"This is the ambient video", says Yamamoto himself about Chromatic Cliff. He could also have called it Ambient Minimalism. Because, despite his brief reference to reality (taboo in Minimalism), Yamamoto has applied here the same principles that the well known American sculptors from the seventies used. He reduces the medium to its bare essentials: movement and time, colour, Light, Sound and their technical manipulation possibilities. The reality of the rolling in and ebbing away of waves against a steep cliff is a logical result of Yamamoto's technical approach in which all the above mentioned aspects can be expressed in wave movements. The sound wave is reduced to its most simple form, the sinus wave. The wave lengths of blue and green light appear and disappear in pure, unmixed colours. The ambient aspect of this video is hidden in the intended sensory effect of the vibrating sound and the cooling images. Like a kind of experiment in form, the changeability of water has been processed with the computer and with editing, the left half of the split screen blue, the right half green. The rhythmical surging and fading away again of the waves that wash against the cliff is suggested by a synthesizer without the sound actually sounding like the noise of breakers. Meanwhile, the moving images of the cliff in spilt screen fade until they suggest two amorphous bodies feeling each other.
– Lies Holtrop
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Camera Shinichi Yamamoto, Nobuhisa Komiya, Sound, Music Rei Harakami, Thanks to Nobuhisa Komiya
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