Bob Snyder: Sound and Video 1975-1990

Bob Snyder

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Collection: Single Artist Compilations

A compilation of works by Bob Snyder, remarkable for their formal elegance, conceptual scope and sensual lusciousness.

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Bob Snyder

Winter Notebook

1975 | 00:06:00

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 Titles
Tags: Chicago Art, Music, Video History

Bob Snyder

Icron

1978 | 00:11:00

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 Titles
Tags: Chicago Art, Image Processing, Music, Video History

Bob Snyder

Lines of Force

1979 | 00:10:00

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 Titles
Tags: Chicago Art, Image Processing, Video History

Bob Snyder

Trim Subdivisions

1981 | 00:06:00

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 Titles
Tags: Architecture, Chicago Art, Image Processing

Bob Snyder

Spectral Brands

1984 | 00:15:00

[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 Titles
Tags: Chicago Art, Consumer culture, Music

Bob Snyder

Hard and Flexible Music

1988 | 00:06:00

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 Titles
Tags: Chicago Art, Music

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Bob Snyder: Sound and Video 1975-1990

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