Personal Affiliation to Sound and Image
My personal affiliation started in my childhood, learning the guitar and drums and early on developing a love for movies, recreating props with my grandpa, together with my brothers and cousins. Later in my young adulthood, I began listening to techno music and attending raves as my brother started DJing and producing music.
With a producer and co-owner of the Curieux Dilettanti (CXD) label in my family, it became clear to me that I want to combine my passion for moving image with club culture.
Since decades, visuals are inseparable from music, starting with album covers which once defined how we imagined a band. Now, live visuals, LED walls, projection mapping, music videos and promotional media products accompanying the music further define the story and how we experience the sound. Small club VJs and large-scale festival setups have grown to be an integral part of performance culture, adding a visual layer and shaping sound itself.
This personal and cultural background forms the foundation of my research interest. It explains why my curiosity is not only directed at music or visuals individually, but at their combination and the experiences they create together.
Sources:
Faulkner, J. (2013). VJ: Audio-Visual Art and VJ Culture.
