Document:Q9633

Islands Of Consciousness creates an infinite movie in realtime from images that it continously retrieves randomly from flickr.com. The selection of images is not entirely random though - every image shares at least one tag with the previously loaded and due to this restriction the movie develops a stream-of-consciousness esthetic and appears to follow a narrative structure. It also develops its own rhythm - sometimes the story seems to get stuck in a thematic dead end for minutes only to escape it into some completely unexpected direction.
A very important part in this piece is the soundtrack by the Ukrainian composer Oleg Marakov. In this piece sound samples are used like notes and get randomly arranged in realtime. This means that the soundtrack will always be different and the probability for it to ever repeat are very small. Whilst playing the music directly controls and influences the flow of images and the visual effects applied to the movie.