_mar.core

project:

A MOONLIGHT ODISSEY (Aiòn#oo2)

excerpt

details:

available as:
live audiovisual performing (47') - musical medium-lenght film (50') - audiovisual installation (∞ loop mode)

abstract:

 

a synesthetic experience in to the light of the moon

 

movement is perceivable only when who observes and what is observed, are under different conditions

therefore, to break a static condition

it is necessary to stop when environment move and to move when environment stops

what really has worth is not what we see and what we hear

but what is in the spaces between

 

 

This project belongs to a wider research on the perceptive ways, as happened for other analogous works, the results are proposed to the public using the means and the form of the audio-visual performance

In this work the attention is focused to the concepts of movement and stillness, in sense both physical how metaphoric, and to their characteristic aspect of relativity deriving from the relationship created between observed and observant. The space, always different and subjective, created by the interaction of these two elements, it is the specific object of experimentation in this step of the research.

 

The performance is addressed to a reduction of the sensorial splitting, with the induction in the public of an integrated synesthetic perception. Since the studies of Sir. Francis Galton in 1883, the neurological condition of the synesthesia is described as a responding to a stimulus of one sense modality with sensations which belong to another sense modality. Today that the researches of Casagrande and Heyrman, have statistically codified the percentages of interaction of every sense with the other senses, synesthesia can be considered

as a natural form of virtual reality

 

concept:

 

the idea of A MOON LIGHT ODISSEY have been developed starting from a series of images, realized interacting with the lunar light, by the photographer ripley8 (Machina Amniotica)

Through an editing process, _mar.core has transformed the images from static to dynamics building, in this way,

the main video track of the performance. In the secondary two screens (placed to the left and to the right of auditory), the images are processed giving back a rendering that represents the "spaces between" mentioned in the abstract of this project.

 

The audio tracks are spacialized in real time with a dolby surround 5.1 diffusion, each one of the audio sources contributes to produce a series of sonorous sculptures constantly transorming in which the public is dipped through a three-dimensional auditive perception. The musical composition contains both samplings and generation of synthesis sounds and it develops in a continuous process of de-contextualization and re-contextualization. This modality, between memory and oblivion, it is used as coadjutant to the production of subjective free associations.

 

 

Another component present inside the soundtrack of the performance, it is the use of the binaural waves

(BBF Binaural Beat Frequencies). These waves are produced spreading contemporarily two identical acoustic frequencies to which is applied a difference of phase between the audio channels. This difference of phase induces the brain to produce a third frequency called "brainwave", absolutely subjective, that is the result of a mediation between the two sonorous impulses. All the used elements (audio/visual/surrounding) contribute to the induction of a synesthetic perception, unique and individual, for each person of the public

 

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