ORCHESTRA OF ANXIETY 2006
ORCHESTRA OF ANXIETY 2006
interactive instalation
Date: 24 - 26 March 2006
Place: Design factory, 2 Bottova, 811 09 Bratislava
Organizers: British Council and 13 kubikov
Coop: Design Factory
Manu Luksch and Mukul Patel from London based ambientTV.net are artists
who are not afraid to use in their works the latest technologies and
critically evaluate their impact on the society. There belong also the
security and surveillance technologies, which are part of the industry
that today experiences rapid economical grow and yields hundreds of
billions of dollars. For their invisibility, these technologies became
theme of the recent interactive instalation - Orchestra of Anxiety by
ambientTV.net. After the succesful presentation in Watermans gallery,
London, the next stop will be in Bratislava where they'll bring the
instalation thanks to the cooperation with 13m3 and British Council.
The core of the instalation is a harp, an instrument traditionally seen as
evoking peace and quiet but in this case provoking rather the feelings
of uneasiness and anxiety - the harp is connected to a computer that
on the bases of signals transmitted from the harp modifies the
sequences of video and sound. Visitors of the 3 day long performance Orchestra of
Anxiety will be able to become harp players too, they will just need to
put on a special pair of gloves to play on its barb-wired cords.
Orchestra of Anxiety workshop
26. march, 15.00
design factory, Bottova 2, Bratislava
Presentation of the results: 20.00
Orchestra on anxiety has two layers: hardware and software. The
software layer builds upon MAX/MSP, a graphical development environment for
music and multimedia. The participants will join their efforts to produce an
alternative version of the installation in MAX/MSP, differing in audio
and video output and the way it's modified by the harph. Manu Luksch
and Mukul Patel will be available as technical and content consultants.
More info and photos http://www.13m3.sk
More links:
http://www.ambienttv.net
http://www.britishcouncil.sk
http://www.designfactory.sk
see the video
http://relay.exequo.org/ambienttv/?m=1400&s=1
















