Farbenrausch AV Performance @TEDXGroningen

#1

Hey there I had performance at TEDXGroningen Yesterday with my sideproject "FARBENRAUSCH", an audiovisual performance duo.

We create everything live on the spot, I use a loopersystem based on @rbrt blocks with the granularverb from @johannes and the mutable instruments reverb with pitchshifter by @SirSickSik in a feedback path and of course my guitar. My collegue does all the visuals live by dripping colours and inks into an aquarium.

The livestream is still online, don't know for how long though:

Here is a session we did before the gig:

#2

very inspiring Simon! Excellent visuals and musical accompaniment. I didn't have any luck with the live show stream probably because my laptop sometimes chugs, but the before gig session is amazing... nice work.

#3

very nice! It's an honor to be used :slight_smile:

#4

Very nice indeed!

If I understand correctly the music is improvised live in relation to the visuals. Imagine a system in which visual recognition software triggers a direct algorythmical response which is hten used to create a musical event. Then the visuals would "create" the music themselves.

"If I poor yellow in a I get an E. If I poor in red I get an A sharp". Stuff like that.

They say some people actually respond that way. There even is a medical term for it but I'd have to look it up.

Marc Brassé

#5

synesthesia...
https://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/syne.html

#6

Hi Lokki,

Synesthesia indeed. Could a name be more appropriate in this context? Maybe us Axolotists should all form a band called Synestesia. Can I be the the (not so) pretty lead singer? :crazy_face:

#7

Thx guys glad you like it :slight_smile:

Interesting Idea but as a musician I really enjoy just seeing, feeling, playing interacting. Also the fact that every sound and image comes from the "real" physical world makes it interesting for us. I could imagine the image triggering certain modulations though.

We have experimenting with more physical or direct links between what we do though:


Here I put a contact mic into the aquarium to take some it's sounds.
In the second part we have a subwoofer attached to a surface filled with water. The music directly creates geometric patterns in the image.


Here my mate is painting on a surface with a contact mic. I feed this sound into a vocoder and kind of resynthesize it.

My next step will be trying something simple: Control the light of the overhead projector under the aquarium from my axoloti system. That way I could at sometimes modulate the light with an envelope follower of my audio for example to create more connection between image and sound.
Not sure how to do this though. I've been advised to dig into the dmx protocol, wich theoretically could be implemented on axoloti.

#8

I'm pretty much sure that the name is already taken but maybe you can ask to join :wink:

#9

very cool! its what i often think about and try to make: connection between sound and visual levels.

#10

Nice stuff!

how about using a circular tank, slowly spinning on a turntable? That would add another dimension to the ink patterns, I think.

a|x

#11

Or using white ink, under-lit in UV?

a|x

#12

I get what you are saying. I'd want to stay in control as well but the sort of hybrids you are talking about are very cool. That example with the contact mike is brilliant! Now imagine a sensor that would pick up the used colour as a pitch input device.

By the way. It reminds me of a documentary about Picasso in which the artist himslef became involved by actually painting on a glass plate in front of the camera. If one would do that here, say on a big perspex screen between the performer and the audience, it would be even more involving for the audience.

#13

@Blindsmyth you probably know all about this visual tech stuff already, but I came across this great OpenCV instruction by a fellow Canuck. I typically create the music before painting the picture (adding video), but this reminded me of your groups great performance and the possibility of tracking and creating the music on the fly, after/during video creation. (If I'm dreaming in technocolour, please let me know) :wink:

#14

To be honest we never got into digital creation or manipulation of visuals. I'm more musician and my collegue is a more of a painter/sculptor/artist. He experimented a lot with this floating colours and when I saw it I knew we had to turn into a performance. But this OpenCV shure looks interesting. In the end it doesn't matter what tools you use but what you do with it I guess :slight_smile:

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