Theo Burt "Colour Projections" & Roc Jiménez de Cisneros "Hands in the air, reach for the laser"
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Colour Projections is a computer-based audio and video work creating precise relationships between sound and geometry. Through a progression of geometric systems, rules are established and shapes are created, intersected, combined and destroyed. Each resulting shape is both drawn and sonified - a shape’s outline is directly transformed to an audio waveform.
Although the systems use only fixed, stateless geometric operations, through certain coincidences there is a tendency to attribute identity to individual shapes and perceive a level of causality within the systems. We are reminded that these perceptions are illusive when the geometric behaviour diverges from our expectations, causing apparent shifts in plurality and ambiguities of identity. The work builds in complexity over its duration, playing with perceptions of time and predictability.
Theo Burt is a UK-based artist working with sound, video and light. His work draws on interests in perceptual relationships between sound and image and aesthetic applications of technology. Recent projects have focused on the use of related sound and video to create a transparency of process, and the effect of partial-predictability on perceptions of time. His work includes installations, live performance and fixed-media pieces. The sound and video work ‘Colour Projections’ was recently released as a CD-ROM by Entr’acte.
In physics, a multistable system is one which is neither stable nor entirely unstable, constantly shifting between various mutually exclusive states as a result of the coexistence of several system attractors. ‘Hands in the air, reach for the laser’ uses generative algorithms to implement this behaviour in the synthesis, organization and diffusion of sounds. The output of each speaker constantly shifts between different states, thus changing the listener’s perception of the system, which sometimes appears as an organised whole, and other times as a juxtaposition of isolated, independent sources or subgroups engaging in complex trajectories and subroutines.
Roc Jiménez de Cisneros (Barcelona, 1975) is an artist and composer. Since 1996 he has been the core member of the computer music project EVOL. His work has been released on internationally acclaimed record labels such as Entr’acte, Mego, Presto!?, Diskono, Lucky Kitchen, and his own Alku among others. de Cisneros has followed the ’computer music for hooligans’ motto since the late nineties, giving birth to musical forms built upon a collision of structural ideas inspired by fractal geometry, glimpses of quantum theory, noise and rave culture. From impossible synths to glowsticks, air horns, elastic bass lines, and mathematical equations, his work displays a radical and playful approach to algorithmic composition, somewhere in between Denis Smalley’s concept of ‘spectromorphology’, black magic and what Agostino Di Scipio called ’functional iteration synthesis’.
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from March 06, 2010 to March 27, 2010
Only Saturdays in March, 2-8PM