Interloops in audiovisual works

This portfolio presents eight original audiovisual works, plus six experimental studies that fed into their creation, alongside a written commentary that articulates the research that formed and manifests in the works. These artworks include elements of various forms of sound and visual art practices, including film, sculpture, music and sound, as well as incorporating processes of performance, installation and recordings. Aiming to achieve a balance and integration of the audio and the visual, they explore various possible forms of audiovisual coherences. Overall, through creative practice research and its critical discussion, the portfolio examines interrelationships between sound and image. It configures these as a process of audiovisual looping, here termed an ‘interloop’, in which each element continually affects the other, extending out towards the audience and the space of reception, and feeding back into the work itself. A form of conversation between the audio and visual elements is therefore established: an on- going dialogue aimed at achieving a sense of synchronicity in the presentation of audiovisual works. The works in the portfolio are presented as fixed medium video, live performance documentations, web and software applications, sound sculpture, and scores. The portfolio submission and commentary are also available online (hidden link) at https://sites.google.com/view/lq-phd/