AV Clash

Blogpost from www.videojackstudios.com,

AV Clash is a Web-based project by Video Jack (André Carrilho and Nuno Correia, with Gokce Taskan), which allows for the creation of audiovisual compositions, consisting of combinations of sound and audio-reactive animation loops.

AV Clash is composed of 4 audiovisual "objects", which enable playback and manipulation of four different loops of sound and audio-reactive visuals. Objects can be dragged and thrown, creating interactions (clashes) between them.

The sounds in AV Clash are retrieved from Freesound.org, an online sound database. Users can change which 4 sound and animation loops are contained in each of the units, from a large variety of options. On an initial level, AV Clash facilitates playfulness, discovery and randomness. But it also offers the possibility of going deeper into each object, customizing its sounds and animations. With AV Clash, Video Jack develop further concepts explored in their previous project AVOL – AudioVisual OnLine (2007).

AV Clash is a Video Jack project, by André Carrilho (animation / graphic design), Nuno Correia (interaction design) and Gokce Taskan (programming).

AV Clash was inspired by the work of visual music pioneers such as Oskar Fischinger, John Whitney and Norman McLaren; early computer games; and more recent works such as Toshio Iwai’s Electroplankton, IXI software, Tuomo Tarkiainen’s Audiotarium, Reactable, and Freesound Radio.

Video Jack would like to thank the developers of Freesound.org and its community of sound enthusiasts.