Threshold I is an audiovisual digital art object by Massimo Magee, designed to be read by the computer as both a visual still image and as a piece of audio, these being two readings of the same file. It was made with processed image data and live clarinet, shaped across visual and audio domains functionally simultaneously so that a change in the visual also affected the audio and a change in the audio also affected the visual. When you look at the visual reading, you are also seeing all of the audio data. When you listen to the audio reading, you are also hearing all of the visual data. The visual and audio readings were re-combined into a video file for this NFT.
It is half of a diptych with Threshold II.
Duration: 5min 21sec.
Created by Massimo Magee at his studio in London.