riverrun 20 seconds was selected for performance at seensound, an international monthly festival of short films that focus on sound and vision works that emphasize inherent complementarity in sound and moving image. This audio/visual work explores potential relationships between sound, text, and image. It is built from Joyce’s Finnegans Wake and found images. Precedents to this type of exploration exist in, for example: performing arts (opera) film (sound design and score), and installation arts. Finnnegans Wake as sound art is discussed by Kostelanetz , Toop, Tubridy, et.al, and in practice by Cage. Here the first 20 seconds of a computer reading of Finnegans Wake is manipulated and affected and the resulting sounds are used first to select sections of a film and to then trigger effects on those selections. In doing this it adds more layers to the already complex relationships in the convergence of text, sound, and sight.
Martha explores the perceptual links that may be made between two ostensibly unaligned artistic works.It uses algorithmic processes to define which sections of the film "the Strange Love of Martha Ivers" and the Bach Cello Suite No 1 Prelude.