USA,
2005
Shown in 2006
CREDITS
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Golan Levin, Sue Costabile
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COMMENTS
Shown in Scribble, Scrapple, I.C. You, a program of "live cinema" shorts. Golan Levin and Sue Costabile performed live.
Wondrous, intricate and unique, each of the performances in this program belong under the loose rubric of “live cinema”—a term that describes various innovative visual and sonic arts practices, notably “live editing” of visual and sound materials; “live generation” of images and sound (often through computers); and “live composition” of spontaneously generated and ready-made materials. Live cinema is perhaps the most engaging and complex of emerging multimedia. This program offers a rare opportunity to experience several of its pioneering modes, created onstage by three internationally recognized innovators in the field. These short performances are connected by their magical transposition of gestures and objects into projected sounds and images.
Scrapple treats a table's surface as if it were a kind of musical tablature, producing music in real-time from objects lying on it. Video projections of the table's surface produce a simple augmented reality, elaborated through luminous and explanatory graphics.
FACTOID #109
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