera/computer/monitor - locked in an digital-analog video-feedback. Real time sounds generation is based on image analysis. The mapping between audio and video domains using perceptual features related to the colors and intensity. A computer equipped with a special video board allows for real time grabbing of camera images, LUT based transformations and real time rendering on the monitor and drive the chaotic fluctuations. Image analysis is carried out in real time to feed an external sound synthesis machine.
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Vid-A-Feeba is a play with a chaotic process applied to the generation of artistic images and sounds. The images follow the iterated evolution typical of chaotic systems showing quick change in the visual patterns depending on the bifurcation points. The sound is deeply connected with the image changes so the visual bifurcation correspond to the sounds bifurcation.
Manipulating the process parameters, we move gradually the system near the edge of the chaos (zone rich of bifurcation and resonance). The interaction of the people allows the installation "to live". The movement inserts disturbances that move the system through ordered of highly chaotic situations. The sound melody reflects colors and dynamics and the emergence of new patterns. After a while, it is natural for the interacting people to push the system towards strong creative conditions located at the edge of chaos.
These situations are the most interesting for the great creative potential connected with the emerging of image and sound shapes from the disorder (total chaos) or from the obsessive repetition of the same patterns (order). Like the birth of a genial idea, the artwork changes and re-creates itself in a dynamic way. The way of the life around - and inside - us.
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