Linoleum bitmap experiment- ''A lousy Day''
(last edited: 2025)
author(s): MARTEN PREI
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A lousy day is a colorful experiment seeking to translate a digitally constructed photo collage into the material world through a traditional printmaking technique. The project's aim is to see how a step-by-step process, through manual labor, with all its human errors and monotonous replication can slightly alter the visible properties of a previously digital image. As if some tiny mistakes were analogue glitches added to an otherwise virtual visual abstraction. The image of the print itself is built up in the CMYK color channel system which has been separated into four different bitmap layers. Each segmented and cut into linoleum plates, later printed together. Resulting in a second observation of how well a low resolution mass of pixels could be brought to the naturally observable world, yet staying with its comparatively cold and calculated precision. A bridge between technological and physical practices.
Representing Birdsong in Messiaen's Organ Music [Representing Birdsong in Messiaens Organ Music - 2020-05-15 09:13]
(last edited: 2020)
author(s): J.P.T. Lanooy
This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
Birdsong plays an important part within the complete oeuvre of Olivier Messiaen. In the majority of his works, he incorporated songs and calls of real-life birds. In this exposition, the accuracy of those bird incorporations is investigated through analyzing two birds of the 'Communion' of the 'Messe de la Pentecôte': the blackbird and nightingale, In other words, to what extent Messiaen's 'musical' birds correspond to their real-life counterparts? Besides, I have discussed how to represent those birds on a Dutch eighteenth-century organ and which compromises you have to make with regard to organ stops.