Motion Still Life 1

Al cabaret voltaire a Zurigo c'e' una webcam puntata su un fiore di plastica.
E' un progetto di Will Pappenheimer (USA) e cosi' descitto :

Motion Still Life 1 extends the artistic tradition of the picturesque and spatial object arrangement into the domain of the Internet.
A live Web camera frames a physical still life scene with vase, flowers and still life objects. Through its counterpart website, aesthetic controls allow internet viewers from anywhere to adjust the composition telematically in the distant space of the gallery.

The Internet user is the surrogate artist.
The time and space of the scene is ever-changing and accessible for the moment that becomes the still life. Exhibition visitors are able to see virtual participants configuring the still life through object movement, blinking LEDs connected with online activity, and multi-colored lighting for night time or alternative illumination. The mechanism is constructed from a self-contained network pan and tilt surveillance camera which has been disassembled and reconfigured for a more friendly gesture.

http://www.motionstilllife01.thruhere.net/

PERFORMANCE WITH ELECTROACOUSTIC CLOTHES

PERFORMANCE WITH ELECTROACOUSTIC CLOTHES

Benoit Maubrey (Free Lance Artist, Berlin)

Electro-acoustic clothes are clothes equipped with amplifiers and loudspeakers, which make sounds by interacting with the environment.

Often the electronics are adapted from one set of clothes into an entirely new ones.
"Audio Uniforms" are "Sonic Costumes” that reflect local customs , themes, or traditions. "

AUDIO GEISHA/Japan, AUDIO CYCLISTS/France, AUDIO HANBOK/Korea come to mind.

In the more recent AUDIO PEACOCKS project wearable electronic instruments are constructed from polycarbonat plexiglass material shaped into a peacock’s fan-like plumage. The plexiglass surface is equipped with 16 loudspeakers (150 watts power), amplifiers, and rechargeable 12 volt batteries.

The "audio-plumage" is highly directional and functions like an electroacoustic radar dish.
An Audio Peacock can use its own site-specific electronic instruments or amplify and alter its voice by using a built-in microphone, sampler, and digital filter.
Also, The Peacock can receive sounds from outside sources via transmitter/receiver and disseminate them in a space by orienting its plumage.

VIDEO PEACOCK is the most recent performance project. It’s costume is based on the Audio Peacock, but is used as a mobile projection screen to visually enhanced it.. Video-taped images are projected simultaneously to the sounds on the costume. In a more spectacular sense the Peacock's own real-time image can be projected live onto its costume as a form of "video-feedback".

Watch the Video or here

links

webpage http://home.snafu.de/maubrey/

a brief hostory

videopeacock pdf

special : Sensor_Sonics_Sights

S.S.S TRIO

Sensor_Sonics_Sights
(or, S.S.S)
http://www.xmira.com/sss

Atau Tanaka, Cecile Babiole & Laurent Dailleau (FRA)

live at DAW in zurich

This trio with artists Cecile Babiole, Laurent Dailleau, and Atau Tanaka create together a dynamic sound and image environment. S.S.S is a trio performing visual music with sensors and gestures.

They create a work of sound and sight, a laptop performance that goes beyond with the intensity of bodies in movement. Going beyond media: music that is more than a soundtrack, images going further than video wallpaper. A three-way conversation modulating sonic and luminous pulse and flow.

Sensors capture gesture and corporeal movement, translating them into digital data:

Ultrasound sensors measure the distance between the performer's hands and her machine, allowing her to articulate 3D imagery, navigating in color, scale, texture.

The Theremin, historical electronic instrument invented in 1919, an oscillator responds to perturbations of electrostatic fields based on the distance of the hands and body to the instrument.

The BioMuse places gel electrodes on the performer's forearms, analyzing EMG biosignals.
Muscle tension through concentrated movement allows the musician to sculpt sound synthesis.

S.S.S's singular approach brings them to present their work in a wide range of contexts in music and the digital arts. They are equally at home performing in galleries or underground spaces, in arts centers or research laboratories.

this video
Atau Tanaka , Cecile Babiole & Laurent Dailleau performed live in Zurich