Jiggery Pokery
2005
In which digital jiggery pokery causes a picture to dance to the music. This piece is an investigation of two pet Psouper themes namely, the relationship between the still and moving image and how sound and image can be inter-connected. The music on the soundtrack is a variation on a traditional jig. The jig was recorded with midi and the notes were then used to control the parameters of how the still image was distorted (stretched and twirled). Each distortion is thus not only in time but accented by the lilt of the jig. The idea was to distort the bodies of the dancers in a way that was reminiscent of the steps in highland dancing thereby creating an illusion of dancing to the music.
Screened as part of One Minute Programme at: cogcollective, London (2007), Contact Theatre, Manchester (2007) NoD, Prague (2007) Directors Lounge, Berlin (2008), Memorial Art Gallery, Hastings (2009).