5Rhythm as the intermediary of audiovisual fusions
Audio + Video = Audiovisual + x
The wish to be able to combine music and the moving image arose long before the technical synchronicity of image and sound in audiovisual media became possible.1 Today we find ourselves in an ‘audio-visual media environment’ and technologically facilitated connections between audio and video are omnipresent.2
The unification of audio and video can be described as a fusion. The term ‘fusion’ emphasises that the result of the medial combination is more than the sum of its parts. In this sense, the combination can’t be described as a simple addition.3 Rather, the result is much more a surplus.4 This increase in value can essentially be linked ...
