Abstractions 21:14 m HD 1080P – 16:9 | 2010 Video production, paintings and music : Thierry Gauthier Abstractions is a abstract and non-narrative sequence of audiovisual electroacoustic compositions made from digital pictures and video. The work is a suite of animated paintings. "Life" is instilled in these still images by motion, animation, layered images and music. The music is a hybrid between experimental electronic music, ambient, minimalist, repetitive and concrete. The work reflects a questioning on the stakes of this synergistic and synaesthetic art, time, space, movement, light and intensity. Reflection is also made about the meaning and reception of such work, both at the cognitive and esthetic level. The relationship between sound and images are the essence of creative project. |
Nord/Sud 25:19 m HD 1080P – 16:9 | 2010 Video production and music : Thierry Gauthier Nord/Sud is a figurative audiovisual composition who represent the nature and the survival instinct with anxiety, tension and nostalgia. The work evolves from microscopic to macroscopic and follow the links of the food chain. The images were taken during winter in Costa Rica, Mexico and Quebec. The music is made from field recording, prepared piano, bowed cymbal and synthesis. |
Animation 4:35 m HD 1080P – 16:9 | 2009 Video production and music : Thierry Gauthier Animation is a triptych of abstract animated drawings. Although the animation techniques are different, they were all created «frame by frame» (24 images per second). |
Portrait d’une femme 8:49 m HD 1080P – 16:9 | 2008 Video production and music : Thierry Gauthier Portrait of a woman is an abstract videomusic composed of close-ups and macroscopic images of a woman. The spawning heterogeneous images of the woman along with the sound/vision relationship reveal the complexity of her personality. |