Transmutation 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 raw colour data, 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. This piece takes the legacies of turn-of-the-millennium electro-acoustic improvisation (aka onkyo, reductionism, etc) and noise and hurls them into a 21st century audiovisual digital reality, intertwined with the legacies of colour field painting, abstract expressionism and post-painterly abstraction.
Duration: 8 hours, 30 minutes and 13 seconds.
Created by Massimo Magee at his studio in London.