David Stout, the Dallas-based visual artist, composer, and co-founder of interactive media collective NoiseFold, invites you on an inky and narrative-free adventure in his latest short film Contours and Coincidence.

“This work is a generative exploration of biomorphic forms found in the natural world. Contrasting bold graphic gestures with lilting lines and chaotic filigree, this work draws inspiration from the tradition of hand-drawn experimental films.

“The music score eschews my typical use of image sonification and synthetic sound sources, instead the work consists entirely of sounds taken from short wave, FM, and AM radio broadcasts. As such, it is both performative, in the sense of incorporating dial scanning between stations, while also being highly composed using carefully drawn envelopes to sculpt each audible moment.

“Computational media, like the pencil, is a prosthesis extending the reach of the hand, the tongue, and consciousness itself. Using generative image techniques as a form of contemporary scrying I can activate a deeper imaginal realm to play at the liminal edge of the mind’s default pattern recognition states.”
 

 
Director/animator: David Stout
Audio: David Stout