Drum Mask video

Video on DVD with surround sound, duration 7 mins 4 secs (2009)

Program note

Drum Mask is an abstract animation, based on the vibrations of an idealised drum.

At the start of the video the drum has just been struck with a circular mallet, at the lower left of the screen. We then see a cross-section of the resulting vibration, in slow motion. The vibration is the result of the interaction of many different modes of vibration. Each mode has its own characteristic pitch, and we hear a kind of cross-section of these pitches.

The piece was created by software written by Gordon Monro.

Still images

Three stills from the video. Click on the small images below for enlarged versions.

High-resolution images made by the same process can be found on the page for Cloud Drum and Drum Mask prints.

Video

Performances, etc.

In the Metasonic season of audio and video installations presented as part of Liquid Architecture 10 by Cajid Media at Dudley House, Bendigo, 9-25 July 2009.
Shown as part of the biotope show (works from the Centre for Electronic Media Art, Monash University) in Cube 37, the street display area of the Frankston Arts Centre, Frankston, Melbourne, July 13 and 23 and 5 August 2009.

This work by Gordon Monro is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 Australia Licence.

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