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I set about trying to find a means to visualise Sandy Nelson's percussive effects; I built some simple 2D shapes in video-editing software and tried to 'vibrate' them. I had the image of a cymbal being struck, a disc-shape producing more complex effects due to the persistence of vision. I struggled a bit, because I couldn't get what my imagination was showing me. That said, during the experiments that led me to give up ultimately on the idea of moving image, I began to develop some work for which I could muster more enthusiasm - and if not visualisations of sound exactly, than artwork that wouldn't look too out of place on the front cover of a jazz album." June 2022