SOFT REVOLVERS (2014)
//audiovisual performance//
Honorary Mention, Prix Ars Electronica 2015
Soft Revolvers is an audiovisual performance for 4 spinning tops built with clear acrylic by the artist. Each top is associated with an ‘instrument’ in an electronic music composition and the motion data collected by sensors – placed inside the tops – informs musical algorithms. With their large circular spinning bodies and their role as music playing devices, the interfaces strongly evoke turntables and DJ culture, hip hop and dance music. LEDs placed inside the tops illuminate the body of the objects in a precise counterpoint to the music, creating stunning spinning halos.
BALLISTICS (2019)
//audiovisual performance//
Ballistics is an audiovisual performance for pendulum interfaces that takes its inspiration from mysticism and popular science fiction.
The luminous and wireless objects are equipped with motion sensors that allow manual manipulations, oscillations, turns and very high impulse paths.
The performance, an exercise in sonification of abrupt and physical pendulum movements, uses digital modular synthesis to reveal a corroded and textured landscape of irregular rhythms.
AUTOPSY GLASS (2015)
//audiovisual performance//
autopsy.glass is an audiovisual performance that explores the sonic, visual and symbolic potential of the wine glass. Through live manipulations, sometimes delicate, sometimes violent, the performer composes a musical and luminous scene made out of resonances and debris, catalyzing that peculiar tension associated with anticipated destruction.
ANTI CHAMBRE (2014)
//audiovisual performance//
is an audiovisual installation and performance for a variable number of two meter long fluorescent tubes replicas. For this project, we were interested in working with unconventional, more tangible projection surfaces. In this case, our ‘screen’ consists of an array of lighting fixtures built by the artists that are dialoguing with, interrupting and masking the projections using, paradoxically, the same medium: light. ANTI CHAMBRE adapts to any space through variable configurations of the tubes and precise video mapping. The visitors are invited to wander among these illuminated geometries.
The high parallel lines of ANTI CHAMBRE remind both the bars of a cage and the bare trunks of trees. Both enclosed spaces – fluorescent tubes being the default lighting fixtures in large corporate buildings – and the unrestricted openness of nature. The projections also illustrate this duality between the natural and the constructed, the organic and the synthetic; it evokes the comfort of a chamber and the coldness of a prison cell, between fluid conglomerates and clean geometric shapes.
PHOTOMATON (2013)
audiovisual performance / installation
Photomaton is a sound installation for three incandescent light bulbs, whose variable intensity is orchestrated with the music. The bulbs are mechanically actuated allowing them to oscillate in a pendulum effect and change height. The piece explores failure and strangeness using 'glitches', electricity, 'hums' and 'buzzes' and pure sinusoids. The small number of lights emphasizes each bulb’s individuality and the narrative aspect of the work.
Photomaton was presented at Eastern Bloc for Data: Salon / October 2013.