Fleshtones
2006/4.08/Stereo/Lossless Codec, Mini DV or DVD
The 19th century quest for synaesthetic colour music forms the conceptual starting point for Fleshtones, a piece for pixelated pornography and auto generated accompaniment. Footage from webcams and other online sites is broken down into a simple tableau of colour bands. Given the subject matter this palette is either predominately pink or coffee coloured thus producing a sequence of flickering fleshtones. Using the wonders of max/msp/jitter these Fleshtones are turned into lyrical piano music. A music that rises in falls in response and exact correspondence to the onscreen movement. Made especially for Youtube: 26,000 views as of March 2008. Screened at:Cog Collective, London, 2006.