Sound X Sight “SXS” Music Video Project

Leo Kuelbs Collection is proud to initiate “Sound X Sight” Music Video Project, which fosters greater communication and collaboration between the mediums.  “I was trying to load a piece of music onto an online platform, when I realized you must include a visual object, as well,” Kuelbs explained.  “Then it just seemed so obvious that music and video people should be talking, working together all of the time to share their platforms and inspire each other.  This inspiration, thanks to the internet, can span continents.  It’s like digital, artistic pen-pals.”  Thus, the “Sound X Sight” project began. 

Collaboration is a vital tool in today’s ever more isolationist climate.  Anyone can make a music or videos, at home on their own computers.  But have you ever heard a visual artist’s soundtrack to their own video?  It’s typically an almost interchangeable droning, flat soundscape.  By a similar token, most musicians focus solely on the song and bypass visual representations completely.  This disconnect between the mediums creates not only a good opportunity for different types of artists to react to foreign instigations, a very healthy exercise, but it also creates a potential connection between people from different cultures, as well.  All thanks to the connective quality of the internet. 

Sound X Sight Projects:

N’conduit: “The Many Shades of N’conduit,” with videos by Sean Smuda, Normal Gergaly, Joan Grossman, Domenico Barra and Rani Messias

Unguided: “Transcontinental Explorations,” with videos by Sean Smuda, Domenico Barra and Maria Naidyonova

Sea of Daisies: “The Trepidation Twist,” with videos by Normal Gergely, Nicola Rubenstein, Thomas D. Rotenberg, and Juliane Pieper

Kari Tweiten: “Sometimes…,” with videos by Sean Smuda, Karl Erickson, Mighty KongBot, Rani Messias, Normal Gergely, and Tahian Bhering