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Islands Of Consciousness creates a stream-of-consciousness movie in realtime from images downloaded from
flickr.com which get manipulated and edited entirely random. The underlying algorithm works like a looped magnetic tape where incoming images will merge with older
materials and be influenced by the older recordings' magnetic memory.
Due to the random nature of its making the piece usually needs a few minutes to accumulate enough material in order to show its full potential.
The stream of images starts with some random image has just been added to flickr and continues by following the trail of tags the images themselves create. Each image downloaded tries to share at least one tag with the previous one. This rule leads to varying rhythms in the narrative - sometimes the story seems to get stuck for minutes in a thematic dead end but then suddenly it wanders off into a completely different direction.
All camera pans, blends, effects and glitches are induced randomly and also influenced by Oleg Marakov's soundtrack which is in itself randomly arranged from a library of sound samples and melodic elements. The samples are used like notes and are therefore prepared in different lengths. Also the pauses in between the notes are part of the composition.