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'Wooden Worlds', multimedia performance composition with two papers based on the research delivered at International conferences.

Multimedia performance for viola, real-time video, photography, sound-design, live-electronics and multichannel sound diffusion (duration: 40’).

The research comprises a composition presented on DVD plus musical score on PDF. The research is discussed in two co-authored international conference papers: 2011 International Symposium on Electronic Art and 2011 Interactive Media Arts Conference.

The original research explores the interaction between live-sound and live-video in real-time performance. It focuses on wood as a material in its natural context and uses live-electronic processes to create a ‘close-up’ following Deleuze’s concept of ‘haptic’ in visual arts.

The output builds on Garavaglia’s research and practice in full automation of live-electronic processes. It is an original audio-visual composition that explores the relationship between layers of audio-visual experience, using previously unexplored relationships with the material wood. The layered audio-visual experience allows the eyes of the audience to ‘feel’ the decontextualised image, as well as to see it.

The work was premiered at the International Festival Kölner Musiknacht 2010 (Cologne, Germany). Further performances were held in Denmark, Italy, Germany, Romania and New York. The significance of the performance was analysed and discussed through two conference papers given at the ISEA conference in Istanbul (2011), and IMAC conference in Copenhagen (2011).

The performance and papers were co-authored with Colombian media artist Claudia Robles Angel.

Garavaglia’s individual contributions include research and composition of viola part, programming and research of live electronics and interaction with visual elements.