(I've been away for a while. So here's my test of this blogging feature.)
How long a movie can you make, with ten seconds of film?
First, the two obvious answers:
1) Ten seconds long
2) Infinitely long
But the problem with #2 is that loop art is essentially tragic in nature, because the experience ends with the audience's decision to stop, not the artist's.
So what's the maximum finite length of a movie you can make, with ten seconds of film?
(Or in the current web video age, ten seconds of video frames, which let's arbitrarily put at 150 frames, assuming 15 frames per second.)
I've been wanting to do something with three rectangles in-frame all the time, and they're all moving downward in the frame. By the end of the movie, each rectangle's position is just slightly above where the next lower rectangle's position was at the start of the movie.
So if you loop the movie, it all looks smooth: Rectangles drifting downward.
Now, take a move thirty seconds long, and chop it into three equal pieces. Put one piece of the movie into each of the three rectangles, so that if you loop the movie and start watching the top rectangle at the beginning, you'll see a thirty second long movie.
That's not currently possible as a quick copy-n-paste operation for most peoples' software arsenals, but it's a simple concept and it is doable. (One notion I have is to do it in Blender, a 3D renderer and animator. I'd project the movie onto one side of a brick or something.)
Now, the music could do something similar. A high lead catches your ear right off, then meanders downward to become a bass pulse (as another copy of the lead plays) and that sound morphs into percussion (as the other lead has, in turn morphed into a bass pulse and another lead has come into play.)
Sort of a wordless Row, Row, Row Your Transmogrifying Boat, but with a cool jazz feel.
