Movement-image, time-image: philosophy of images, technology and their intersections in sound and visual creation.

Abstract

This article reports on the creative process behind Peça x, an acousmatic piece mirrored in visual experimentation through drawing and painting. The report is accompanied by theoretical reflections on the philosophy of images developed by Gilles Deleuze and revisited by Anne Sauvagnargues, focusing on the concepts of movement-image and time-image. Philosophy, technology, sound images, and visual images contaminate each other, outlining what is understood as the process of creating a work of art. The composition is comprehended as an agency of multiple images that collide and transform one another, structuring a rhizomatic path of creation. The visual images that accompany the text are not illustrative but constitute a non-verbal discourse parallel to words and sound. The composition is carried out as a collage, a combination and recombination of images that are cut, compressed, stretched, and superimposed. As with philosophy, technical concepts drawn from literature specifically focused on digital audio appear throughout the text, contextualizing certain procedures used, especially the technique of timestretch. The intention here, however, is not to present a technical study of these tools, but rather to demonstrate how a few resources can contain a variety of creative possibilities as well as being nourishment for poetics. The focus of the research is on the path: a ramified trajectory which goes beyond the boundaries of this text, with the constant discoveries made along the way being the driving force of the creative movement.