Samuel James.
SIFT RAM MEM
Audio Visual installation at Bloc Projects Sheffield, 71 Eyre Lane. How do we keep hold of our memories? Opening night Wednesday 18th December 5-7:30pm inc donations Bar, Thursday 19th December 10-5. Come along, connect, and experience something new. Samuel James, Ruby Florence.
Biography
Samuel James is an emerging audio visual artist currently studying in his final year of Film and Media Production at Sheffield Hallam University. With a keen interest in providing rich audio visual lasting experiences, moreover exploring the way in which we interact with our own environment. He takes an experimental approach to both narrative and non-narrative films, creating and manipulating sensory information. For his major final project Samuel James is creating an ambitious installation piece, based upon the natural phenomena camera obscura, mixing the mediums of projected image and sculpture with a rich immersive soundscape.
Treatment
How do we keep hold of our memories? Approaching the brief as a rhetorical question SIFT RAM MEM will cover the forms of both digital and human memory through an audio-visual installation. Entering into the gallery, you are presented with a dark dimly lit space, a large illuminated paper cube sits floating on a bed of light in the centre of the room, tied down with pieces of string, debris spreading outwards. Images of desolate landscapes with interference will be projected through the paper walls from the inside of the cube. There will be a rich diverse soundscape which will evolve from chaos and confusion into moments of clarity, before shifting the source of the sound from outside to the inside of the cube, as thoughts and expressions bubble out from the consciousness. Juxtapositions will form between the visual and sound elements interplayed with moments of harmony, conveying a complex narrative.
Visual Image
The projection on projector 1 will show static bleak landscapes, and on projector 2 flowing water from different rivers, representing the river of consciousness, ever flowing, creating an omnipresence. The image will be independent to the sound design, with the aim of creating a “third eye” throughout the whole piece. However, there will be seeming moments of harmony, uniting both sound and image, before flowing into juxtapositions.
Sound Style
The rich dynamic sound design will form a major part of the installation, with a combination of human and digital sounds exploring the relationship between the way memories are stored mentally within the human psyche and digitally, through the internet and digital media devices. There will be two sound pieces, one playing outside the box and one playing inside the box, as clarity begins to form within the outside space, thoughts, memories and expressions begin to bubble up from the internal sound design. Creating a complex narrative of dynamic range, flowing from periods of calm, representing clarity of thought, before delving into areas of chaos and confusion.
