Acoustic Cameras

Sound annexation project

What is Acoustic Cameras?
Sound and music for live cameras, created by guest artists: composers, poets, sound artists from all countries. Acoustic Cameras was created on January 1, 2016. It is an artistic project in the form of a website (www.acousticcameras.org). To date, more than 100 international artists are participating in this project.

Who is Acoustic Cameras?
A collective of visual, sound and design artists. Its creators and members are Pierre Beloüin, Christophe Demarthe, Didier Hochart, Nicolas Ledoux and Thierry Weyd. They constitute the editorial team.

How does it work?
The invited artist chooses a camera among thousands of live webcams proposed by the editorial team. He/she composes a music and/or a sound piece for this camera. The editorial team aggregates the sound and camera and puts them online.

Which structures carry AC ?
Acoustic Cameras is co-edited by Optical Sound (Pierre Beloüin & P. Nicolas Ledoux) and La manufacture des Cactées (Didier Hochart & Thierry Weyd) on a proposal by Christophe Demarthe. Graphic design : www.abm-studio.com / Development : Didier Hochart.

ACOUSTIC CAMERAS invites composers and sound artists to annex the real-time flow of webcams located in various places around the world.

The flow of webcams is intercepted but not modified. The artist is invited to deliver a sound piece or piece of music related to this flow; This sound piece acting as a modification of reality.

The resulting work is the encounter of a recorded sound piece and the live capture of a fluctuating landscape. Depending on the season, depending on weather, depending on time of day or night, the camera sweeps continuously the filmed location (seaside, city or mountain) and writes in real time the film of the artist's music. Music or sound design, by monopolizing the filmed landscape, soon takes on a narrative, dramatic dimension, according to the principles of film music. At the slight difference that here the film is written simultaneously.

Stay tuned ! Acoustic Cameras expands continually, regularly enriched with new works of artists.

Tying Tiffany

Saint Petersburg Play Area

Saint Petersburg Play Area - Saint Petersburg - Russia

lat.: 59.8944, long.: 30.2642

About the work

When I started to work on Acoustic Cameras, I was captured by a light turn on through the window in the night time in St. Petersburg.
This is a unconventional corner of life, where you clearly can feel the contrast between textures, time flowing, different colors and human being.
A typical district as many in the world, a lot of cement and windows forming organic geometry. The interesting point is the opposite of this iconography, children play and run in the playground full of artificial colors, and it's seems time flows differently in their world, while the grey building on the background creates distorted energy.
I worked in anti phase mode on the second part of the track, fitting the sick vibe of the darks textures but at the same time the piano makes me feel in my natural habitat.

About the artist

Tying Tiffany is an artist with a music career going back to 2004 and five studio albums to her credit, she has always searched for a sincere and original approach to the various forms of art to which she has always been attracted. And for this reason she chose to attend the Art Institute which allowed her to experiment with various artistic paths from design to photography to performance art, but keeping in mind that only music permits her to reach the full expressive.
Her music mashes slinky electronics with a post-punk attitude, and the result is an insistent newwave slamdance with an unashamed pop sensibility stashed in its back pocket.
Has been all over the map straddling a range of careers. She’s gone from an electro-pop singe to one half of T.T.L, alongside producer Lorenzo Montanà, Tiffany’s composed music that’s appeared on TV shows, video games, and The Hunger Games.
From having her songs featured in the US TV show CSI and the video game FIFA ’12 to composing the original trailer music for the huge movie hit The Hunger Games.
TT’s work is never the same, she got differents projects with others moniker: Santasede (electronics, voice, acoustic instruments) with Raymond Dijkstra (acoustic instruments).
www.le-souffleur.nl

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Tying Tiffany

About the work

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