Path to Abstraction
by Quayola (Digicult, +39)

Quayola is a London based multimedia artist / graphic designer. His work in videos, installations, live performances and prints, have lead him to collaborate with the likes of Onedotzero, Warp, MTV, Lovebytes, Mira Calix and D-Fuse. He has recently won the MTV-Bloom talent competition and together with HFR-LAB will tour Australia, China and Japan with a retrospective exhibition produced by IDAP.

Path to Abstraction is video project that explores the relationships between sound and image, inspired by the true representation of sound itself: the waveform. It combines two different ways of interpreting the music, the analytical one of computers with the intuitive and personal of human beings. The process behind the videos is divided into two main stages: the first consist in the analytical representation of a given audio track through a digital oscilloscope. The second stage is my personal reinterpretation of the achieved waveform through animated graphics. The results of this process are a series of videos that, while having a similar behaviour of a sound wave, interpret the music in a very personal way.

• – Quayola website
• – hfr-lab website