Bio
Prism House is the ongoing composition, sound design, and performance project of New York-based musician Brian Wenner. Prism House has composed for dance, theater, multi-channel installation and digital release. He most recently debuted a collaborative dance/video piece entitled ‘Ritual’ with the dancer/choreographer Aarron Ricks in September of 2019. Prism House has been featured and reviewed by outlets such as The New York Times, VICE, The FADER, The Creators Project, and Self-titled Magazine.
About Matt O’Hare
Matt O'Hare (b. 1983, South County, RI) is a digital media artist whose work combines performance with algorithmic and generative processes to address issues of culture, technology, and systems of belief. He holds a Ph.D. in Electronic Arts from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and is currently in residence at the University of Houston within the Interdisciplinary Practice and Emerging Forms Program (IPEF).
Title: Separator
Year: 2019
Medium: Single-Channel 1080p HD Video, h264, 30fps; Audio is AAC, 320kbps
Size: 42 minutes
About: ‘Separator’ is a 42-minute collaborative audio-visual piece by sound composer Prism House and visual artist Matt O'Hare.
Utilizing chopped and manipulated audio, computer graphics, and video, ‘Separator’ is broken down into fifteen continuous movements of audio-visual interplay. The artists' intention is to realize a fragmented environment that moves between moments of extreme dissonance and harmony.
The audio content of 'Separator' relies heavily on Internet-ripped material, field recordings, and re-sampled synthesizer tones. The visual content of 'Separator' is best understood as a series of algorithmically-generated living collages that utilize a variety of found materials including architectural simulations, video game screen-captures, animations of surgical procedures, and hundreds of elements taken from Internet advertisements.
The result is a digital hallucination that rapidly oscillates between the beautiful and alienating.