Tara Rodgers
sound + video projects:
Resolutions: Self-Portraits with Sonified Pixel Data (2008, in progress)
Self-portraits with digital photographs used as musical score. Data from each pixel are "spoken" by a recording of my voice.
Three Sonic Panoramas: Vancouver, BC (2007)
Panoramic portraits of a city, with color information converted to quadraphonic sound.
Butterfly Effects (2006)
A generative computer music composition derived from behavioral aspects and ecosystem dynamics of migratory monarch butterflies, and inspired by the butterfly effect concept of chaos theory.
Butterfly Ecosystem (2005)
An instructional score for an ensemble of improvising musicians, based on environmental conditions and behavioral aspects of migrating butterflies.
20 Largest State-to-State Migration Flows (Source: U.S. Census Data) (2006)
A series of compositions that render large-scale patterns of movement from U.S. census data in oscillating audiovisual signals.
Places I've Lived & Traveled To, 1973-2005 (2005)
An audiovisual composition tracking my movement patterns throughout life, based on memories of living and travel.
Unspeakable Items (2003)
An audio collage in which Mac computer voices speak about gender and technology.
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