The View
January 2002
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The View was filmed on location at an industrial site near Murrayfield in Edinburgh. The visual subject of the film is a monolithic building that was used to store alcohol before being registered for tax. At its location near other industrial buildings, shopping, residential and countryside areas, the dark walls covered in lichen and the residue of thirty years rain, the building emanates an awesome, awkward presence but it is unfortunate that it is scheduled for demolition at the end of 2004.

View a short clip below;

However, The View is not a work about the location, state or purpose of the building, nor a social comment or historical documentary; instead it is piece of 'video music' that uses the building as an abstract visual starting point for play with dynamics between sound and image.

Rather like concrete music, where sound is manipulated in the studio to form a composition, here a sequence of photographs of the building's walls have been processed to enhance and exaggerate the details. The image is rarely still and the roving eye of the camera works both in counterpoint and coincidence with the sound you hear. Whilst the visuals are sourced from the real world, the sound is purely synthesized pushing the scene further into abstraction.

The video was processed using Adobe Premiere (version 6) and the audio generated in Propellerheads REASON (version 1). All camera work and sound processing by Martin Parker 2002.