Monday, September 21, 2009

Waterless Shores: Movement Two, Part One

Cognition/Recognition

Movement Two of our "Waterless Shores" series explores experiential shores, within the human psyche, mind and body.

Part one of this movement documents the cause and effect of brain wave shores, via two videos.

The first video, Plastikman's "Brain Wave" translates the patterns of brain waves via the image of two brain wave rivers, interpreted here variously as the bass and treble clefs of a musical staff, as the liminality of consciousness and experience in the human psyche, as the pathways of emotion and cognition in the neural network, or as the warp and woof of consiousness and unconsciousness.

Artist: Plastikman
Song: "Brain Waves" (Official video)

To experience the full effect of this video, turn out all the lights, and try to watch both brain waves at once.






The second video, Ivan Riche's "Wave Files", is interpreted as merging these two electrical and natural phenomena into one electroacoustic audio and visual metaphor. The filmmaker notes that one purpose of this piece is to translate patterns of waterways to brain waves. This is interpreted in Shores Philosophy as the felt resonance of an electroacoustic phenomenon, the coalescence of sensation and perception, the unconscious process of experiencing a sound or view coalescing with conscious recognition of the liminal pattern the two form when brought together.

YouTube User: Ivanriches
Video Title: "Wave Files"

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