Retina and improvisations
by Kasia Glowicka [music] Emmanuel Flores [visuals]
Retina is a performance that includes piano in a setting that immerse it with live video and electronics and putting the classical idiom into modern context. It is an artistic study in the kinetic relationships between sound, image, motion and space. It takes its inspiration from the early cinematic practices of Étienne-Jules Marey, whose work in studying and photographing movement revolutionized the way we visualize time and motion, and puts them in the contemporary perspective. The main question of this project is the ontology of the cinematic praxis: what is contained on the audiovisual material that allows the cinematic experience to be constructed? How is the narrative material developing? Is modern human differs in attention? How to present the material to the modern audience? The soundscape of sober electronics promotes the image and brings the sound and time dimension to the visual aspect. The nostalgic and familiar sounds of piano bridge the modern and old sounds from the early cinematicworld into the modern world.
RETINA was developed at STEIM (Amsterdam) and studio ARTEK (The Hague).
Jos Zwaanenburg's English Program
Flautist Jos Zwaanenburg presents pieces for flutes and live electronics by composers of The Sonic Arts Research Unit of Oxford Brookes University UK. As an International Visiting Research Fellow at that institution, he invited the composers to write pieces, taking his ideas about a standardised application of contact mics for traditional instruments. Next to the three pieces of the "Research Unit", Zwaanenburg will perform a piece by Dutch composer Jorrit Tamminga who dug into the same subject.
The program:
Jorrit Tamminga / Bell's Palsy (2009)
Efthymios Chatzigiannis / Broken Mirrors (2010)
Paul Dibley / Organ Grinder (2010)
Paul Whitty / has the world changed or have I changed? (2010)