Coda mashes up images from the amplitude and duration of audio, with the user being able to add images and tracks before creating random synchronisation to ensure unique experiences for users and audience members.
After retrieving flood-damaged photos from a domestic flood, I dried them out and discovered that when I peeled them apart, images transferred onto the other photographs. Rather than being grieved by my childhood being washed away, I was totally fascinated by the textures and chance juxtapositions of the phototransfers.
It reminded me of the medieval process of letter writing; they composed their message in ink on an ox’s skin, and then the recipient would ‘scrape’ off the message and reply. Over time, ghostly words could be seen in the layerings of forgotten messages..
I loved this idea and thought to myself, this would be great as a generative software, creating an alternative archive of images. I added sound response to activate the images. In the past few years, I produced a Desktop app and a series of mobile apps for specific projects.
iCoda: Health. I received a Tech Grant from Fuse NE to adapt iCoda concept to the Health Industry and established an Art residency at the Great North Children’s Hospital. Setting up ‘Doodle Stations’ with drawing materials so passing children could pop along and draw, create, photograph anything they wanted I then captured this and placed them in the app to screen in the MediCinema as a walk-in installation.
iCoda Archives Derby/Sunderland:
iCoda Live.
I have used Generative software for live gigs, in which the bands would send me images, I would prep them and store in the software. At the gig I turned on the ‘sound responsive’ mode and when the bands played the app reacted to the sound, mashing up images as a dynamic backdrop.
