The relationship between visuals and sound is one that’s growing increasingly intertwined and co-dependent, providing a most welcome synaesthetic experience. But the fusion of music and imagery is quickly becoming the norm, as more and more artists collaborate to provide audiences with heightened performances.If not already, we bet that visual accompaniment will soon become a necessary component to enjoying live music, but what’s keeping it interesting and fresh is how artists choose to integrate the two mediums and what tools they use to do so.Chilean live audiovisual act OKTOPUS.TV, is one such group that works at the intersection of art, science and technology. Among their diverse body of work are a series of video compositions, which integrate music with glitchy visuals.In their project Oktopus Creatura, Ricardo Tapia Fernandez, founder of OKTOPUS.TV, and Creatura, a Chilean Dubstep DJ, unite to create an immersive environment in which audiences can take in music. In a similar vein as ODDSAC, the visual record produced by Animal Collective and Danny Perez, the Chilean duo blend sound and abstract geometric projections in a piece called LiveAct Audiovisual.OKTOPUS.TV is also performing several exciting experiments with the Kinect, an increasingly important digital art tool and a recurring topic [on our blog]( http://www.thecreatorsproject.com/search?cx=010537004534901628189%3Afengkyaj64g&cof=FORID%3A10&ie=UTF-8&q=Kinect&sa.x=0&sa.y=0 siteurl=www.thecreatorsproject.com%2Fblog%2Fthe-greatest-kinect-hacks-weve-seen-thus-far#1138). In the videos below, OKTOPUS.TV captures movements and vibrations of sound, building incredible interactive imagery.Will DJs eventually give club goers and audience members the ability to control their live visuals? It seems like OKTOPUS.TV could make this happen. Watch more of their experiments on Vimeo.
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