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Confirmation Excerpts#2 - What is AV Performance?

Luma live at Gallery of Modern Art, Spoleto, Italy

AV is easily understood as Audio-Visual but as a defining term is as broad as Electronic music.  Ian Andrews is a theorist and AV artist whose work as a member of Subvertigo VJ collective melded video surrealism with a playful activism present [...]

Confirmation Excerpts#1 - I am an Audio-visualist

AKA: the position of researcher

It may have something to do with my age; I hit my teens in the late ‘80s and at that time I was obsessed, not specifically with music, but with music video, in particular a show on the ABC network, ‘Rage’.  Every Friday and Saturday night I would set [...]

Soisong - How Live Is Live

Some interesting stuff posted online recently from and about Soisong; an AV group consisting of Peter (Coil, Throbbing Gristle, Psychic TV) Christopherson and Ivan (COH) Pavlov.

Firstly some bootleg video recorded at their recent Cologne gig.

It’s worth checking out the rest of that gig (there are 8 parts).  The video/sound integration errs [...]

Wireless Imaginings

Recently N4rgh1l3 performed at the State Library of Queensland as part of the Douglas Kahn / Other Film presentation “Wireless Imagination“.

Over two nights, the vacuously named “Queensland Terrace” became a science fair of experimental music machines and sound sculptures including Rod Cooper’s superb “Vessel” augmented by a group of manipulators and Anthony Magen’s [...]

Towards a Definition of The Performing Audiovisualist

TDPAV_revision2_submit_candidate

There it is…  my first paper.  Delivered to the Australasian Computer Music Conference in August 2009 and published as part of the proceedings.

Three months on I see it as not so much a proof of concept as it is an evocation of the reason for a program of research on the nature [...]

Total Art in your lunchbreak

The following is an evocation/rant about my research that I posted to an old friend in an attempt to outline what it is i’m doing.  With respect to those practitioners who are working harder than me in the “4 real” world to define this new area – this is not about you – and [...]

live AV and the performance rationale

VOLKAN ERGEN // POOLPOOLPOOLPOOLPOOLPOOLPOOL // PART-2 from VOLKAN ERGEN on Vimeo.

Turkish group Cotton AV (seen working above with Volkan Ergen) are one of many groups around the world exploring the live manipulation of audio visuals. One of their previous musical partners started up an interesting argument on the Audiomulch discussion list about [...]