Bob Snyder: Sound and Video 1975-1990
Bob Snyder
A compilation of works by Bob Snyder, remarkable for their formal elegance, conceptual scope and sensual lusciousness.
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This tape exemplifies Snyder’s early experiments with the image processor. Articulated patterns of alternating wavelength and amplitude of both sound and light are arranged to produce abstract…
Collections: Early Video Art, Single TitlesTags: Chicago Art, Music, Video History
Using the image processor as it was intended as a performance instrument, Icron exploits the processor’s real-time capabilities: the image and soundtrack were generated through simultaneous…
Collections: Early Video Art, Single TitlesTags: Chicago Art, Image Processing, Music, Video History
Lines of Force opens with footage of a dramatic explosion. For most of the piece, the screen is divided, into a triptych at first, and slowly into horizontal and vertical bars. Electronically…
Collections: Early Video Art, Single TitlesTags: Chicago Art, Image Processing, Video History
This tape deviates from the more purely formal investigations of Snyder’s earlier work; it has no soundtrack and uses camera images exclusively. Employing Quantel digital effects and editing…
Collections: Early Video Art, Single TitlesTags: Architecture, Chicago Art, Image Processing
[This] is my first attempt to construct a video piece using one set of generative intervals for both sound and color. All of the color in the piece is orchestrated in brightness ‘octaves’…
Collections: Early Video Art, Single TitlesTags: Chicago Art, Consumer culture, Music
In this video diptych, Snyder uses image and music to depict opposing forces in semi-abstract terms. Exploring processes of fracture and permutation, Hard and Flexible Music contrasts two groups of…
Collections: Single TitlesTags: Chicago Art, Music