“Musician and filmmaker Vijay Thillaimuthu is working right in the analog space of defunct technologies” – Jake Wilson, The Age
Vijay Thillaimuthu is an audio-visual artist and designer. In his artistic practice he creates a synaesthetic relationship between sound and video. This relationship is exemplified by the fact that what you are seeing and what you are hearing are both created by the same analogue voltage, whether it is being turned into vibrations via a speaker cone or used as a means to accelerate and deflect electrons in a cathode ray tube television or oscilloscope. His method is by modular synthesis combined with signal feedback, fed through springs via transducers, mixed with voltage rendered from video signals and so on, a system that is ever expanding like the behaviour of synaptic networks.
Vijay Thillaimuthu has performed at the Melbourne International Film Festival, the Melbourne International Jazz Festival, Liquid Architecture, What is Music, the This is Not Art festival in Newcastle and the NOW now Festival in Sydney. He has had work shown at the Australian Center For the Moving Image and an installation exhibited at the Melbourne Museum. Vijay has designed software for real-time audio visual environments by Giles Simon, has done lighting at the ABC Iwaki Auditorium and can be found doing live sound mixing at venues around Melbourne. He won an award for his soundtrack to animated film Inner Spaces and has collaborated with celebrated artists Robin Fox, Rod Cooper and Darrin Verhagen. He studied Technology Composition and Perception at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and currently works for Rutledge Engineering a company who specialise in audio visual systems. In recent years he has become a key contributor to the Handmade Music collective.
Reviews:
http://www.sensesofcinema.com/2009/festival-reports/miss-roder-miff-2008/
