Untitled Noise by Ju-An Hsieh (VAV – moving image)

The colour white, merging the entire colour spectrum, vanishing into colourlessness. Untitled Noise is inspired by colour theory. In our daily life, different types of noise affect our emotions as the psychological effects of colours. The artist records noise such as sound of broadcast, electricity, water, and flying birds in Amsterdam. She uses the noise archive to compose a song. The noise is been classified into several levels and tones like colour. Through this work, the audience can experience the transforming of sound and colour.

This video is part of: Rietveld Uncut 2020

For the fourth consecutive time, the Rietveld Uncut team has worked towards an exhibition of these projects in the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, this year under the title Relating (to) Colour. Students investigate "colour" from different perspectives and meanings.

Due to government measures to control the coronavirus, the Rietveld Uncut exhibition and the Studium Generale conference week in the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam in March 2020 were cancelled. Participants were asked to create digital translation of their projects and share this with the online audience.