Login

Enter your username and password

Forgotten your username or password?

Your Shopping Cart

There are no items in your shopping cart.

28 November 2013

Featured video: Joyride (Rothwell/Schultz)


Featured video: Joyride (Rothwell/Schultz)

Joyride is a hand-drawn vector animation created by Alyssa Rothwell in response to Andrew Schultz's 2009 composition Ether Etude. With a visual elegance as simple as it is enchanting, Rothwell transforms the white void of the screen into a space where lines dance in rhythmic abstract formations. Concise and poetic, Joyride draws music and vision into animated movement.

Alyssa Rothwell is an artist based in Sydney, working with a range of digital and traditional fine art media to create animated artworks. She is also media production lecturer at the School of Arts & Media, University of NSW. Joyride (2012) was included in the Australian Showcase screening for the Melbourne International Animation Festival in 2012.

Andrew Schultz writes about his work: 'It's called Etude (or study) because the piece is a study on triplet motion and also a study on a phrase of music by Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 32 in C Minor, Op. 111 - the second movement, "Arietta", bars 89-102. The 'ether' of the title suggests two things - the high floating gassy ether of the sky, and the knockout gas - hence the high passage-work and the slightly wonky, unsteady character of the piece.'

Joyride from Alyssa Rothwell on Vimeo.


Further links

Andrew Schultz - AMC profile
Andrew Schultz: Ether etude - work details on AMC Online
Alyssa Rothwell - homepage


Subjects discussed by this article:


The Australian Music Centre connects people around the world to Australian composers and sound artists. By facilitating the performance, awareness and appreciation of music by these creative artists, it aims to increase their profile and the sustainability of their art form. Established in 1974, the AMC is now the leading provider of information, resources, materials and products relating to Australian new music


Comments

Be the first to share add your thoughts and opinions in response to this article.

You must login to post a comment.