MAT256 05W
QUIET DEMO - Brian Springer - Art Studio
"If we are indeed doomed to the comically convergent task of dismantling the universe, and fabricating from its stuff an artifact called The Universe, it is reasonable to suppose that such an artifact will resemble the vaults of an endless film archive built to house, in eternal cold storage, the infinite film."
Hollis Frampton, "For A Metahistory of Film: Commonplace Notes and Hypotheses,"Circles of Confusion. Rochester, NY: Visual Studies Workshop Press, 1983, p. 113.
The Quiet Demo is an example of what a half hour of television would look like if a person only viewed the moments when the TV was quiet. I recorded 30 minutes of television and extracted the moments that the audio channel was below 30db for more than half a second. Using this formula I was able to extract 30 seconds of quietness from 30 minutes of television. These clips of quietness are played back in their original order of appearance. It is interesting to note that in this brief sampling that people of color are in the majority when TV commercials are quiet.
The Quiet Demo was manually edited using Final Cut Pro. I am currently developing a software program to extract and assemble quiet moments from television.
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