Holofractal impromptu #6: @temporal essay for virtual synths, butoh and voice improvisation

Excerpts from the performance "@temporal essay: holofractal impromptu n.6 for virtual synths, butoh and voice improvisation" presented in the opening of the Computational Instinct Exposition at the Museu Nacional da República in Brasília (Brasil), Oct/23/2009, conceived, sound designed and played by Eufrasio Prates, with the special participation of Sabrina Cunha, butoh dancer and scene director, Bira de Assis, actor and voice improvisation on Carlos Drummond de Andrade poems, and Alex Sales, virtual synthesizers player.
Automated 5.1 Spatializer and Virtual Synthesizers were all programmed in Max/MSP/Jitter (on Mac OS X platform), by Eufrasio Prates, supported on John Bischoff's FM Surfer LFO's patches, and Webcam Midimove was designed on Jamoma's movement interfacing libraries for Max. Some background sounds were designed on SuperCollider, based on Tim Walters' "Modal Space" algorithm.
The performance is aesthetically based on a semiotic improvised dialogue between the expressive butoh movements, Drummond poems fragments and several virtual synthesizers played by webcam captured movements and by wiimotes manipulated by the audience. The theme of this movement-sound interaction is the concept of time, approached under different perspectives. The time of quantum physics, curve, relativistic, non-linear and acausal; the time of oriental philosophy, paradoxicaly atemporal, out and beyond metric; the time of new technologies, vertiginous, virtualized and ubiquitous; the cosmic time, of unbearable slowness, multidimensional and "en bloc"; the time of life, soulful, hedonist, sensual and exuberant; and the time of death, entropic, suspensive, chaotic, depressive and determinant.
Many thanks to the organizers of the exposition, especially to Suzete Venturelli, to Stanley, for the technical support, and Stephane Paula, for the video-recording.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• performance
• contemporary
• music
• dance
• improvisation
• poetry
• Drummond
• semiotic
• max/msp/jitter
• sound synthesis
• fractal
• holonomy
• holofractal