MYSTERY STREET

MYSTERY STREET This piece is a sixteen minute long sequence of images derived from digitized video and still photographs that have been edited in the Macromedia Director environment to create a flow of visual imagery with what might be termed visual counterpoint. This has been achieved by using overlapping matricies of pictures to amplify and extend meaning.

Visual complexities have been woven in with varied cultural references to create an allegorical MYSTERY STREET, that symbolizes aspects of contemporary life in these times. A variety of events, circumstances, relationships are encountered to evoke the sense of celebration, excess, desperation and mystery.

The sound track was created with digitized sound from video and original music created on digital instruments using MIDI devices. The entire piece has been placed on an 80 megabyte hard drive that operates the piece in realtime.

Technical information: Software utilized for realization of the piece include, Photoshop, Director, RasterOps videocapture software, and Vision MIDI sequencer.

Hardware included the following: Macintosh IIfx, RasterOps 364, Microtek 300Z scanner, Macrecorder (audio digitizer), Yamaha DX-7s, Yamaha TX81Z, Yamaha TX16W (synthesizers), Alesis Quadraverb (sound processor) and Casio RZ-1 (drum machine).

Thomas Porett © 1996

There are three additional pages of images from MYSTERY STREET

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