in collaboration with
„Ich-Orgel“ (I-Organ) by Michael Rieken & Stefan Demming is a tool for an an audiovisual performance.
Rieken & Demming
präsentieren (( presenteeren // present ))
av performance (9/2017 in extracts)
1. Pankratiuskerk, Haaksbergen (NL)
&
2. Stiftskerk, Weerselo (NL)
12 tents, 12 lamps, 12-channel-audio, lightcontrolers, 1 computer, custom software, dimensions variable, at least 500 x 600 x 100 cm, 2009
Camping Ensemble is a sculptural light- and soundinstallation that turns moving images like films into a generative composition. A movie is downscaled to 12 pixels on a computer. Twelve tents contain each a lamp that represents the changing lightness of each part of the movie. Parallel to the light, a sine tone in every tent is played in changing intensities. As the sine tones are in a row of connected frequencies, a (more or less) harmonic, polyphonic composition evolves and the installation becomes a kind of an abstract organ.
Donkey, cat, dog and cockerel are the 4 audiovisual tracks of a composition that’s generated in realtime. Due to an occasional change of the speed of each player’s performance, sound and velocity of the players are constantly changing. According to the fairy tale of the Bremen town musicians, the animals occupied the house of bandits who couldn’t bear the cacophony of the musician’s first performance.
