Segment Yield by U-Sun

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U-Sun
U-Sun is an artist who lives in London, UK. She works collaboratively with various collectives as well as creating her own audiovisual work. She has completed studies in Sustainable Design and has a degree in Fine Arts (COFA) and a Masters of Design from the University of Technology, Sydney. U-Sun's work traverses the fields of performance and audio-visual composition. She develops instruments, objects and operations in producing open source 3d generations and micro glitch assemblages from feedback systems.

Segment Yield

Development Date: 2002
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U-Sun's work, Segment Yield is, in some ways, the most abstract work in Dots & Lines . It is comprised entirely of microscopic particles which manifest visually and sonically. These particles follow the movement of the user's cursor creating patterns of dotted lines. The simplicity of the visual system belies its metaphoric dimensions. The particles could be seen as analogous with specks of dust set into motion by the movement of the user's mouse, or iron filings drawn to the cursor by magnetism. They are microorganisms governed by strange attractors.

Musically speaking, Segment Yield is dissonant, employing abstract and often difficult sounds often in the high frequency range. Like the audio we can hear in the work, rand()% , Segment Yield is a generative audio piece. Its compositional parameters are defined by formal rules set out in the computer code used to programme it. As with rand()% , the code itself could be interpreted as the score. Equally though, in this work, the visual system U-Sun has designed to notate, or represent her sounds, could also be a rendering of the score.