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34 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
London Metropolitan University
'LHRNRT', a series of improvisational collaborative performances with real-time video (Elaine Thomazi Freitas) and
real-time music (Johnathan F. Lee).
This collaboration with Jonathan F.Lee researches interactivity of video and sound with live electronics and other media. The work employs graphic programming environments, Wacom tablets and Monome devices coupled to test and investigate in the performance environment.
Technology is used to establish new connections between the co-authors, despite our physical separation during a large part of the research and development phase of the work. The title is an allusion to our frequent use of international airports where people may circulate so often that these locations become an extension of home or work space.
The objective (alongside partner works in this series) was to identify ways of developing the flexibility required for interaction and reaction into a live performance, juxtaposing video and music, with us working together towards new solutions in real-time.
The research focuses on our methods of communication and collaboration over distance and experiences, both shared and diverse, of place and global distance as experienced and re-imagined through digital and electronic media. The images and sounds are designed to evoke a network of associations of city, as they are mixed, processed and blended in real-time. The research also at times engages other participants (for example school children) in performances that both support relationships to develop between local communities, composers and performers and engages participants in a direct process with elements of the performance. This acts as a further disruption to the notion of the space of the performance and the space of the viewer.
My research in this territory forms a repertoire that acts as a form of critique and reflection upon contemporary music making in digital and temporal space.
Selected for the International Computer Music Conference, in Perth/Australia, 2013. Sinus Ton Festival, Magdeburg/Germany, 2012 and International Computer Music Conference, in NYC & Stony Brook/USA, 2010.
