Scott / Star
Collaboration Overview - Visual Music and Sonic Shadows
Scott / Star is a long-term collaboration between Richard Scott (music, modular synthesis) and Sanja Star (visual art, animation, audiovisual systems). The partnership explores the relationship between electroacoustic sound and time-based visual composition across film, installation, and live contexts.
Their work operates at the intersection of improvised sound structures and generative visual systems, developing audiovisual pieces in which composition emerges through interaction rather than linear narrative.
[Stardust for R.H.] 2023
Stardust for R.H. is an immersive audiovisual work by Richard Scott and Sanja Star, developed within their collaborative project Visual Music and Sonic Shadows.
The piece combines an acousmatic composition by Richard Scott, created with the Hordijk Modular synthesiser, with abstract 2D and 3D animation by Sanja Star. The visual material is developed independently and later synchronized to the music through an intuitive multi-application workflow, allowing the animation to respond closely to the sonic structure.
The resulting audiovisual composition unfolds as a dialogue between electroacoustic sound and evolving visual forms. Image and sound interact through rhythm, texture, and temporal transformation, creating a dynamic perceptual environment.
Screenings:
MANTIS Festival of Electroacoustic Music, Manchester (2024)
Manifest:io Symposium for New Media + Electronic Art, Berlin (2024)
KoLab Days × Tresor.West – Zentrum für Kunst und Kreativität, Dortmund (2025)
[Fragments of an everyday cosmos] 2023
Fragments of an Everyday Cosmos is a fixed-media audiovisual work by Richard Scott and Sanja Star.
The piece combines modular synthesis composition with abstract digital animation. Sound and image are developed as interrelated structures, forming a time-based audiovisual work designed for screen and projection contexts. The work premiered in Berlin and has been presented in international screening programs.
Premiered on October 23 2023 at the Petersburg art space in Berlin, and screened at the event Atopia collective presents Alternating event vol. 2 in K77 Foyer in Berlin (DE)
Time-Based Audiovisual Works (Films)
Visual Music and Sonic Shadows
Visual Music and Sonic Shadows is a live audiovisual work by Richard Scott (modular synthesis) and Sanja Star (visual art, animation, and real-time media).
The project explores the relationship between electroacoustic sound and animated visual systems through improvisation and projection-based environments. Scott’s modular synthesis generates evolving sonic structures while Star deploys digital animation and live visual composition across the projection surface.
In certain spatial configurations, shadow and physical presence become part of the visual field. During a presentation at Hošek Contemporary in Berlin, Scott’s body intersected the projected imagery, producing shifting shadow forms that merged with the animated environment and expanded the audiovisual dialogue into architectural space.
The project connects live audiovisual improvisation with time-based composition, linking performance situations with the development of film-based audiovisual works.
