I teamed with Pierre-Marie Blind a sound designer to create a digital art piece questioning the transition between art genres.

“It is a digital art piece exploring the infra-thin limits between different paintings, slowly shifting from one to the other. Texture, perspective, granularity, color, and subject form the basis of the sound composition.”

You can visit Entre Deux Itch.io page to download it and run it yourself on Windows.

We used Unity and Wwise, along with Reaper and Live. It mainly uses one shader to manipulate the images and multiple sound layers to create the slow transition from one frame to the other.

To me it raises some interesting questions:

• How can a style evolve from impressionism to modernism?

• Is an art piece in-between two other art pieces also an art piece?

• What is a transition? Is a slow transition a transition?

The art of transitioning in itself is an extremely interesting field to study, as great experiences usually are not made of only one atomic state, but of multiple states that transition well between each others. Both the polish phase in video game production and what we call the juicy effects are about creating beautiful transition between states. Transitions are not just in-between states, they are part of the experience itself.

We imagined Entre-Deux in an exhibition, where it could take days, weeks or even months to perform a full transition:

Paintings :

  - Nuit étoilée au dessus du Rhône (1888) V. VanGogh

  - Luxe, calme, et volupté (1904) Matisse

  - Auf Weiss II (1923), Kandinsky

This project contains two short music samples originally composed and performed by Omar Nicho, and Florence Loriot, that Pierre-Marie recorded for another unrelated documentary project.

Sound Design & Audio Programmer - Pierre-Marie Blind | Visuals - Alexis Bacot
2017