Suguru Goto

Suguru Goto is a composer/performer, an inventor and a multimedia artist and he is considered one of the most innovative and the mouthpiece of a new generation of Japanese artists. He is highly connected to technical experimentation in the artistic field and to the extension of the existing potentialities in the relation man-machine. In his works the new technologies mix up in interactive installations and experimental performances; he is the one who invented the so called virtual music instruments, able to create an interface for the communication between human movements and the computer, where sound and video image are controlled by virtual music instruments in real-time through computers. Lately, he has been creating the robots, which perform acoustic instruments, and he is gradually constructing a robot orchestra.

Di Suguru Goto vi presentiamo due video. Il primo, “Robotic Music”, presenta dei robot percussionisti cioè il tipo più studiato, essendo il più semplice da costruire e controllare (e il termine “semplice” è riduttivo perché si tratta sempre di una faccenda complessa).
Qui il valore musicale è relativo, essendoci anche un importante lavoro di ricerca. In ogni caso, come solo di batteria non è poi male.

Il secondo, invece, è una performance più complessa in cui un esecutore umano che veste una tuta che incorpora dei sistemi di controllo, “dirige” una esecuzione robotica e interagisce con un video in cui una figura parzialmente umana esegue le sue stesse mosse.
I due, un corpo “aumentato” e un corpo virtuale, sono praticamente complementari.
L’aurore afferma:

“Augmented Body and Virtual Body” is conceived as a music theater piece, that the elements cross and hybridize themselves in continual links/ratios of exchanges and flow without fixing itself towards any directions. The idea would be that what is real, which is artificial, what is virtual, on the verge of themselves, and to create relations of pure intensities, which degrees zero of expression without its value of positive or negative.