A
sixteen page booklet is available to accompany the CD/DVD release. It is written by art historian, lecturer and writer, Sam Gathercole
and entitled
Six paragraphs on and around
Systems out of Chance
This is available for the cost of
postage and packing.
UK
Destination - £1
Rest of the World - £1.50
Systems out of Chance
‘Systems
out of Chance’ is an audiovisual installation by Craig Burston and Joe
Evans. As a graphic image maker, Craig Burston has often explored the
lost and fragmented and democratic technologies. A previous project credited
to skip-rat designs, the small press volume Talking Bread Heads, documented
the everyday and the overheard or the ‘raw lumps of thought’ that we expose
one another to. Joe Evans’ work under the name ‘runningonair’ is an amalgam
of melody, tone, mechanical rhythms, found sound and even spam e-mails. A
chance meeting and a shared interest in the imposition of systems upon the
random or chaotic has developed into their first collaboration.
Burston’s visual triptych offers a record of lost or discarded gloves
(photographs taken with the ubiquitous camera phone), textural descriptions
and an informational colour field, in reference to the dominant colours
within each photograph. Positioned so that it is impossible to view all
three depictions at once, the viewer engages with the interdependent images
whilst simultaneously experiencing the auditory interpretations, calling at
once upon immediate thoughts, memories and unspoken descriptions.
Evans’ musical triptych was written as three separate parts to be
experienced singularly or as one whole. The musical score is not simply a
soundtrack; it has an equitable co-dependent relationship with the imagery.
The first part was written via the employment of a mathematical system (the
Fibonacci sequence dictating time and notes) combined with his emotive
response to the photographs. In turn this influenced the second series of
images and the cyclic response between seen and heard resulted in three
audiovisual constructs that are equitable in status to one another.
The scored music creates the environment in which to view each piece. By
evoking sensations alluding to the melancholic, the music furthers the
emotion of the imagery. The cacophony of image and sound produces a temporal
experience, one where the viewer becomes aware of their own position within
the space.
DVDs and CDs have been made to
accompany the exhibition. The DVD includes all three video exhibits
displayed separately with their dedicated sound track and also together in
5.1 surround sound, creating a complimentary experience to the installation.
The CD includes individual and
combined versions of the music and additionally a selection of way points
from the music's creation.
The cover is designed by Craig Burston and
made by hand
on recycled card.
