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Headsynth and Gravity Harp (performance 2011)
The performance was part of the Lilith 2011 performance event at Lilith in Malmö in May. The performers are carefully turning knobs in each others faces to establish wordless audio/visual communication. The masks are also sensing head movements and transcribing them to abstract musical dramatics.
The Gravity Harp is a metal frame with 2 pendulums, 2 springs and 2 goseneck lights, their movements in relation to gravity being sensed in 2-dimensions. The signals generate harmonies, textures and rythms, in the audible as well as the visual spectrum.
My aim is to go beyond the practice of merely adding suitable visuals to music (or vice versa) and create a supra-modal instrument where visual and musical expression as well as physical movement and spatial experience are linked together already from the onset of their conception.
videos:
Opening set with Headsynth solo (8:11)
2 part Headsynth improvisation (2:53)
Gravity Harp imprivisation (2:39)
The performance was part of the Lilith 2011 performance event at Lilith in Malmö in May. The performers are carefully turning knobs in each others faces to establish wordless audio/visual communication. The masks are also sensing head movements and transcribing them to abstract musical dramatics.
The Gravity Harp is a metal frame with 2 pendulums, 2 springs and 2 goseneck lights, their movements in relation to gravity being sensed in 2-dimensions. The signals generate harmonies, textures and rythms, in the audible as well as the visual spectrum.
My aim is to go beyond the practice of merely adding suitable visuals to music (or vice versa) and create a supra-modal instrument where visual and musical expression as well as physical movement and spatial experience are linked together already from the onset of their conception.
videos:
Opening set with Headsynth solo (8:11)
2 part Headsynth improvisation (2:53)
Gravity Harp imprivisation (2:39)