Tim Wright
8 Switches
USB Flash drive (E123)
Mac/PC compatible
With 8 Switches, Tim Wright presents six black-and-white
microcinematic vignettes of retina-searing, hard-edged,
epilepsy-inducing sound and vision; digital hallucinations
drained of colour, synchronized to a soundtrack that is
relentless and unsentimental. Each new section presents
a variation on the same sleek, kinetic minimalism. As each
section progresses, the razor-sharp line between a host
of binary oppositions—black/white, figure/ground, silence/
sound, here/there, on/off — dissolves through sheer
velocity. The rapid-fire alternation between these binary
oppositions acts like the flicker of film frames, accelerating
until sound and sight are wed into a synchronous whole
in which neither the visual nor the sonic takes primacy.
Instead, each acts as mutually constitutive literalisation
of the other. As the distance from eye to ear collapses,
the distinction between the immediacy of one’s physical
sensation and its ghostly afterimage — those traces left
on blistered corneas and eardrums and optic nerves and
neurons — can no longer be maintained. Staccato pin-
pricks of light and frequency fuse into a single synesthetic
object and single overwhelming experience.
— Joseph Clayton Mills
Tim Wright is a musician, composer and video artist
based in York, England. He is perhaps best known as
a producer of electronic dance music released under
his own name and the pseudonyms Tube Jerk and
Germ. Tim currently works as a sound engineer and
composer with Japanese choreographer Saburo
Teshigawara and Karas. In recent years Tim’s focus
has been on exploring algorithmic approaches to
audio-visual composition.