The Portal

The Portal is a visual music composition which uses the medium of Photonality. Photonality is music and performance integrated with the properties of photography to create a visual rhythmic flow. Artist in the past, such as Kandinsky, Klee and Pollack, to name a few, have used 2 dimensional picture planes to create the feel for music. Where Photonality differs is that it uses multiple images to create a visual rhythmic composition, with one image moving into the next, the same as notes on a sheet of music. The camera acts as an additional instrument within the performance moving in,out and around an axis to record the movement of light and forms in a rhythmic dance. The 35mm format of the images has the geometric properties of the Golden Rectangle.The Golden Rectangle is believed to have been first constructed by Pythagorus in the 6th Century B.C. It is said to be one of the most visually pleasing of all geometric forms. The Pythagoreans saw the essence of the cosmos as numbers.