Local Whispers - Sub Jam and Audio Architecture installation
27-28th January - Victoria and Albert Museum, Rooms 55 & 52, V&A South Kensington, London. Ruan Qianrui and Yan Jun of Sub Jam, are collaborating with Christian Krupa and Experimenter En Couleur. A
British Council supported project resulting in an exhibition
in London and Beijing and again in London near the end of the year. The first 'Local Whispers' installation was specifically arranged for the V&A's British Galleries Study Room 55 and to work with Cornelia Parker's 'Breathless' and gallery above. Headphones lifted by white balloons play found sounds below Cornelia's dark cloud of squashed instruments and are restrained by phisical objects. Visitors are invited to explore both sounds and related objects, using the sound to set the immediate surroundings and object as a catalyst for the imagination. From the circular gallery above the piece, rays of light augment the walls with suggestive imagery fragmented by shadows. Photo by V&A photographer
Beacon
- Installation proposal for London 2012 Olympics
'Beacon' comprises of a series of 216 sound and light beacons
/ wind powered lanterns along the four miles of the Greenway.
Individually accessible via the web and on site, they relay
one word messages between the site and the web and then sequence
them along the run of beacons. As a word is relayed, the spinning
lanterns emit an arc of light with the sound bite and send
it to the next lantern/beacon in the sequence. The beacons
connect all nations by facilitating simple and complex conversations,
to produce an indefinite, gently flickering composition of
light and messages.
Please note: Beacon Test Film is only representative of a particular stage in the project.
For more information about the project visit experimenter.eu
Cristian
Zuzunaga & Digital Tea Collaboration for Kvadrat at London
Design Festival 2010 Kvadrat launches the 'Squaring
of the Circle' textile collection by Cristian Zuzunaga. Textiles,
prints and a large-scale installation in the London showroom
explore Cristian Zuzunaga’s work. Experimenter En Couleur
together with the two other Digital Tea studios produced the
multi-dimensional side to Zuzunaga's cityscape inspired visual
landscapes.
Shown in London for the first time. The
three collections are augmented by Digital Tea's interactive
design to allow visitors to influence visual and aural aspects
of the designs by interacting with the space.
digitaltea.co.uk
Many parallels can be found between Experimenter and Zuzunaga's
work. Both are keen to process digital data to extremes, and
relish its mutations, so look out for
a specific Experimenter En Couleur/Cristian Zuzunaga collaboration
in the future. cristianzuzunaga.com
Testing The Wheel - Album release. Presented here are the first
recorded works following a decade of research and experimentation.
These early compositions aim to refine and define several
methods in generative music making, to prove the indefinite
moods and experiences possible and understand more of how
the listener is stimulated by such unfamiliar territory. The
compositions break from the barriers of scale and timing associated
with traditional music to allow the freedom to explore new
possibilities. All use generative tools in their music creation
and are the outcome of self-made audio and visual synthesisers
coupled to different stimuli. Control comes in varying degrees
from the rules set at the beginning of the development process.
Methods for playing the machines vary greatly according to
project. Unexpected outcomes are celebrated and essential
to the process.
Listen to Testing The Wheel at the Experimenter
En Couleur Shop
Leave A Mark - Sonar Festival 2010, Barcelona Creating an audio composition
from visitors drawings.A
gallery where you can browse all the marks left by visitors
to Barcelona during the Sonar festival week. When all contributions
have been collected they will be processed and data extracted
to create an audio release. To view gallery experimenter.eu
The Digital Tea Party - Experimenter En Couleur, Creatmosphere
and Shroomstudio collaboration
A dynamic installation of immersive media, referring to the
house of the future. It explores digital tracking and computer
technology to control our local environment through interaction
with lo-fi inanimate objects.
The Digital Tea Party evolves with the moving of the tea set,
to control lighting,video and sound together. Visitors are
directed to take a cup labeled 'fill me' and make a tea. The
act of placing a cup on the table projects a wallpaper layer
representing the cups pattern, starts a video sequence of
a view through a window, initiates a sound and sets the ambient
light. Pouring and drinking produces some surprise outcomes,
whilst manipulation of crockery on the table allows users
to tune their environment, dramatically shifting the colour,
texture, sound and ambiance. Over time the environment develops
from an ever changing and reacting new interior space until
the cup labeled 'don't drink me' is used.
Experience The Digital Tea Party at Tent
Digital, Tent London, Truman Brewery, Brick Lane, EC1V
9LT
and the Din-Collective's showing's at Shunt,
London Bridge.
For more information about this project and its various guises,
visit digitaltea.co.uk.
Generative Outside Inside
A project that transforms a typical London house through weather
patterns. A one year construction/structure-heavy build, that
takes its evolving ambience from the elements generative processes.
Glass, natural light, artificial light and precipitation are
used to transform internal surfaces and our perception of
the space we are in.
Photo by Eoghan Hanrahan
Photo by Experimenter En Couleur. More photos and video to
be added.
Form, Colour and Time Paper
Other than progress on the musical compositions, Experimenter
En Couleur is writing an essay called 'Form, Colour &
Time'. The essay analyses the inner dynamics of form, colour
and time in music, with reference to the writings of noteable
artists and experiments into human perception view
writings
See-So Installation
Related to 'Form, Colour And Time', a new project is now in
full flow to develop a device with which one can paint sound
in real time. This will enable the marking of a digital canvas,
to produce abstract films, at the same time playing a sound
according to the form and colour frequency of the mark made
on the canvas. Thus a musical composition is formed with and
from the visual. The process will then be reversed, so performing
music will create accurate accompanying visual representations.
This will form installation and performance pieces in the
future.
Photo by Eoghan Hanrahan
798
Factory Installation for DIAF 2007 Beijing
The first collaboration for several years has Experimenter
En Couleur working with sound artist and improvisor Yan Jun,
on a site specific piece relating to the 798
Factory/Dashanzi Art Project in Beijing. The piece refers
to the history of the district by taking live signals from
remnants of the original services/ductwork that form the axis
into the site. Mechanical devices and generative computer
based machines will affect the mood of visitors to the exhibition.
Zafka has since joined the project and the three will work
together until completion.
Avenue of pipes leading from 798 Factory - photo by Yan Jun
Pipes within the tunnel - photo by Zafka
Sketch plan of installation axis - Experimenter En Couleur
Evolution Synthetica at the
V & A Museum
Having presented two shows of Evolution Synthetica at the
Victoria and Albert Museum with Shroomstudio, Experimenter
En Couleur continues to develop connections and interactivity
between the live organisms of the performance and the digital
domain. (Evolution Synthetica is a symbiotic performance of
evolving sound and image. Live experiments describing evolutionary
processes use generative sound synthesis, microscopy, macro
footage and live generative digital animation to create a
sensory spectacle bridging art and science).
Preparation, Raphael Room, V & A Museum - photo by Simon
Ansell
Photos of preparation by Alexis Bamforth, and event by Sebastian
Potter and Simon Ansell
Photo by V&A photographer
