Archivi categoria: Arte

Osmo

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Osmo è un ambiente costituito da una grande sfera (9 metri) gonfiabile in materiale sintetico leggero. Al suo interno è illuminata da raggi laser che simulano le stelle allo scopo di creare un ambiente isolato dall’esterno, apparentemente enorme perché il materiale è una pellicola in parte riflettente.

Ideato da Loop.pH, un laboratorio sperimentale londinese che lavora nell’area del design, dell’architettura e delle scienze che peraltro ha fatto varie installazioni interessanti, come si può vedere qui.

 

Pixel

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Un altra performance in cui la grafica computerizzata crea un ambiente virtuale con cui i danzatori interagiscono. Come spesso accade in questi casi, imho la musica lascia un po’ a desiderare, ma la parte grafica e l’interazione sono ben studiate, con alcune belle idee.

“Pixel”
Dance show – created in 2014

Pixel is a dance show for 11 dancers in a virtual and living visual environement. A work on illusion combining energy and poetry, fiction and technical achievement, hip hop and circus. A show at the crossroads of arts and at the crossroads of Adrien M / Claire B’s and Mourad Merzouki’s universes.

Artistic Direction and Choreography: Mourad Merzouki
Composed by Mourad Merzouki & Adrien M / Claire B
Digital Design: Adrien Mondot & Claire Bardainne
Music: Armand Amar
Produced by CCN de Créteil et du Val-de-Marne / Compagnie Käfig

This video is a cut of extracts from the actual show shot during the last day of creation on November the 14th 2014. Shooting and editing : Adrien M / Claire B.
Premiered at Maison des Arts de Créteil on November the 15th 2014. Duration of the show : 1h10.

The Adrien M / Claire B Company has been acting in the fields of the digital arts and performing arts since 2004. They create many forms of art, from stage performances to exhibitions combining real and virtual worlds with IT tools that were developed and customised specifically for them. They place the human body at the heart of technological and artistic challenges and adapt today’s technological tools to create a timeless poetry through a visual language based on playing and enjoyment, which breeds imagination. The projects are carried out by Adrien Mondot and Claire Bardainne. The company operates as a research and creativity workshop based out of Presqu’île in Lyon.

Resonant Architecture

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ARCHITECTURE AS AN INSTRUMENT
VIDEO DOCUMENTARIES ABOUT ARCHITECTURAL SPACES SET INTO VIBRATION

Since 2006, the Art of Failure collective has been sending bass frequencies into remarkable architectural structures. These experiences establish a dialog between architecture, the structures’ spatial components, and their geographic context – revealing building’s specific acoustic and vibrating qualities.

A projet by: Art of Failure
Art direction: Nicolas Maigret
Conception: Nicolas Maigret, Jeremy Gravayat, Nicolas Montgermont
Video / editing: Jérémy Gravayat
Sound recordings / Mixing: Yann Leguay
Sound installations: Nicolas Maigret, Nicolas Montgermont
Supports: Arcadi, Cnc Dicream, Cnap, Futur En Seine, Ville De Clichy – Production: Ososphere, Seconde Nature, Sonic Protest, Ars Longa, Gaite Lyrique

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Stereopublic

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Stereopublic è un progetto lanciato dal sound artist australiano Jason Sweeney. Il fine è quello di individuare e segnalare i punti più tranquilli di una città e condividerli. Sweeney, inoltre, compone un breve brano di ambient music per ogni luogo segnalato.

Si tratta di un progetto a libera partecipazione, nel senso che, dopo essersi registrato, chiunque può segnalare un luogo in qualsiasi città. Sulla mappa si vedono già parecchie città. Nell’immagine, alcuni luoghi di Londra.

È stata anche sviluppata una applicazione per cellulare, purtroppo solo per iPhone/iPad, il che limita notevolmente le potenzialità di un progetto di questo tipo, che invece conta molto sulla partecipazione pubblica.

stereopublic: crowdsourcing the quiet is a participatory art project that asks you to navigate your city for quiet spaces, share them with your social networks, take audio and visual snapshots, experience audio tours and request original compositions made using your recordings.

