CC4AV event with Julien Bayle, N2, Federico Foderaro, 42Percent #213
Doors: 19:00 / Start time: 20:00
Please come on time, as this evening we will start early
CC4AV with Julien Bayle, N2, Federico Foderaro, 42Percent
All performing artists are using MaxMSP visual programming envronment in their artistic practice.
- A/V live performances:
- ALPHA
- qtm
- ALBA
- Artist talk: 42Percent Noir
ALPHA is a live performance merging sound and visuals into a dense and immersive matter. Julien Bayle designed and composed the first version during the summer 2014 by using a very new creative process. Julien progressively grew sonic structures and designed the visuals generation system at the same time. The visual system analyses sound in real time and dynamically generates the elements and structures displayed on the screen during the performance. Artist created the sound analysis system in order to extract the meaningful elements from the sound at each moment of the performance, feeding the visual generator with information about the noisiness of the sound, its spectrum content and basic time-based data. The visual generator is a complex system I wanted to be able to react to the sound each time differently. Julien left room for chance (he is talking about “constrained chance”) as a part of the performance. There are no pre- recorded footages used in ALPHA, only 3D rendering, with the idea of producing and generating each time a new matter.
qtm— A sound project from N2 which is related to a collaboration between art and quantum mechanics. He programed a computing-based generative system involving quantum mechanical data. Fabian Kruse, Dr. Sascha Delitzscher und Dr. Robert Richter from Technische Universität Berlin, as collaborators, measured and analyzed quantum data of Diamonds in their lab. N2 generated sound from the data into a generative system for audio-visual performance.
ALBA — A synthesized digital audiovisual opera played live using real-time synthesized materials. It has been developed entirely inside the Max/MSP/Jitter dataflow programming environment, both audio and video are synthesized while the opera flows (no audio or video samples used). The work is an abstract piece. Despite the technological approach, it aims to bring emotions. It is a journey that unavoidably leads to the center of our universe.
In 42Percent Noir's journey as independent artists they have gained a great experience in using computer in live performance, whilst considering their artistic development and the experience of the audience. In the talk, they will give an inside look at this journey and discuss some of their methods used in Max/MSP. The key subjects of the talk:
- Syndrome — Electrorock and the development of a new platform for live performances. Published in NIME14 in Goldsmith, London.
- Dag is a DJ — An installation where a fish's motion is optically tracked and translated into music gestures and visualizations. Performed in Kinetica 2014, London. Covered in VICE - The Creators Project, and a comprehensive article just published in Leonardo Music Journal.
- 42Percent Noir — A current project that combines acoustic piano combined with digital sound and visual art.
Julien Bayle is a multidisciplinary and independent artist based in France and working at the juncture of sound & visual. He merges visual art, music composition, physical approach of sound art and data visualization by creating advanced programmed installations and audio/visual live performances. He tries to address the question of disrupted continuum, interferences and representation of concepts by using physics of sound and error/artifact magnification. His work is based on both experimentations and programming, using concepts of complexity and chaos as guidelines. He depicts a world saturated by meaningless informations, societies complexity through a positive-nihilist kind of deconstruction of processes, structures and results. He performed his audio-visual live performances in international festivals like ELEKTRA in Canada, or sound:frame in Austria and exhibited his work in galleries in Europe. Julien Bayle is also an art teacher and provides advanced technical courses about the place of technology in new media creation. He has been invited by different art schools in Europe. He co-leads the Bordille Records art label with François Larini, works closely with & records for Canadian imprint Yatra Arts and is also part of SHAPE Network during 2016.
N2 is a Korean sound artist. He usually creates art works using electronic sound in various ways such as installation, performance and digital media. Using sound in creating progress is the basic conception of his works of art. From the sound, he regenerates artistic output such as sound, visuals and other types. Sometimes he designs generative systems using computer programming for interactive arts.
Federico Foderaro is an Italian artist who is linking nature with technology, gears with branches, gentle wind noise with harsh engine sound. He is using all the digital and analog means that can help him reach his ideas. Federico gives his artworks well defined temporal form, in which elements evolve through time and never stay the same. Alternating surprises and confirmations is the ground-base of his artistic process. Cycling74's Max/MSP tutorials and artworks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvDUaH2fbXP_Yc5Lc9UXfqA
42 PERCENT NOIR is a new live performance project consisting of two people that have collaborated closely for a long time. Shaltiel Eloul is a Phd student in Oxford University and a former student of the electroacoustic department (BarIlan university) and Gil Zissu, a graphic designer and an art director. The project combines acoustics with digital sound and visuals. On a stage, the two sides are merged together to a form of performance that explores the relationship between sound, vision and live-interaction in the modern world.
CURATOR ➝ Irina Spicaka — Berlin-based media artist, graphic, user experience designer and curator of CC4AV platform.
CC4AV is a platform for collaborative experiments with technology, sound, design and visual art. CC4AV organises creative coding for live audio and visual workshops in Berlin.