Gamelán Electrónico - Part 1 - Select cc for english subtitles

Alba Fernanda Triana
www.albatriana.com

This interactive musical instrument is comprised of a luminous table, a real-time processing interface and nine speakers. Visitors slide the shadows of their hands over the luminous table to change the color and orchestral content of a musical piece by Alba Triana.

Electronic Gamelan is the first in a series of works reflecting upon basic constituent elements in traditional music practice. This series poses questions such as: what is an instrument, what is a musical score, what are the rolls (spectator, performer, composer), what is a musical esthetic experience, what is music. These works propose redefinitions of music and its basic elements from a contemporary perspective, contextualizing them within the new mentality, technological resources and current life style.

In Electronic Gamelan:

- The instrument contains its surrounding space. It is played without touching it, just using hands shadows. It can be performed by anyone, no need for training or skills.
- The spectator is spectator and performer. The music is composed by the artist, but the spectators create their  own version.
- The musical composition allows transforming its timbre (color). Even though it is one musical piece, it has endless versions.
- The orchestra is not made out of musicians but loudspeakers which delineate the spacial boundaries of the instrument.
- The event is not a concert. It is a participative, interpretative, interactive, collaborative, musical and visual experience.
- The intangible is present in the hands shadows, in the performers' intuition, in their playing, in their interaction.
- The work is the instrument, the musical composition, and to a greater extent, the nature of the experience proposed.

Alba Triana would like to thank:

Rodrigo Facundo: visual design
Camilo Sanabria, Luis Fernando Henao: programming and audio synthesis consulting
Sebastián González: interactive interface development - www.setianworks.net
Juan Ricardo Forero: production artist
Andrés Cabrera: interactive interface consulting

Category:

Music

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[aveyanceleona]

que interesante trabajo!

me gusto mucho lo que finalmente resulta