© 2025 Matthew Collings / Designed By Elin Svennberg
© 2025 Matthew Collings / Designed By Elin Svennberg
© 2025 Matthew Collings / Designed By Elin Svennberg
© 2025 Matthew Collings / Designed By Elin Svennberg
© 2025 Matthew Collings / Designed By Elin Svennberg
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THIRD MIND
Installation & Live Performance | 2013
Third Mind premiered at CCA Glasgow and received an Alt-W Award from New Media Scotland
Created by composer Matthew Collings and visual artist Erik Parr, Third Mind is an interactive audio-visual app, performance and installation that explores the idea of algorithmic cinema.
The project is an interactive space that combines cinema, music, foley and performance. It features Matthew (guitar, electronics, prepared amplifier, live foley), Erik (visual processing) and Christos Michalakos (percussion, electronics).
Developed with support from New Media Scotland and Cryptic
A multi-projection video installation combined with live musical performance. Inspired by the idea of a film that never ends, the piece abstracts elements of cinema into immersive formal experiences.
A custom software system generatively controls the video and sound composition in real-time, each changing its content in response to the other.
During the performance, multiple video projections respond to live musical performance in a hypnotic exploration of motion and sound.
"A strange and quite stimulating thing… a digitally-distressed garble ricocheting around our heads in surround sound… until image and audio were a hypnotic blur"
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- The Scotsman