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Untitled by John Wynne

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john_wynne_untitledJohn Wynne – Untitled (2009)

300 speakers, Pianola, vacuum cleaner, audio amplifiers, hard disc recorder, speaker wire, suction hose, piano roll

Notes from author’s site

John Wynne’s untitled installation for 300 speakers, player piano and vacuum cleaner is at once monumental, minimal and immersive. It uses sound and sculptural assemblage to explore and define architectural space and to investigate the borders between sound and music.

The piece has three interwoven sonic elements: the ambient sound of the space in which it is installed, the notes played by the piano, and a computer-controlled soundtrack consisting of synthetic sounds and gently manipulated notes from the piano itself. Because none of these elements are synchronised with each other, the composition will never repeat.

The music punched into the paper roll is Franz Léhar’s 1909 operetta Gypsy Love, but the mechanism has been altered to play at a very slow tempo and the Pianola modified to play only the notes which most excite the resonant frequencies of the gallery space in which it is installed.

Sound moves through the space on trajectories programmed using a 32-channel sound controller, creating a kind of epic, abstract 3-D opera in slow motion. Originally developed at Beaconsfield Gallery, a former Victorian ‘ragged school’ in South London, this piece draws on notions of obsolescence and nostalgia, combining early 20th -century technology and culture with a vast collection of recently discarded hi-fi speakers.

These disparate components are brought together through contemporary digital technology which not only distributes the sound but also controls the (found) vacuum cleaner which in turn drives the Pianola. The piece is site-specific, but it also carries traces of its own history: some of the synthetic sounds were created in response to the light industrial ambience of the work’s original location, some in response to its new site in the Saatchi Gallery. The mountainous formation of speakers, inspired by the recycling plant from which they were rescued, functions both visually and as a platform for the projection of sound, creating, in the words of writer Brandon LaBelle, ‘a soft balance between order and chaos, organization and its rupture’.

Phantom Terrains

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Streams of wireless data surge from internet exchanges and cellphone relays, flowing from routers to our devices and back again. This saturation of data has become a ubiquitous part of modern life, yet it is completely invisible to us. What would it mean to develop an additional sense which makes us continuously attuned to the invisible data topographies that pervade the city streets?

Phantom Terrains is an experimental platform which aims to answer this question by translating the characteristics of wireless networks into sound. By streaming this signal to a pair of hearing aids, the listener is able to hear the changing landscapes of data that surround them. Network identifiers, data rates and encryption modes are translated into sonic parameters, with familiar networks becoming recognizable by their auditory representations.

The project challenges the notion of assistive hearing technology as a prosthetic, re-imagining it as an enhancement that can surpass the ability of normal human hearing. By using an audio interface to communicate data feeds rather than a visual one, Phantom Terrains explores hearing as a platform for augmented reality that can immerse us in continuous, dynamic streams of data.

Below the map is an audio recording of part of the same walk, as heard through the Phantom Terrains sonification interface. The sound of each network is heard originating from the router’s geographical location, producing clicks whose frequency rises with the signal strength — akin to a layered series of Geiger counters. Routers with particularly strong signals “sing” their network name (SSID), with pitch corresponding to the broadcast channel, and a lower sound denoting the network’s security mode.

Horror Movie

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portal partyUn breve film sui film, anzi un film sui DVD in cui i DVD sono protagonisti e in effetti fa parte di una serie realizzata da Portal Party, un canale You Tube che si presenta così:

PORTAL PARTY consists of Aaron Maurer, Eric Clem, and Dylan Dawson. Together, they make fun, weird videos for the internet and for themselves.

Il titolo della serie è, appunto, Movies Starring Movies.

Questo è il quinto episodio, in perfetto stile weird. Gli altri li trovate qui su You Tube e qualcuno anche su Vimeo. Non snobbatelo. Sotto certi aspetti è geniale.

Intemporalité

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intemporalitéè un film sperimentale su Parigi realizzato a partire da un gran numero di fotografie volutamente deformate e animate.

Come al solito lamento il fatto che la parte visuale è così sperimentale, mentre la musica è più o meno la solita: semplice tonalità arricchita da effetti. Non che non ci stia, anzi segue bene il ritmo delle immagini, solo che è evidente che la ricerca è visuale e la musica è intesa come commento (peraltro ben integrato).

Film by Didier Viode
Musica: Chris Komus – Cordyceps “Cannibal in Utero”