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[transforming-visual-to-audio]

The main idea of this creative research project is to explore and understand transmediation process and compose a piece not emerging from musical principles. That is to say, I seek to explore a hybridization of visual and musical processes to allow for the creation of pieces that could not be created on their own. In order to achieve this transmediation, I will explore intuitional (automatism), analytical (sonification) and hybrid approaches.

I will neither attempt to proof nor disproof the presence of unconscious in my work. The unconscious related approach and lack of intention will rather act as a catalyst for discovering new compositional approaches. By creating purely coincidental visual stimuli I am depriving myself of any intentions and associations. Of course, it could be argued that the same lack of intention could be achieved by purely musical experimentations. Yet I would suggest that in the instance of this project pen or pencil used for drawings acts as a new medium in the process of approaching music differently. I want to create drawings which are not determined by any kind of mental guidance (reason, taste, morals) what could affect my compositional approach beforehand. Visual interplays with audio on one side of ‚art coefficient’ — they aim to discover what is unintentionally expressed. Psychologists and musician Patricia Skar calls such process an active imagination, in which she describes:

‚psychic space for new patterns of thinking emerges, and also that the new conscious mind is somehow ‚tuned’ by giving outer form to material that comes out of deep structural layers of the unconsciousness’ (Skar, 2002, p.632) 

Echoing Skar’s words, artist Charlotte Hug underlines the importance of intermediating artistic practices in order to reveal such new patterns of thinking:

„The aim is not an unconditional joining of drawing and music, but the recognition of visual and acoustic ways of thinking and qualities, which accordingly generate other ideas and other worlds. Nevertheless, at certain moments they both enter into an intense symbiosis.” (Charlottehug.ch, 2018)

Therefore, in the instance of my work, it is not about the drawings themselves but rather about what the drawings allow. Hence it is not about the resultant piece itself but rather about the process leading to it. The musical composition could not exist in its form without the relationship with drawings and this is what I seek to pursue. Similarly to Hug’s work, in my project the audiovisual relationship is not a linear but rather genealogical, and transcendental, it is a space where one medium determines another. I will not try to ‘sound’ the images but rather to use them us stimuli/source for the composition. Musical composition, therefore, acts as a non-intentional continuation of the intuitional drawing process. This process will, therefore, lack any previously preconception and will require new means of expression and much more unconscious approach.