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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 [...]

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 [...]

Performance Experiments Phase1: Surrogate Band

Surrogate Band from Performing Audiovisualist on Vimeo.

A super early version of what could be considered granular video inspired by:

Granular Synthesis; granular synthesis; Phil Niblock’s Magic Sun film of Sun Ra; Kutiman; and the “Say No More” projects of Bob Ostertag.

Compositional Approach:

My goal was to create a performance system that [...]

Performance Experiments Phase1: Left of Left

“Barrett’s set, for example, explores a very intriguing, almost linear, narrative from blurry, sun-kissed photography and warm spacious ambience to the subdued loneliness of melancholic imagery and trilling feedback before finally collapsing into a dark, droning portrait of utter desolation. Barrett orchestrates the imagery well with a blend of abstract sound, field [...]

Performance Experiments Phase1: introduction

Well howdy!

Over the next three years I will periodically demonstrate my findings through a number of live audiovisual performance experiments, documenting my approaches and related issues.

The phases are as follows:

addressing my background in composition and performance and current approaches; addressing the literature and assimilating theoretical concepts into performance practice; addressing the [...]