Advanced Beauty
18 Sound Sculptures

Advanced Beauty is an ongoing exploration
of digital artworks born and influenced
by sound, an ever-growing collaboration
between programmers, artists, musicians,
animators and architects.

The first collection is a series of
audio-reactive ‘video sound sculptures’.
Inspired by synasthesia, the rare, sensory
experience of seeing sound or tasting colours,
these videos are physical manifestations
of sound, sculpted by volume, pitch
or structure of the soundtrack.

The films embrace unusual video making
processes, the visual programming language
Processing, high-end audio analysis and
fluid dynamic simulations alongside intuitive
responses in traditional cell animation.
Each artist was given the same set of
parameters to work within; to start, finish
and exist within a white space, creating
a seamless coherence, all sculptures sharing
the same white environment.

Using 5:1 surround sound, the films transform
the screen into a digital canvas, how the
minimalism of a single, floating pixel can
be as engaging as the maximalism of
an intense multicoloured explosion.

Curated by design studio Universal Everything
the soundtrack by Freefarm, the music studio
of Simon Pyke (formerly recording as Freeform
on Warp and Skam)

Advanced Beauty is an international
collaboration, taking in a family of artists from
London, Russia, New York, Japan, Buenos
Aires, Glasgow to San Francisco.

This collection of films in the first in a series
of exhibitions, with upcoming commissions
for the Victoria & Albert Museum, London
and galleries in Europe, USA and Japan

Running time - 44 Minutes
NTSC DVD - 0 region with 5.1 and stereo
4 collectable covers