Bob Snyder: Sound and Video 1975-1990
00:54:00 | 1 DVD
Collection: Single Artist Compilations
Tags: Chicago Art, Music
A compilation of works by Bob Snyder, remarkable for their formal elegance, conceptual scope and sensual lusciousness.
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This tape exemplifies Snyder’s early experiments with the image processor. Articulated patterns of alternating wavelength and amplitude of both sound and light are arranged to produce abstract compositions. Voltages processed by an Emu sound...
Collection: Early Video Art, Single Titles Tags: chicago art, music, video history |
Using the image processor as it was intended as a performance instrument, Icron exploits the processor’s real-time capabilities: the image and soundtrack were generated through simultaneous improvisation, although the color was added...
Collection: Early Video Art, Single Titles Tags: chicago art, image processing, music, video history |
Lines of Force opens with footage of a dramatic explosion. For most of the piece, the screen is divided, into a triptych at first, and slowly into horizontal and vertical bars. Electronically manipulated footage shows a man walking, a...
Collection: Early Video Art, Single Titles Tags: chicago art, image processing, video history |
This tape deviates from the more purely formal investigations of Snyder’s earlier work; it has no soundtrack and uses camera images exclusively. Employing Quantel digital effects and editing procedures, a novelty in video post-production at the...
Collection: Early Video Art, Single Titles Tags: architecture, chicago art, image processing |
[This] is my first attempt to construct a video piece using one set of generative intervals for both sound and color. All of the color in the piece is orchestrated in brightness ‘octaves’ corresponding to the registration of the pitches in the...
Collection: Early Video Art, Single Titles Tags: chicago art, consumer culture, music |
In this video diptych, Snyder uses image and music to depict opposing forces in semi-abstract terms. Exploring processes of fracture and permutation, Hard and Flexible Music contrasts two groups of images, gridded architectural...
Collection: Single Titles Tags: chicago art, music |
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