Pushing Light Through a Darkened Palette

. . . is my entry for Earmaginations, a call for silent movies for SoundPedro 2019, a Sound Art exhibit on June 1st, 2019 at Angeles Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro, CA

 . . is a visualization of the Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response (ASMR).

. . . is a set of short looping silent animations (GIFS) using the animation technique of Color Cycling (a.k.a. Palette Animation) to step white, and sometimes bright colors, through the histogram of an image. On screen, this looks like a thin band of light scanning the surface of the framed object and mimics the reported characteristic of a tingling sensation moving down the back of the neck and upper arms.

. . .  uses the following common triggers and technology of ASMR to try and induce a low-grade euphoria that its viewers may find to be a beneficial therapeutic experience.

1. FIZZ ; Water; from Tiny Bubbles to Glacials

2. BUZZ   Hair;  From High 'N Tight to Microscopic
    a. In the Barber's Chair

    b. Playing with Long Hair

    c. Inner-Ear Hair Cell

from Music for the Deaf, 2006, MTV2

3. HISS PURR;   The Microphone and Binaural Recordings

source images from Paris Hilton Explores ASMR

HD Screen Captures as Wallpaper

This image was made by compositing frames from 3 different moments in the 20-second title-sequence.

I see a smiling woman in a white turban and the head of a creature from Sendak’s Wild Things in this screen capture from the Buzz sequence. What do you see?

Another Wild Thing from Buzz.                         

This frame is from Hiss Purr, the sequence about the technology and techniques of ASMR.  The sequence title sounds like "whisper;" - a common technique to triggering ASMR,

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For 15 years as a Research Artist at the University of Southern California, Kurosh ValaNejad helped develop a wide range of well-meaning computer applications - on topics which include immunology, democracy, cultural sensitivity, and spiritual enlightenment. He has collaborated with artists and scientists in a variety of disciplines including land-planning, architecture, installation, animation, virtual reality, artificial intelligence, and video games. By continually changing the field to which he applies his computer-graphics skills, Kurosh's work matures while he maintains the enthusiasm of an amateur.


* In this illustration of Kurosh, Lisl Steiner's quick crude sketch of hi-tech electronics captures Kurosh's sensibility of combining analog and digital techniques in media-making.

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