The Creativity and Cognition 2015 Performance Evening and Party will take place in “The Art School” venue on Wednesday 24 th June at 7:00.
The performances will be: -
Aquatint: Michael Denton http://www.overlap.co.uk/Overlap_Places_that_Dance.htm
Live audiovisual event. Duration: 30 to 70 minutes. Venue: single screen/ cinema. Music & Imagery Overlap Overlap have developed a style outside film, TV and video art - a way of abstracting and combining imagery that has a musical or painterly logic rather than a narrative based or conceptual one. A visual take on serialism - wallpaper with conceits.
Recent works explore the relationship between still and moving imagery through systems of implied motion within transitions, use of discreet picture planes and obscuration techniques. The view is in movie time but limited to flat photographic space, through a perceptual keyhole more akin to memories and dreams. Experiments with sound and image are distilled into single screen pieces - Lazy Wave, Cloud Edged, Forest Tree, Returning - forming useful components for live mixing, audiovisual polyphonies for installations and performances.
Aquatint is a mesmeric dance of shapes, lights and abstract imagery on the cusp of the recognizable, reflecting the emotional response we experience in powerful natural environments. Atmospheric, complex, sensual and earthy, yet delivered through a systematic patterning within a synthetic void.
Torrrque - Augmented Drum Kit: Christos Michalakos
Torrrque is an improvised piece of music with the Augmented Drum-Kit, a bespoke electro-acoustic instrument comprising of a traditional acoustic drum-kit, embedded speakers, microphones, motors, solenoids, DMX lights and live electronics. The setup is controlled by a Max/MSP patch, which works with a combination of machine-listening techniques, timed events, and direct intervention by the performer.
Sarlacc: Shawn Lawson
Sarlacc, an audio-visual performance, features visuals live coded within the OpenGL fragment shader, that are reactive to incoming audio frequencies parsed by band, beats per minute, and Open Sound Control data. The sound component is performed using Ableton Live and analog synthesis. Sarlacc, the second audio-visual performance piece created by the authors, was developed during a short, intense residency period where iterative improvisational sessions became the foundation of the creative process, and ultimately, the final work. This paper will briefly discuss tool design and interaction, aesthetic concerns, and the creation process of Sarlacc in general.
InMuSIC Interactive Multimodal System for Improvised Composition Music Performance: Giacomo Lepri
InMuSIC is a real-time interactive musical system for electroacoustic free improvisation. By integrating the performer's movement analysis (motion tracking) and audio stream analysis the system is able to identify relevant expressive musical properties. The real-time measurements control different digital sound processes through the correlation of different mapping strategies. The generated electronic audio interventions should then be perceived as a sonic integration of the improvised performance.
AirStorm - Gestural Audio-Visual for Electronic Percussionists: Andrew Bluff
‘AirStorm’ is a semi-improvised short 10-min piece for solo AirSticks and physical model visualisation performed by Alon Ilsar and Andrew Bluff respectively. It will be made up of a drum synth, drum samples, other selected samples and room feedback triggered and manipulated by Ilsar on this newly built interface for electronic percussionists. The piece will display some of the capabilities of the AirSticks along with Ilsar’s dedication to practicing and composing for this new interface. ‘AirStorm’ will be based around the conferences theme of ‘Computers, Arts and Data’ through the choice and samples and ways are played.
The movement data from Ilsar’s Airsticks is processed in real-time by Bluff’s physics based visualisation engine, Storm. Particles are pushed around a virtual 3D world in response to the movements of the AirSticks and rigid body collision adds a sense of real-world authenticity and complexity. The system responds to drums and movements of the AirSticks with a combination of different visual and physical effects. The real-time visualisations exemplify the movement and sonic complexity of Ilsar’s AirSticks performance, providing a visually stimulating and highly synesthetic element to the piece.
Performance: Constellation Theory of Knowledge Electronic Music and Philosophical Metaphor: Scott Simon
The artwork makes use of the author’s research into creating a dialog between the fields of music and philosophy. Specifically the artwork is a multimedia piece that structures a philosophical text as a metaphor realized as electronic musical shape and process. The piece is entitled: Constellation theory of knowledge. Utilizing the philosophical concept of the “constellation” (an idea that Theodor Adorno and Walter Benjamin both made use of) the work seeks to first describe the idea and then articulate it in metaphorical form. This process is an extension of earlier modes of composition that utilized ideas in music via symbolic abstraction. R. Strauss and R. Wagner both made use of this form – the procedure has not been developed further and offers interesting possibilities in terms of orienting motion processes within electronic music.
There will also be a live VJ/DJ set from overlap as part of the after show party
