Rudi Knoops

Tag: perspective

  • DIORAMATIZED #01

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    DIORAMATIZED #01 is the first of a series of experimental design explorations that we are setting up in the framework of the practice-based research project MULTIPLE voice/vision. I coined the word DIORAMATIZED because on the one hand it refers to the 19th century phenomenon of dioramas, and on the other hand it carries (some of)…

  • Testrecordings MULTIPLE voice/vision

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    Last week testrecordings for MULTIPLE voice/vision were on the agenda. We had the concert hall of AMUZ – a deconsecrated church in Antwerp, with superb acoustics – for 3 days. Not so much when you consider that we would need 1 full day to set up, and 1 other day to get the concert hall…

  • Deconstructing polyphonic texture

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    Just revisited Janet Cardiff‘s website for  “THE FORTY PART MOTET | 2001”. Even though I have not seen/heard this installation yet, I’m sure it must be awe-inspiring: a deconstruction of the polyphonic texture of Thomas Tallis’s Renaissance masterpiece Spem in Alium into its 40 individual voices. I want to touch upon ‘The Forty Part Motet’…

  • single-point perspective exposed/imposed

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    Felice Varini is a Swiss painter obsessed with perspective. His canvas however is architectural space. He explains in an interview: I start my works from one vantage point, which is simply the height of my own eye level. This is only a starting point, a way to begin. I plan the work using sketches, pictures,…