DIGITAL WILD CONCERTS
DOKKHUSET / March 6 & 7, 2020
MATHIEU LACROIX & TRONDHEIM SINFONIETTA / LASSE MARHAUG / GYRID NORDAL KALDESTAD / HILDE MARIE HOLSEN / DRONE OPERATØR & METTE RASMUSSEN & LASSE MARHAUG / MYRIAM BLEAU
PIXELS :: FRAMES :: BEATS :: DRONES
GALLERY KiT / March 24, 2020 @ 14:00 – 18:00
WORKS BY MICHAEL FRANCIS DUCH, ØYVIND BRANDTSEGG, CRAIG WELLS, TIJS HAM, ALEX MURRAY-LESLIE, MAGDALENA MANDERLOVA, NANNA KLITH HOUGAARD & JEREMY WELSH
An open-form, trans-disciplinary, improvisational performance by a diverse group of visual and sonic artists. Members of the group have previously worked together in different configurations, but not previously all together as in this project.
Pixels / Frames / Beats / Drones is developed in three parts. First, an intensive workshop at the artist residency centre Surnadal Billag, where the elements for a spatially constructed series of audio-visual events will be developed in collaboration. Rehearsals and impromptu performances are to be documented with sound and vision,
and this documentation will form part of the material to be used further in the performance for Meta.Morf.
The project’s second phase, during Meta.Morf, will be a one-day event in Galleri KiT, Trondheim on the 24th of March, 2020. Here, the ideas developed during the workshop in Surnadal will be tested in public, further refined, developed and modified. The entire performance is a processual work-in-progress rather than a completed production. Content will be modified and adjusted to suit the spatial characteristics of the gallery and its acoustic qualities. Again, the sections of the performance here will be documented and taken further as source material for the next iteration.
The third phase of the project will be presented as a “public rehearsal” at the SAR (Society for Artistic Research) annual conference, to be held in Bergen immediately after the Trondheim event. At SAR, the performance will take place within a framework that includes direct interaction and discourse with the public, which will include conference delegates and a general audience.
Pixels / Frames / Beats / Drones builds upon the experience of earlier projects by group members and is envisaged as an experimental, cumulative, investigative and associative exploration of audio-visual interactions within specific spatial and temporal settings.
Jeremy Welsh (project initiator)
Audio-visual artist, Professor at Trondheim Academy of Fine Art
Alex Murray-Leslie
Member of performance group Chicks on Speed and Guest Professor at Trondheim Academy of Fine Art
Michael Francis Duch
Musician, researcher and Associate Professor, Department of Music, NTNU, Trondheim
Øyvind Brandtsegg
Musician, developer, researcher and Professor of Music Technology, Department of Music, NTNU, Trondheim
Magdalena Manderlova
Artist and musician working between Trondheim and Prague
Nanna Klith Hougaard
Artist and musician working between Trondheim and Copenhagen
Trond Lossius
Sound artist, developer and researcher based in Bergen
Craig Wells
Sound artist/composer, PhD researcher at Faculty of Art, Music & Design, University of Bergen
Tijs Ham
Sound artist/composer, PhD researcher at Faculty of Art, Music & Design, University of Bergen
INSTITUTO STOCOS / Trondhjems Kunstforening
META.MORF X – DIGITAL WILD | FINAL CHAPTER 2021
TRONDHJEMS KUNSTFORENING / March 2021 / Curator: Elena Perez
PIANO & DANCER II
INSTITUTO STOCOS – MURIEL ROMERO [es] / PABLO PALACIO [es]
On stage, a dancer and a piano. There is no pianist. The dancer starts making her choreography and the instrument’s keys move responding to her gestures. The music sounds even if her body does not touch the instrument.
Piano & Dancer II is an interactive dance piece for a dancer and a mechanical piano. The piece presents the dancer and the piano as two performers whose movements are mutually interdependent. Specifically, the music of the piece is produced by the mechanical movements of the piano, which are a real-time response to the gestures and expressiveness of the dancer. In this way, the spectator can perceive acoustically intimate aspects of the dance choreography that are usually hidden through the sound that the movements generate.
Piano and Dancer II is a clear, direct and intuitive work art and technology where two disciplines interact, music and dance, to push each other’s boundaries, supported by state-of-the-art- technology that has been developed following artistic needs. The result is a hybrid form: a finely composed dance performance but also a high quality piece of music.
