CO-ME-DI-A

EACEA Culture Project on Network Performance in Music

HCMF – Laser Avatar Project Followup

Place/Dates: Budapest, Academy of Music, 13-14 October, 2010.

Description:

Laser Avatar Project follow up and experimental instruments.

“Laser Avatars”: artistic research project aimed to develop laser controllers to be applied in network music performance. The laser beams function both as an instrument, that producing sound in response to the dancers gestures and movements, and simultaneously as a means of visualization or visual counterpoint of the movements or musical gestures of remote performers. An avatar of the remote performer is created to help to differentiate between the « voices » of the local and the remote musicians. Connecting the sound with laser animation of the remote performer’s actions helps the audience to separate the players’ sounds from each other, and to better understand their musical discourse. There is a wide range of possibilities of visualizations of the players’ gestures as well as the music created by them.

“Bent Leather Band”: Australia’s premiere experimental electronic instrument duo has developed a uniquely Australian [Free] approach to music making. Joanne Cannon and Stuart Favilla’s music sets virtuosity and duo improvisation against a visual spectacle of electronic leather Stradivari. These instruments, made in collaboration with Tasmanian leather artist Garry Greenwood, include the dragon headed light-harps, serpents and monsters. Inspired by instrument making of the Renaissance, Baroque and Indian music traditions, their work embodies sensor technologies, synthesis and signal-processing techniques, which achieve a fine degree of expressive refinement.

Objective:

Presenting the research and music written for special external electronic music controllers like the instruments of the Bent Leather Band and the Laserharp.

Results:

A concert and workshop organized at the Academy of Music in Budapest presenting :

• research work and musical results of the Bent Leather Band,

• new pieces by Johannes Kretz, Ádám Siska, Andrea Szigetvári written in the framework of the LaserAvatars project.

Target group:

Composers, music programmers and performers, contemporary art audience.

Number of participants/visitors/audience :

• Project: 5 composers, 4 performers, 3 programmers.

• Audience: 100 persons.

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