“The Colours of A Wooden Flute (version ISEA 2016 Hongkong)” by Andreas Weixler, Se-Lien Chuang

Title:

The Colours of A Wooden Flute (version ISEA 2016 Hongkong)

Artist(s) and People Involved:

Exhibiting Artist(s):

Andreas Weixler
Se-Lien Chuang

Symposium:

ISEA2016: 22nd International Symposium on Electronic Art
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Creation Year:

2016

Medium:

Audiovisual realtime improvisation

Duration:

12:00

Artist Statement:

The Colours of A Wooden Flute (version ISEA 2016 Hongkong). Fragments of memories (produced both by human beings and by computer) generate a synthesis of sounds and visuals. The sounds of live instruments serve as interface in an audiovisually interactive concert that merges a sophisticated instrumental sound and realtime computing in an amazing improvisation. While visual images and processes are being generated during the concert, a multi channel granular synthesis, spectral delays and virtuoso chances fit together minute tonal par ticles that make up the instrumental sounds into a constantly changing acoustic stream made up of different pitches, durations and positions in the electro-acoustic space. The musical and visual components interact and reciprocally influence each other in order to blend into a unique, synaesthetic, improvisational work of art.

Improvised instrumental music and audiovisual realtime processes interact and reciprocally influence each other in order to blend into a unique work of art of realtime composition. While visual images and processes interact with the music during the concert, a multi channel granular synthesis and a a multichannel spectral delay generate a spatialization of frequency oriented delays, pulses and feedbacks which sometimes sum up to an even reverberating ambience and fit together minute tonal particles that make up the instrumental sounds into a constantly changing acoustic stream made up of different pitches, durations and positions in the electro-acoustic space. Our art work and research describes the hook-up between human and machine, between musical inspiration and digital concepts. Musical instruments act as interfaces for digital audio processing and enable human beings to communicate with digital technologies as well as to generate, receive and exchange data versus emotions.

Nowadays, as different forms of machine musicianship, are blooming where computer act like virtuoso musical instruments we are focusing on a very specialized form of realtime performance with a computer system virtuoso audiovisual interaction with musical instruments. Every performance of our interactive audiovisual works, even of the same title, is unique not only because of the inherent concept of improvisation, but also because the computer system and the progamming are further developed for every event. The realtime processes of an audiovisual interactive computer system collude with a free artists musical expression. Our art work and research describes the hook-up between human and machine, between musical inspiration and digital concepts.