Concertgebouw Brugge has a tradition of a yearly Bach-festival; BACH ACADEMIE BRUGGE. My installation MULTIPLE voice/vision is part of this year’s edition, that runs from thursday January 30 till sunday February 2. I decided to limit the audiovisual materials to only the Ricercar a 6 from Johann Sebastian Bach’s Musikalisches Opfer (BWV 1079), performed by Roel Dieltiens and Ensemble Explorations. MULTIPLE voice/vision is permanently on display during the mini festival, so don’t miss this opportunity to spatially experience Bach’s Ricercar a 6 between the series of live concerts. At a previous exhibition of MULTIPLE voice/vision I made a time-lapse recording…
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The Noises of Art – Sept. 2013
In september I was in Aberystwyth, Wales for The Noises of Art conference. The theme of the conference was situated on the intersection of “visual art and aural modes of creative practice”. As my installations MULTIPLE voice/vision and DIORAMATIZED #02 both work exactly on that intersection – or the friction – between the visual and the auditive, this promised to be a very interesting conference. I sent in the proposal The framing function of the body – a phenomenological inquiry for the session themed embodied sound. Its content was an iteration and further elaboration of the presentation I gave in…
Sound & Image Symposium – Febr. 2013
In february I presented part of my PhD research in the one-day symposium Sound & Image that took place at M Museum Leuven. My presentation was scheduled in the first part of the day, where “doctoral students and artistic researchers presented their research to a critical group of fellow doctoral students, supervisors and experts. This took place in the context of SeminArt, a cross-association seminar aimed at doctoral researchers in the visual arts.” I focussed on how friction functions as a trigger for embodied perception in my installation MULTIPLE voice vision. A description of my talk: In his exploration of…
Cahier MULTIPLE voice/vision – 2013
End of January, the cahier I edited and wrote documenting the research project MULTIPLE voice/vision appeared. A preview of the first part of the cahier is available as pdf download at Acco, the publisher. This is the ‘teaser’ I wrote for the back cover of the publication: This cahier documents how the experimental inquiry of the interaction between audiovisual form and musical polyphony gave the research project MULTIPLE voice/vision its specific form. The articles try to shed light on some of the subtopics of this inquiry: how the multilayered texture of polyphony is mapped to multiple audiovisual elements in a…
MULTIPLE voice/vision @ Opening AWAKENING WOODS
Last friday, July 20th, was the opening of the exhibition AWAKENING WOODS @ Neerpelt, Dommelhof. AWAKENING WOODS is organised by MUSICA as a parallel event to the MANIFESTA BIENNIAL. I made a time-lapse recording of people exploring the installation MULTIPLE voice/vision. The installation MULTIPLE voice/vision offers a spatial experience of polyphonic music; Bach’s Musikalisches Opfer & Brackx’ Ricercari performed by Roel Dieltiens & Ensemble Explorations. MULTIPLE voice/vision @ Opening AWAKENING WOODS friday 20 / 07 / 2012 from Rudi Knoops on Vimeo.
MULTIPLE voice/vision @ AWAKENING WOODS
In the context of Manifesta 9 – Parallel Events, Musica organizes a summer expo ‘Awakening Woods’ with the temporary media-installation MULTIPLE voice/vision by Rudi Knoops and three new sound installations for Klankenbos, a unique collection of open-air sound works. [open] 20.07.12 – 26.08.12 / opening: vrij/fri 20.07.12, 18h [loc] Klankenbos, domein Dommelhof, Toekomstlaan 5B, Neerpelt Text from the brochure: MULTIPLE voice/vision In Rudi Knoops’ media-installation MULTIPLE voice/vision ingenious mirror structures and sound projections create a tension that encourages the visitor to explore music spatially. The installation invites visitors to take a physical walk through the rich counterpoint texture of Brackx’…
Some more pictures of MULTIPLE voice/vision – BACH
This photo-selection documents the process of setting up the installion for the premiere of MULTIPLE voice/vision – BACH at AMUZ 1 october 2011. It took 3 (very) long days, plus on the fourth day – saturday oct 1 – final finetuning and a general rehearsal with the musicians before the concerts in the evening. https://picasaweb.google.com/s/c/bin/slideshow.swf
Premiere MULTIPLE voice/vision @ AMUZ – 1 oct 2011
About a month ago MULTIPLE voice/vision – BACH had its premiere at the concerthall of AMUZ in Antwerp. From MULTIPLE voice/vision -BACH premiere 1 oktober 2011 Through the use of anamorphosis, and especially through the multiple use of anamorphosis, I challenge the traditional audience-screen configuration. On top of that, the sheer size of the installation – 10.40 meters in diameter – demands for activity of the observer. Instead of a viewer immobilized in an Albertian tradition of static one-point perspective representation, the observer becomes an active participant, whose full sensorium of vision, hearing, feeling, walking … is called upon. In…
MULTIPLE voice/vision – some pictures
Finally the server hosting this blog is back on-line. Quick update post with a collection of pictures from making the testrecordings in AMUZ – february 2010 – till the presentation moment of DIORAMATIZED #01 @ FLACC – october 9, 2010: [postcasa showcaptions=yes size=large]http://picasaweb.google.com/data/feed/base/user/rudi.knoops/albumid/5534909904588697249?alt=rss&kind=photo&hl=en_GB[/postcasa]
DIORAMATIZED #01 – ‘toonmoment’ @ FLACC october 9, 2010
A few weeks ago I had a presentation moment at FLACC in Genk where DIORAMATIZED #01 was shown to the public for the first time. What I concentrated on in this first exploration, was trying to impose perspectival limitations on the different layers of the projection. For this purpose I used the technique of anamorphosis. Anamorphosis is an optical curiosity (Baltrušaitis, 1977), and a very interesting one because of its interfering with the laws of perspective and at the same time explicitating these laws of perspective. As Dan Collins points out in his article ‘Anamorphosis and the Eccentric Observer’: The…
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