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| Piksel Sunday 31 october | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Daytime schedule involved people still arriving from everywhere and installing/configuring their machines. I arrived late in the evening (after a 22hrs flight from Tokyo), and was picked up very professionally at the airport by tai-chi expert Sverre, one of five Piksel volunteers who have agreed to help out with various tasks for free against a promise to "possibly hang out with the nicest Free Software programmers in the world" - not bad :)!! Then straight to Landmark for the evening programme, just in time to say hello to everyone and get the second half of the performance by TangieRCluJ (how on earth do you pronounce that??). They are a video/audio duo by Tom Tlalim and Amos Elmaliah, doing ambient/noise sound and generative video patterns from behind their respective laptops, using mainly PD and Supercollider. Although the audio and video streams were both nice enough, I personally would have enjoyed it more if there was at least a few points of correlation/sync (or unsync) between the audio and video signals; it became a little bit too "floaty" for me. However Amos later told me this was their first public performance, so keep it up guys! (and don't be afraid to let each other in on your streams). Adam Overton was next with his "Sitting. Breathing. Beating. [Not] Thinking" classic performance piece. The first two parts consisted of him sitting half naked on the floor with EEG sensors connected to his head generating signals to a set of digitally created audio samples. The (white)noise that came out very loud maybe reflected his inner mind, but certainly not mine! (terrible jetlag, remember?) On the last part he undressed completely and scratched his body with a turntable pickup. Well, it sounded loud and... scratchy. No new secrets revealed for me I am afraid. I could probably have enjoyed it somehow if I was given some kind of "proof" that it was the sound from his body I heard, like a heartbeat, breathing, stirred emotions or something. But as it was, the performance in this context became a little pretentious although I learned later that Adam definitely isn't!! Sorry | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Tom Schouten was here last year too, being one of the foremost advocates for PDP, and also part of BULT with Yves Degoyon who'll arrive later in the week. Toms show was possibly even louder than the other two, people running for earplugs in the bar. This time I was convinced. The audiovisual material was of the generative type (like all tonights performances actually, no videoclips of space monkeys and naked dogs) - and this show had all that I missed in the previous two: A clearly defined, but not obvious, relationship between audio and video. After 10-12 mins Tom stopped the show while I was still exploring the relationship between the media layers and my own bleeding ears. Fascinating, and right to the point. Next week he'll participate at DEAF in Rotterdam under the label Young Radicals - right on, Tom! Last one out this dark sunday nite was August Black with a presentation of his "DataDada" project, which is basically an application made to read any data from any harddisk and convert them to audiovisual representations. Great fun, especially when the output at times get very rhythmical. The sync between audio and video is pretty 1:1, but since its all purely formalistic it never becomes banal, although I guess the quality of the show is depending entirely on the (meta)data on your harddisk. Unfortunately I didn't stay long enough to fully see the relationship between different filetypes (e.g. the sound of a .png compared to a .doc), but nevertheless this was a nice ending to a loooong day and night. It was 11am Tokyo time before I got into bed.. |
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