WORM has co-produced a series of sound pieces for an audio installation at the Schouwburgplein in Rotterdam. The first three soundpieces are released by WORM as 12-inch on vinyl. I teamed up with Nick to create a generative design concept. This idea finally twisted into a process that involved feedback loops and mangling digital images, mimicking the processes these musicians use for their pieces.
First we built a scanner (Arduino) that is able to scan 1 pixel. We thought to then start scanning stuff by hand, but this resulted in meaningless data. So we wrote a program in Processing that ‘reads’ a digital image pixel by pixel, and sends it out onto a specific area on a monitor.
This area is continually scanned by our pixel scanner, and the scanned pixel is placed back onto a grid. This way an image immerged with certain errors, like color interpretations of the scanner, and a delay caused by the monitor.
Interestingly, we used black and white ‘source’ images, the colors that came out were actually produced by the scanner, and were further enhanced in photoshop.
