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MUSIC AND MOVING IMAGE
Examples of videoworks for stage and live-music-performances
Coincidence and Necessity
Construction - Deconstruction - Abstraction
Our world today is full with contradictions. On one side, there is a pessimistic vision of the future with its collapse of the ecological environment, with wars, poverty and hunger. On the other side, there is progress of technology and its promises to bring better times.
People were never so near and at the same time so far from each other. Television and its messages through its programmes, news and advertisements is reaching the farest destinations of the Globe. And yet, are there more communication bridges build? Travelling around the world doesn't necessarily bring more understanding of other culture. We are loosing overview of our life the same way as we are loosing overview over our environment. While we are innocently having a glimpse over beautiful landscapes, we are stumbling already over the first obstacles, to see dying trees, poisoned clouds and overpopulated cities. And yet, one stays alone behind in a play of shadows of virtual reality. Here we are passing the threshold into artificial land of the surrogates of media realities.
We are using video as a medium to underline the abstraction of the music, but in the same way to give our own visions. Images are appearing in a form of collage. Its expression mode can be also transformed by active participation of the viewer. On one side there are fragmented mirrored images presenting some realistic moments, on the other side the material offers a chance to build a space with different combinations. It is left to the viewer to find the way, to read the construction, deconstruction or abstraction.
This lecture is supported with examples of video documentations of concerts of contemporary music in which we were participating as video artists. The works were mostly produced in last three years in a co-operation with the Studio for Electro-acoustic Music at the Academy for Arts (Akademie der Künste) in Berlin.
Urban Wasteland Theory, 1999, Video/Concert;
Music composed by Ulrich Krieger
Video and video installation by Ingeborg Fülepp
Installation for the concert is created as a symbolical simulation of musical notation visualized on the stage by ten hanging video monitors. While musicians are playing the music the video is running from six different video sources. On each monitor there is a system of changing colours in random rhythms. During the concert video is perceived as it follows the rhythms of music. This occurrence is the result of image construction based on the coincidental changes of video images in relation to the predetermined musical composition.
First shown as a stage-installation for live-music (Zeitkratzer-Ensemble) in Berlin, january 1999.
The Cold Enemy (Der Kältefeind), 1999, Video/Concert
Music composed by Boris Hagenbart
Video Ingeborg Fülepp, video installation Heiko Daxl
The music of Boris Hegenbart is dealing with basic electronic signals. The images of the video installation are based on the white-noise video signal. The two elements (music and video) are fighting permanently with each other during the performance. But in some moments they are in synchronicity. The video images from 4 different parallel sources are distributed on sixteen monitors,. This performance is a combination of rhythms of music with the rhythms of images by using the purest abstraction of the electronic signal in movement.
First shown as a stage-installation for live-music (Zeitkratzer-Ensemble) in Berlin, january 1999.
was born in Zagreb, Croatia. Lives and works in Berlin/Germany
and Zagreb/Croatia. She studied at Zagreb University - Film and
Video Editing (BA.), Harvard University - Interactive Technologies
(Ed.M.) and multimedia at Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
the Media Laboratory. From 1978 - 1993 was teaching film and video
editing at Zagreb University. From 1983 visiting lecturer for
AV media in Great Britain, USA, Netherlands and Germany. From
1997-99 guest professor for design of new media at Academy for
Film and Television (HFF), Posdam-Babelsberg in Germany.
From 1975 - 1994 worked as professional film and video editor.
Since 1986 working on interactive multimedia projects, video installations
and video art. Co-founder and artistic director of MEDIA-SCAPE
and "media in motion" (together with Heiko Daxl). Actively
participating international symposiums and conferences. Awarded
by several scholarships and fellowships from the Academy of Arts
and Science in Zagreb, Harvard University and Goethe Institute.