Sound Design for Digital Art

Sound Design for Digital Art

Hi folks, long time no blog.

I've been pretty busy lately with travel & a new job & a variety of smaller music/audio projects, but I thought I'd highlight one in particular.

I recently worked on a sound design project for a wornderfully talented artist by the name of Talitha Balan. Talitha's work was featured in
the recent Lightwave Festival here in Tasmania, and included this pretty epic video (5m30s) + a trading card inspired by Pokémon landscapes
and some painting and calligraphy techniques of the Himalayas."

This work in particular features a repertoire of techniques including Talitha's recent handmade paintings: Mimikyu in the Bardot, Parry Creek
and Tasmanian Botanical Gardens, digitised and rendered in moving image via AI.

My contribution to this, is everything you hear - with the exception of some background ambient noises, which are actually field recordings of Talitha
working on one of her mixed media pieces. The theory behind the sound design, at least in my mind, was to create soundscapes that draw the viewer in to
artwork further, rather than being too distracting. I wanted to try to create a meditative state for the viewer to sink in to vivid colours and their
contrast to depth and darkness that each work has. In addition to that, I wanted to make use of recurring sounds, that change and evolve over time
throughout the length of the video - the same way that some of the visual cues change from one section of the video to the next.

You can see/listen to a lower res version of the video here:

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For any sound-nerds out there, the audio was primarily made in the box (for recall reasons), using Kontakt, Massive and various other soft-synths -
but with a healthy dose of field recordings and eurorack derived bass drones and glitchy effects.

To see more of Talitha's work, head over to her instagram page at: https://cargocollective.com/Talitha/

And for any digital artists out there that need sound design for their upcoming works, shoot me a message! I really enjoy working on this kind of thing!