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“Immensity is an intimate dimension”
Gaston Bachelard

 

stro’ phe’ nome is a visual series produced using a gestural interface which amplifies mouse input, creating complexity out of subtle fluctuations. Vast panoramas emanate from small gestures. Trails are made visible, unseen architectures are made tangible and a typology of movement emerges.

Strophe denotes the passage in a Greek choral ode marked by a physical movement of the chorus from right to left, accompanied by a particular stanza form in the choral lyric, an instance of interwoven gesture and form. A phenome is the body of information describing a set of phenotypes for a particular species.

27 original graphics.

A study of intimate immensity.

 

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]]> http://stdio-london.com/?feed=rss2&p=348 stdio.005 http://stdio-london.com/?p=316 http://stdio-london.com/?p=316#comments Tue, 19 Jan 2010 12:33:37 +0000 admin http://stdio-london.com/?p=316 Supersurface A1-A21 is a series of graphical works produced as a study into volume, rhythm and surface. The generative graphics are composed of a field of lines subject to deformations through the placement of attractors at different points in space.

The series represents a set of spatial configurations that offer a glimpse into a large state space of potential compositions, produced through the use of 1 or 2 activators and inhibitors acting on up to 1600 line elements.

The concept of spatial order arising through activators and inhibitors comes from developmental cell biology, in which pattern creation arises out of a reaction-diffusion dynamics, first formulated by Alan Turing in his landmark paper on morphogenesis.

The term supersurface was introduced into architectural discourse by Superstudio, but has later been associated with morpho-ecological (ME) architectural practice, which seeks to enhance architecture through a greater understanding of biological and ecological form/dynamics. None of the contractile and tensile forces that accompany fabricated architecture are modeled in my constructions, leading to a weightlessness that offers greater formal possibilities.

As well as the web galleries, they are available for download in a single package below.

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]]> http://stdio-london.com/?feed=rss2&p=316 stdio.004 http://stdio-london.com/?p=8 http://stdio-london.com/?p=8#comments Tue, 31 Mar 2009 19:54:25 +0000 admin http://stdio-london.com/?p=8 Auxin is a sound work produced using principles from systems biology. Inspired by morphogenesis in cellular systems, the act of composition becomes a question of placing attractors, activators and inhibitors into a sound environment in order to cause deformations and growth patterns.

]]> http://stdio-london.com/?feed=rss2&p=8 stdio.003 http://stdio-london.com/?p=164 http://stdio-london.com/?p=164#comments Mon, 30 Mar 2009 15:21:13 +0000 admin http://stdio-london.com/?p=164 Permutopia is an assemblage of found sound — tape loops, turntable manipulations and field recordings assembled into textured compositions. Based on 6 different conceptions of utopia from throughout the ages — from techno-agrarian island idylls to anarchic moon colonies — sound is used as an evocation of new forms of living.

Taking its cues from the work of superstudio, Ursula K. Le Guin, Aldous Huxley, Ivor De Wolfe and others, the work is a tribute to past futures, richly imagined conjecture and radical transformation.

Permutopia was recorded by cacao, April-July 2009 in Hackney, London. The download comes with six original pieces of artwork.

“A stunningly beautiful piece of work…”
Drowned In Sound

“Glitches & judders work the more obviously pretty into something richer & deeper…”
Lend Me Your Ears

01 Life Without Objects 06:11
02 Kallipolis 09:18
03 For Civilia 02:33
04 Anarres 09:53
05 Circum Europa 03:15
06 Palanese 07:53
]]> http://stdio-london.com/?feed=rss2&p=164 stdio.002 http://stdio-london.com/?p=11 http://stdio-london.com/?p=11#comments Sun, 29 Mar 2009 19:54:49 +0000 admin http://stdio-london.com/?p=11 Tropisms I-VI was recorded and produced by cacao in 2008 as a series of environmental reflexes encoded in sound. The six compositions look to biological form to express states, the term tropism referring to the directional reaction of biological organisms to stimuli.

The project started out as a re-reading of Nathalie Sarraute’s 1939 collection of vignettes of the same name, which sought to re-establish relationships between the biological and the psychological in literature, describing inner movements of the mind as physical phenomena.

01 Tropism I 07:06
02 Tropism II 08:55
03 Tropism III 06:35
04 Tropism IV 04:01
05 Tropism V 06:31
06 Tropism VI 12:52
]]> http://stdio-london.com/?feed=rss2&p=11 stdio.001 http://stdio-london.com/?p=144 http://stdio-london.com/?p=144#comments Thu, 19 Mar 2009 20:18:09 +0000 admin http://stdio-london.com/?p=144 The stdio logotype is one of over 30 musical notation symbols used in Ancient Greece. Each of these were capable of communicating note pitch and duration for vocal & instrumental music over 2,500 years ago. The logo is utf-8 compliant: Its code is 1D235. You can download it in vector & raster formats below.

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