N.O.Y! : A Train Line to an Ocean.
Produced by Daniel Jones
Directed by Tom Moore
A Train Line to an Ocean is a computer program that creates a sound
and visual presentation.
Not Over Yet 99 feat. Grace by Planet Perfecto has, like much euphoric
trance, a passage where it gets calm and floaty before it regains pace
and force. It is this transitionary period, between the calm and the
forceful, from which N.O.Y! is built. This transitory period is made up
of twenty bars of music.
Each bar is designated to a particular noyd (a grey circle). Each noyd
emits the sound of this bar repeating over and over. The noyds move
across an eight by six point grid. They visit each point on the grid
once. Each noyd has an individual and randomly chosen route. When a
noyd reaches the last point on it's route, it stops moving but continues
to emit it's bar.
There is a 21st noyd (a red circle). This noyd moves across the grid in
the same way as the grey noyds. It does not repeatedly play a bar,
instead it captures sound. What is captured by the red noyd is the sounds
of the grey noyds depending on their relative location and direction of
movement to or from the red noyd. This caputured sound is then played
through headphones.
N.O.Y! : Roses Don't Grow on a Sailors Grave, is a performance that
follows a similar method as A Train Line to an Ocean. The grey noyds are
replaced by tape players, that play the bars. People carry these tape
players across a floor grid. Each point on the floor grid referring to
a playing card and each person with a shuffled pack of cards telling them
their route. The 21st person with a recording device. A video of this
performance is on the Camberwell Drawing [.] show reel.
N.O.Y! examines disrupted structures.