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Derbyshire Postcards (2023)

I didn’t get where I wanted with this, and where I wanted to get was to some strange and spooky little moving image piece. I even had a name for it: ‘A Derbyshire Postcard’, but hey, nevermind. As it is, I’ve probably got some explaining to do; and so, in a sort of nod to…

philgomm

July 8, 2023

1–2 minutes

abstract, Art, audio, Delia Derbyshire, Derbyshire Postcards (2023), digital art, Pot Au Feu (1968), Sound Design, The Kick-About

I didn’t get where I wanted with this, and where I wanted to get was to some strange and spooky little moving image piece. I even had a name for it: ‘A Derbyshire Postcard’, but hey, nevermind.

As it is, I’ve probably got some explaining to do; and so, in a sort of nod to Delia Derbyshire’s embrace of new technologies (prompt for The Kick-About No.83), I first asked ChatGPT to give me a recipe for Pot Au Feu – in French, which it dutifully provided. Next, I asked an AI-generated voice to read it aloud, which I recorded.

Next, I took that recording into some video editing software and scaled up the resulting audio-wave so I could then photograph it via a webcam.

That done, I took the images of the Pot-Au-Feu-generated peaks into Photoshop, where I colourised them to produce the sort of otherworldly landscapes and fogged vistas that Derbyshire’s own Pot Au Feu so strongly put me in mind of.