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Scanner: Light Turned Down 

(2001) 

by D-Fuse is a performance focusing on a live interchange between artists charting a conversational movement of colour, musical fragments, texture and image.

Following a singular pulse at a propelling 128 beats per minute, Scanner will wrap sound around the beat as D-Fuse projects images in response, creating a uniquely live experience, each responding to the other.

 

Scanner's hypnotic score is beautifully visualised in an abstract world reduced to an abstract starbust patterning. Paths and borders overlap, as a tunnel of light is created using waves of traffic motion distorted and re-processed into a seamless fusion of graphics and live footage.

 

Scanner and D-Fuse share a restless desire to search for the extraordinary in the ordinary, the colour in the darkness, the sound in the silence.

 

Live performances are unique shows that immerse the audience in both the depth of imagery and sound. D-Fuse builds the performance into the space utilising multiple screens and layering of transparencies. The ambience of the performance is always targeted not only to the imagery but to the type of event, thus no two performances will be the same.

 

Source: D-Fuse on Vimeo

 

 

Scanner: Light Turned Down, architecture, Live Visuals

Reading

VJ: Audio-Visual Art + VJ Culture (2006) edited by D-Fuse. A major change has taken place at dance clubs worldwide: the advent of the VJ. Once the term denoted the presenter who introduced music videos on MTV, but now it defines an artist who creates and mixes video, live and in sync to music, whether at dance clubs and raves or art galleries and festivals. This book is an in-depth look at the artists at the forefront of this dynamic audio-visual experience. (Laurence King Publishing)

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PMP is an audio-visual collective based in Singapore that focuses on the synaesthetic experience where sound and visuals interact in real time, steering away from the notion that audio and visuals are often the by-products of one another. Started in 2009 by Ivan, Felix and Bin, PMP’s music takes the form of minimal electronic music that fuses microsound, glitches and the sound of acoustic instruments. Visually, it is highly distinctive with generative visuals that reacts or controlled in real time. (PMP)

One Minute Soundsculpture (2009) by Daniel Franke (We Are Chopchop) scored by Ryoji Ikeda and filled with visual shenanigans that correspond to the soundtrack. (We Love You So)

Audio Kinematics (2007) is an audio/video installation by Jost Muxfeldt. Audio Kinematics works with the phenomenology of sound and space, and how a listener is manifest in that space. Formally, it plays with the idea of kinematic relations on the level of sound: a virtual audio sculpture. It utilizes the spatial relations and proportions of a mechanical structure to determine various parameters of a sound composition, and creates a kind of virtual kinetic sound sculpture. (Jost Muxfeldt)