This was a Video Piece by Jakub Nepras. It plays with dimensions to me as it is a
beautifully crafted piece of urban imagery melted into the inside of a electronic/digital device. I love it, because as a child i saw electronics like this.. and now i wonder.. what do i hear in a world like this ?
Then this is a piece of hans peter kuhn's piece. Maybe not his strongest, but still a
great piece. Well, i was excited to be in an exhibtion with the man. And i have to say, he is one crazy dancer....
...and last but not least: Forest 2.. as i said it was installed in this fabulous space of the dutch theatre company united-c... great space for the installation..
As you can see on the images, it is a matrix-like forest of flourescent tubes. With it there is a screen and around the tubes are surrounded by an eight channel speaker system. Six of them on stands and two of them in the rig as kind of showers.
What i did artistically was to create eight places within the space that are inhabited by some kind of sonic creatures.
The installation is based on the imagery of a forest and a digital organism that is the inhabitant of this place. This organism, based on david rockeby's Cellular Automata Algorithm, in return interacts with the light and of course the sound. So in order to keep this idea of something organic i used material generated from the human voice. It also makes the sound easier to locate. This again supports the idea that different parts of the forest are inhabited by different
sonic creatures.
As you move through the forest you interact with the creature, which in return influences the sonic creatures. They get more active or less active, depending on two parameter: one is the space itself, which is stimulated through movement within the forest and a second being the state of the creature itself. This can be influenced by the audience using a wooden controller - i introduced this controller in an earlier post. Thats basically it.. People really love it, when theyre in it.. its spooky and funny and a completely new experience. When we were done with the programming i spent a lot of time just wandering around in the installation and i was really surprised, how many different moods there existed... If you interested in knowing more or showing the piece in your festival drop me a mail and i forward it to chris....
Thanks for listening,
Alexandre
