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
Tag: visualization
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…
DIORAMATIZED @ Huis van de Polyfonie
In february I installed DIORAMATIZED at Huis van de Polyfonie in Leuven. It is for a short working period – probably till the end of march – preparing amongst others the content of DIORAMATIZED #02 for an exhibition in M Leuven september/october/november this year. This time lapse video documents the installation process of the labo setup @ Huis van de Polyfonie:
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…
A Pre-Cinema connection
The pre-cinema history encompasses a myriad of toys and optical devices that all strive to create an illusion of ‘moving’ images by exploiting the persistence of vision effect. The Praxinoscope creates this illusion of movement by turning an outer cylinder, containing a series of images, round an inner cylinder with a series of rectangular mirrors. The viewer perceives the series of images reflected in the mirrors as if they were moving. The image series usually depict very simple actions that permit repetition and offer the possibility of perpetual continuation of movement in endless loops. These optical contraptions are not (yet) aimed…
A design sketch
In a previous post, I mentioned that DIORAMATIZED #01 is a miniature design exporation. Everything is relative I guess: DIORAMATIZED #01 may have a size of about 2.00 (diameter) x 3.00 (height) metres. But in comparison to what we aim at with the full-scale installation(s), I can still call it a miniature or a scale model. The top part of the cylinder will house the ‘machinery’: the projector, computer, etc… The lower third of the cylinder is reserved for the viewing/listening experience. The viewer/listener can interact with the multiple layers of the audiovisual projection by exploring the inside of the…
DIORAMATIZED #01
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) the meaning of the word ‘dramatized’. And this second meaning is also fundamental in DIORAMATIZED #01 as it transposes the 19th century concept of a diorama to a contemporary interactive media formula in a miniature dramatized setting. The technical as well as the aesthetic approach…
Testrecordings MULTIPLE voice/vision
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 back to its original state. So we had just one day for the actual test recordings, which consisted of two parts: – one movement from a string quintet of Boccherini – one duet violoncello – basso continuo We planned the testrecordings just before an actual…
single-point perspective exposed/imposed
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, camera, or just in my head. And I work with the space, considering the relationship of my view point with the space as well as the geometry of the space itself. Then I make the painting. […] If [the viewer] is aware of the work,…
visualization in 3D space
NOVA is a 3D led screen, developed by ETH Zurich. It has many possible application fields, and is used for academic research in the area of human computer interaction for the development of 2D and 3D interfaces involving visual and haptic inputs and outputs. Read more about the project at http://novalabs.ch/ and at http://www.nova.ethz.ch/index.php This demonstration of Baby Nova at the Shangai International Science & Art Exhibition 2009, shows acoustic audio being mapped onto 3D space.
Rudi Knoops 