Francesc Marti

Speech 2

Type: Audio-visual

Format: 1080p, stereo

Duration: 7'54''

Speech 2 is an experimental audiovisual piece created from a series of old clips from the US broadcast public affairs interview program The Open Mind. This piece is reflection on the action of communicating, highlighting its limitations, and can be labelled as “text-sound-art” in an audio-visual framework.

Technically, in this piece the author has been experimenting how granular sound synthesis techniques and pseudorandom number generator algorithms can be used for audio-visual creative works. The original movies are cut, mixed, manipulated and reassembled, generating new images and sonorities. No other sound samples or images have been used to create the final result.

Vacuum

Type: Audio-visual

Format: 1080p, stereo

Duration: 8'11''

Quantum fluctuation is the temporary appearance of energetic particles out of nothing, as allowed by the Uncertainty Principle. Vacuum genesis is a scientific hypothesis that questions whether the universe began as a single particle arising from an absolute vacuum.

Vacuum explores the concept of audio-visual sampling, in which real-world images and sounds are cut, mixed, manipulated and reassembled in order to generate new audio-visual materials. In this piece, all the images and souns are based in over 500 very short clips from Andrei Tarkovsky films.

Francesc Martí is a mathematician, computer scientist, composer, sound and digital media artist born in Barcelona and currently living in the UK. He has a bachelor’s degree in Mathematics from the Autonomous University of Barcelona; two master’s degrees, in Digital Arts, and in Computer Programming; and a PhD from De Montfort University (UK) in new media art. In 2014 he starts his project “Granular synthesis video”, with which he has already participated in more than 80 exhibitions and concerts in over 18 countries.