Clay Chaplin | Sound • Improvisation • Video • Recording

Side Effects (2011 – present)

Side Effects is a series of short audio-visual improvisations that I call digital meditations. Each improvisation utilizes a feedback structure in the software where the audio and video signals influence the abstraction of each other creating an infinite palette of performance possibilities. For the performance of the piece anywhere from eight to fifteen of the short improvisations are chosen and presented without pause. The piece as a whole can be thought of as a series of meditations that are to be taken in without narrative or implied meaning.

Side Efects premiered at the Raflost music and digital media festival in Reykjavik, Iceland on May 6th, 2011. A second performance was given on June 4th, 2011 at the Decay Festival at Beyond Baroque in Los Angeles.

Side Effects – Decay Festival Performance on June 4th, 2011

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The videos below are only a few of the individual digital meditations and they were some of the first ones I recorded. There are now many to choose from!

Side Effects No. 6

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Side Effects No. 1

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Side Effects No. 3

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Side Effects No. 2

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