Bug Sounds / Vinyl Canyon

Floris Vanhoof, 2016

Concept and realisation: Floris Vanhoof / Co-production: Werktank and Netwerk Aalst / With thanks to: Royal Museum for Central Africa / With the support of the Flemish authorities

Previously
2019 - November Music, 's Hertogenbosch (Netherlands)
2019 - Next Festival, Kortrijk (Belgium)
2017 - Centrale For Contemporary Art, Brussels (Belgium)
2017 - Bruits Blancs festival Anis Gras, Arcueil (France)
2016 - Netwerk Aalst, Aalst (Belgium)
2016 - Poor Media, Leuven (Belgium)

Floris Vanhoof looks for ways to create new images by using old media. By connecting one medium to another – not always compatible – medium, he makes his own translations of sound into image and vice versa. While doing so he does not impose his vision or idea, but he shows a curiosity as to what his work triggers. Which new perspectives arise?

“Bug Sounds / Vinyl Canyon” grew out of an experiment with cut pieces of a transparent vinyl record in a slide projector and a tusk of a beetle used as the needle of a record player. A microscope zooms in on an LP, looking for primitive forms of soundwaves. The patterns of wavy vinyl grooves are animated into new flickering rhythms with a rotating wheel. While our visual perception is overloaded, the tusk of the beetle makes for interesting distortions of the soundtrack. These repetitive sounds are in turn captured on vinyl.