Hengeveld, Robert - Staging the Gap

A miniature concert stage is fully animated with lights, smoke, and other special effects. An illuminated push button initiates a synchronized playing of the visual effects and the various audio tracks that play within each of the eight headset that accompany the stage. The six minutes of visual effects has been pre-programmed. Bluegrass, classical, vocal, rock, and other musicians created audio interpretations of this six minute visual sequence. Rather than the visual effects shaping our audio experience, the audio tracks frame the visual effect - flipping the concert going experience on its head.

Queen's 'Bohemian Rhapsody' is the inaudilbe source to drives the bulk of the visual effects. (filtered through a 'colour organ' circuit) The video documentation here samples one of the eight audio tracks. This track: 'Bohemian Rhapsody' played backward.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• art
• artist
• hengeveld
• robert
• queen
• bohemian rhapsody
• multi
• media
• color organ
• installation
• sculpture
• smoke machine
• fog machine
• LED
• concert
• stage
• staging the gap