Aquatint

Live audiovisual event. Duration: 30 to 70 minutes. Venue: single screen/ cinema. Music & Imagery Overlap. Overlap have developed a style outside film, TV and video art - a way of abstracting and combining imagery that has a musical or painterly logic rather than a narrative based or conceptual one. A visual take on serialism - wallpaper with conceits. Recent works explore the relationship between still and moving imagery through systems of implied motion within transitions, use of discreet picture planes and obscuration techniques. The view is in movie time but limited to flat photographic space, through a perceptual keyhole more akin to memories and dreams. Experiments with sound and image are distilled into single screen pieces - Lazy Wave, Cloud Edged, Forest Tree, Returning - forming useful components for live mixing, audiovisual polyphonies for installations and performances. Aquatint is a mesmeric dance of shapes, lights and abstract imagery on the cusp of the recognizable, reflecting the emotional response we experience in powerful natural environments. Atmospheric, complex, sensual and earthy, yet delivered through a systematic patterning within a synthetic void. In a world of ubiquitous, immediately interpret-able imagery and information, perhaps a crucial purpose for abstraction is a kind of universal yet personal sensory mapping. Whilst referencing a traditional art form through painterly, processed delivery, Aquatint is at once romantic and analytical, closer to memories and dreams than cinema: prompting thoughts about portrayals of beauty and the quasi-religious reverence that landscape can trigger. Elemental, technological, dramatised, abstraction.