Sleep No More

Here's a short excerpt from our recent two channel video 'Sleep No More'. The installation here was at the Butler Gallery in Kilkenny Castle last month. The piece takes the built in encoding of the standard DVD player and reprogrammes it in order to create a self generating work. The encoding causes the DVD player to select pairings of images and sounds according to rules based on patterns found in gene reproduction. The images, a collection of animated drawings, are then presented in infinite sequences, much like the DNA sequences at the centre of our own genetic coding.

Each time the two DVD players are set in motion, the programming generates a unique and infinite sequence of pairings. In a sense, creates a new work. The audio elements are composed of harmonic piano intervals, which are also selected by the DVD programming to create a new and unique soundtrack for each playing of the piece. In the background you hear the mechanical prepared piano of 'Gravity Loop', the cello from 'Commonwealth', and the sines of 'Some Americans'.

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