Audio – Niall Flaherty

This is an audio piece derived from Rene Magritte’s famous surreallist painting, ‘The Betrayal of Images’, (Oil on Canvas, 1929). Magritte’s Pipe, that is not a pipe but an image of a pipe, is represented not by an image but by the sound loop digitally generated from that image. The referenced still image is discarded. […]

Cinema is the dominant media of contemporary visual culture. Room-tone is cinema’s term for the recording of background noise of a scene when shot on location, the recording of a space in silence. Also called Atmos (short for ‘Atmospheric Sound’) it’s used to provide a sound loop that can be composited with the rest of […]