[artinfo] Fwd: NieuwpoortTheater presents Machine Centered Humanz : 1ste performance new media 9th of november (fwd)

[Andrea Szekeres]

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>Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2001 11:02:31 +0200
>From: anouk de clercq <portapak@pi.be>
>To: playlist eng <portapak@pi.be>
>Subject: NieuwpoortTheater presents Machine Centered Humanz : 1ste
>     performance new media 9th of november
>
>[game of mobile forces]
>is an interactive experiment with music and 3D software, a work-in-progress
>around sound- and image-manipulation, with live music, projections and state
>of the arts software.
>
>artists :
>anoukdeclercq@yahoo.com
>aeki@zensearch.net
>joriscool@hotmail.com
>software :  Touch101 - http://www.derivativeinc.com/tools/tools.asp
>
>[game of mobile forces] - friday 9th of november 20:30 - nieuwpoorttheater
>Gent, Belgium
>Machine Centered Humans* or m(Hz is the newmedia- section of
>Nieuwpoortteater. it presents monthly experiments where artists explore the
>different relations between machines (computers), the public and the
>theatrespace.
>Anouk de Clercq, Anton Aeki and Joris Cool open the series m(Hz 2001-2002.
>         *m(Hz is the initiative of nMn and is part of the Virtual
>ArtsCentre, a collaboration between Nieuwpoorttheater Gent, kcNona Mechelen
>and Stuk Leuven.
>reservations recommended: 09/223 00 00 or info@nieuwpoorttheater.org
>tickets : 150 BF
>
>[game of mobile forces] is the desire to visualize music and to put together
>two disciplines - music and image - into something that transcends the
>boundaries of each discipline involved.  using the new and revolutionary
>software Touch101, a 3D-program that allows us to link certain elements in
>the image to certain sound frequencies. the music makes the images.
>[game of mobile forces] is a game in which music flirts with images (and
>vice versa), in which electronic music flirts with acoustic music (and vice
>versa), in the minefield between man and machine, nature and technology.
>
>anouk de clercq studied film at the Sint-Lukas Art Academy in Brussels.
>Living in New York and working with the New York-based Wooster Group - group
>of artists that combine theatre with video and film - inspired her
>enormously. She is very drawn to the interplay of disciplines: besides
>mixing different art forms in her video work, she also makes films and
>videos that are integrated in music- theatre- or dance-pieces.
>
>joris cool makes soundscapes. his instruments: hardware, software, analogue
>modular synth systems, digital racks, semi-automatic soundgenerators,
>traditional instruments, selfmade instruments,...
>his interest in motion graphics as well as music, resulted in a
>collaborative work with UK animation/filmmaker Simon Pummell presented last
>year in brussels: natural sounds combined with minimalistic electronic music
>integrated in a 3D-web constructed space. in his collaborations he chooses
>projects in which the exchange between image and music is essential.
>
>anton aeki with a quote : "at a time when standard ideas about what music
>should be have collapsed, technology - even basic and cheap - allows our
>noise environment to become an area for musical practice. the modern
>acoustic environment is often considered in our culture as a form of
>pollution. it is mainly made of machines and devices; this situation breaks
>with centuries when men knew mainly the sounds of nature. adopting the
>standpoint according to which these artificial noises are valuable, anton
>aeki's work is based on our everyday-life sound environment considered as an
>abstract material. street noises or a printer and its rhythm and sound can
>produce a mental response in a comparable way as instrumental music does.
>also working with the idea that sound texture is the base of the musical
>piece, aeki uses sampling and field recordings to create pieces that could
>be described as organized chaotic soundscapes."
>  +++++++++++++++++
>
>cONTACT : nMn@nieuwpoorttheater.org
>