Month: February 2023

professional futures.1

Elliot Woods 

Sound-work (field recording etc)/Audio-Visual work/Installations 

Sonic pieces- sc 

Visual pieces – yt/ gallery space (1), or not shared. 

Immersion, Evocation and ? 

Why (art)- Expression and homage  

What (playing)- Cinematography, audio-visual installation, creative sound work  

Why (medium & material)- It makes my brain move. Mentally appealing. I want people to feel things through my art, as I do with theirs.  

What (themes & patterns)- Light/Color, Ego & Indulgence vs Truth & the Natural world, continuous use of natural resource, cross modal combinations, raw instruments & old voice recordings/conversations 

Is (influence)- Sonically; Eno and Martinez. Visually; Refn, Turrell, Eliasson  

Why (unique)- the origin of idea, how it represents me, vulnerability and making sure you can see what’s behind all of it. Automatic Writing.  

What (exploration/communication)- Memory and Emotion (the triggering of), connecting dots through time (conscious and subconscious)  

Elliot Woods is an (emerging) sound and visual installation artist. The work combines practices of cinematography and synthesis/audio creation, whilst manipulating the audience’s current/apparent state of mind and the subsequent triggering of their memory & emotion. The sonic aspects of the work can be found on SoundCloud, and the visual facets are found on YouTube. Exploring the hypnotic nature of slow media, and the tranquility of ambient synthesis, the work stretches across different modes and mediums, combining camera work, moving photography/image and cinematography with modular, granular and spontaneous synthesis. While indulgently designing and filming appealing closed/open spaces, the sonic accompaniment ultimately manipulates the audiences’ thoughts and feelings toward the footage displayed. Each idea (both sonic and visual) and subsequent realization stem from a deeply personal experience, which has then been brought to life and expressed through the various mediums mentioned above.