Tom Rojo Poller / Nicolas Wiese - El Jardín / Trailer pt.2

El Jardín de senderos que se bifurcan
Tom Rojo Poller / Nicolas Wiese
Audiovisual ensemble piece
Premiered at Hoerensehen 2.0 festival
Berlin, November 2009
Ensemble adapter

El Jardín de senderos que se bifurcan [The Garden of Forking Paths] is a short story by Jorge Luis Borges that evokes the notion of a maze of „proliferating and forking times. This metaphor inspired the authors approach of combining installation and concert elements, thus trying to induce a labyrinthine, ramified and interlaced audiovisual experience. The work offers, two temporal perspectives on the same audiovisual material: a static, circulating one consisting of a purely electroacoustic phase, and a dynamic and dircted concert phase in which a score-based composition with a duration of two hours is performed by seven musicians. Apart from the internal structural interlacings of the visual and acoustic layers, also the spacial disposition of the projections and the sound sources play an important role, offering the audience different positions and nested perspectives.
The authors collaborated after a first conceptional stage in Berlin by communicating between Paris and Berlin via the internet, exchanging sketches, images and, above all, elctroacoustic samples.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• tom rojo poller
• nicolas wiese
• hoerensehen
• hoerensehen 2.0
• klangnetz
• berlinische galerie
• ensemble adapter
• contemporary music
• video art
• audiovisual
• concert installation