performance inspirations - part2
performances::
Radioboy, Mathew Herbert's live sampling exploitation of objects and materials.
Ryuchi Sakamoto and Alva Noto's minimalist approach with Dienststelle video creating a tight scenic and sinaethetic environments ::
Tablas and other percussive instruments = When one sees the instrument manipulation there's a direct relationship with the sound produced and its expressiveness.
the instrument (interface) actions mirror the (narrative/emotional) events of the performance.
T.H. Vikku Vinayakram Gattam tabla solo
In a more visual approach to the interface creating a more dense and close audiovisual and sinaesthetic performance, Golan Levin's 'Scraplle' performance and interface totally merge into one absolut piece - the actions and results become one.
Scrapple installation at Ars Electronica Center
Scrapple performance at Monkey Town support party - club Europa
Scrapple at OFFF2006 - Barcelona
Scrapple installation Demo - 2005
motivations::
>> as i've never been a musician and never learned how to properly play and merge with a musical instrument, many times i imagined i was manipulating the whole set of sound producing objects and machinery that produced the musics/songs i was hearing and excited by. with my body gestures and my mind i tried to express the nature of sound, its rhythms though i've never played drums, solos came out of my fingers that never touched guitar strings. I'd like to create an interface where the gesture expresses the emotion and nature of sound. I'd like to explore not only the expressiveness of the produced sounds through gestures but also using objects constraints and inner nature.
\\ thinking about...
>> sinaesthetic performance and explorative attitude towards the instruments and sounds: relationships between the plastic nature of sound (what kind of sound, what it sounds like), the technical aspects of it (how it is created/produced) and the interface as a tool for visualization.
>>sound spatialization (in a physicall space) and sound events visualization (in the interface) - spatial relationships
>> exploration of percussion and sequencing in a spatial approach. creation of new sounds - synthetic - and relationships with the actions that produce them.
>> not only percussion (tablas, drums) but also sequencing of events(beats/sounds) ad relationships with traditional and modern(electronic) interfaces (refs:: drums, tabla and more membranophones,.. 303, cmm / animation music machine and timeline interfaces)
>>music animation machine (MAM) and the birth of piano roll interfacing::
MAM on Atari