I haven't done new mosaics in a while but I had the idea to try images of text.
I used a tiny, old, english-language bible for this mosaic, sorting "darkness" from left to right.
This one is from an old, german-language art dictionary I picked up at a yard sale years ago.
More mosaics here and <a href=https://www.flickr.com/photos/31382652@N00/albums/72157684474997934/">here.
I made another chapbook of algorithmic drawings. This one is based on the idea of connecting midpoints of line segments, with different starting line segments and different conditions on angles and segment lengths. Send me your mailing address and I'll mail a copy to you!
I ran across a sidewalk nicely covered with fallen cherry tree blossoms, took a picture and made this mosaic with code I wrote years ago and have used many times.
More examples of this technique here.
A new video experiment inspired by work of Conor Lawless (https://vimeo.com/1045788384) with color.
This is a scan of an image, row by row, with the colors converted to disks whose positions are determined by the colors and the size is determined by how prevalent the color is in that row. Probably will experiment with using this method for sound compositions, but this one's silent.
I've finished a new chapbook/zine of drawings made using variations of code that I wrote. Let me know if you would like one and I'll mail it to you!
I just released a new video piece. I called it INK because there's a lot of ink in the video and "Ink" looks so small. Sounds composed with Csound using a python script I wrote to analyze the individual frames of the video. A big screen is recommended (I use the Vimeo app on an Apple TV to watch my videos on my television).
INK from Matthew Conroy on Vimeo.
I put together this chapbook of drawings I've made using code I wrote over the last few years. I've been printing it at home and staple binding it. I'm pleased with the results, and have mailed a number of them to people. Get in touch if you'd like to have one, I'd be happy to send one to you.
A new video piece. Premiered at BEAMS Together Apart III show on November 26, 2022.
A bit of a noisy piece. I used the pixels in a self-portrait under circles to create the sound: each circle makes a short sound "loop". The image changes periodically via various filters, and this changes the sound.
I've had the idea to do this kind of thing for a long time, so I'm glad to have it done.
A short video. I walked back and forth in front of the camera many times, and then I sorted the frames of the video based on the position of my red hat. The audio is a short guitar bit I recorded, cut into pieces; the pieces were looped to created a bunch of layers of sound. The stereo effect is created by delaying the two channels of each piece by varying amounts, rather than the more standard amplitude difference method.
I had intended to make the audio the same way as the video: do a stereo recording (using a stereo mic setup) of some sounds moving back and forth, then cut up the sound into piece and sort by "leftness". I figured out how to measure the "lag" between two signals, but it was too short, and didn't actually correlate with the stereo position very well. I'll have to try it again with a pair of fairly widely separated microphones so the lag is a little larger.
Trying out polygon subdivisions of a rectangle. Lots of variations possible.