Piano & Dancer II is curated and produced by Trondhjems Kunstforening in collaboration with Meta.Morf 2020. The previous version of the piece has been shown in a range of European theatre houses. Piano & Dancer II is a new version adapted to the intimate rooms of an art gallery. Special thanks to Institute of Music Technology at NTNU for letting us borrow the mechanical piano.
Photo: Gunter Krammer
CHOREOGRAPHY: Muriel Romero
MUSIC: Pablo Palacio
PERFORMANCE: Muriel Romero
SOFTWARE AND INTERACTIVE TECHNOLOGY: Pablo Palacio, and Daniel Bisig.
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE DESIGN: Daniel Bisig CURATOR and DRAMATURG: Elena Pérez
PRODUCTION: Instituto Stocos, Trondhjems Kunstforening
DISSEMINATION: Trondhjems Kunstforening and Meta.Morf
SUPPORTS: EU ICT H2020, Comunidad de Madrid, La Casa Encendida (Spain), Unterwegs Theater (Heidelberg, Germany), Infomus-Casa Paganini University de Genova (Italy) and Institute for Computer Music and Sound Technology of Zurich (Switzerland).
SUPPORTS for Piano&Dancer II: AC/E Programme for the Internationalization of Spanish Culture (PICE), Trondhjems Kunstforening (TKF) and Trondheim Electronic Arts Centre (TEKS).
INSTITUTO STOCOS
Founded by dancer Muriel Romero, musician Pablo Palacio and media artist Daniel Bisig, Instituto Stocos is a Spanish-based group developing performance works and research at the intersection between body gesture, music and interactive visual imagery. They also seek inspiration in other fields by integrating methods, elements and abstractions from artificial intelligence, biology, mathematics and experimental psychology.
Works they have created are, among others: Acusmatrix (2008), Catexis (2010), Double Bind (2012), Neural Narratives 1: Phantom Limb (2013), Neural Narratives 2: Polytopya (2015), Piano & Dancer (2016), The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (2017) and Oecumene (2019), which recently premiered at Piksel festival in Bergen. All these
works have toured extensively nationally and internationally in both dance and music networks.
The productions utilize tailor-made technologies, often developed as part of large, pioneering European research projects, such as the Horizon 2020 projects WholoDance, Metabody or D.A.N.C.E. These projects have led Stocos to collaborate closely with groups and institutions working with art and science such as Conventry Univerity, Politecnico de Milano, Motek, TMA Hellerau, Hyperbody TU Delft, Brunel University, K Danse and REverso among others. Instituto Stocos also organizes cultural events that disseminate transdisciplinary artistic forms involving new technologies in the field of art and science. The theoretical body they generate is studied in conservatories and universities all over the world.
Photo: Ximena Y Sergio
Muriel Romero (Murcia, 1972) is a dancer and choreographer. Her work investigates generative choreographic structures and the incorporation of abstractions taken from other disciplines such as music or mathematics. She has won several international prizes such as Moscow International Ballet Competition, Prix de la Foundation de Paris Prix de Laussane and Premio Nacional de Danza. She has been first soloist in some of the most prestigious companies around the world including Deutsche Opera Berlin, Dresden Semper Opera Ballet, Bayerisches Staatsballet Munchen, Gran Théatre de Genéve and Compañia Nacional de Danza. During her career she has worked with renowned contemporary choreographers such as William Forsythe, Jiří Kylian, Ohad Naharin, Nacho Duato and Saburo Teshigawara. She currently teaches at the Professional Conservatory of Madrid, where she also lives.
Photo: Ximena Y Sergio
Pablo Palacio (Laredo, 1976) is an independent composer who focuses on algorithmic approaches in music and the sonification of physical movement, currently living in Madrid. His compositions have been performed nationally and internationally, and they are released by the label Sub Rosa in the Anthology of Noise and Electronic Music. He co-directs Instituto Stocos, an interdisciplinary artist-group that creates artworks, develops technologies and publishes research on the interaction between body gesture, music and interactive visual imagery. He has disseminated this work through publications, workshops, and talks in conservatories, university conferences and art institutions such as International Symposium of Movement and Computing, International Computer Music Conference, Missouri State University, and Kunsthall Trondheim among many others.
Header photo: Gunter Krammer
Supported by:
PICE Mobility Grants Accion Cultural Espanola
