Full panorama corresponding to three video channels - real time recording of a live performance (54 min.)
“Frequenzwechsel” originated from a small series of audiovisual concerts/events at Kunstwerk-Köln (Artspace in Cologne/Germany) in "2008 The group started working on different concepts of combining live-video and live-sound, as well as focusing on spatial interaction; using their technical setups for sound- and imageprojection as functional tools to build up the whole events/performances as pieces of “live/realtime-installation-art”.
Visitors to the performances could walk around the entire exhibition space, listening to and looking at sound-producing activities, livevideo- processing; changing their perspectives via positioning in different areas and/or following the live-spatialisation of sound signals. thereby up to 20 different situations, small areas – „islands of sound“ – were established: including microsound preparations from raw electronics; producing sound in kinetical/mechanical ways (through a feedback-chain of light-sensors and servomotors), cross-modulation of radio frequencies, microphoned objects (metal and other material), rotating wireless loudspeakers, modular arrays of oscillators, effects and vintage amplifiers, long-spring/string-instruments, contact-miked Windows and other sounding elements of the architecture. These signals were generated, processed and mixed live in an improvisational manner/method/mode by - players/performers.
The visual performance part (& huge video projections) was produced live by Matthias Neuenhofer, working with a set-up of three projectors controlled by pd-video-patches. He developed his own technique of recording video material in combination with meta data of gps-positioning and 3-d-orientation. Via software-processing he focuses on the transformation of digital images like displacement, distorting and fragmenting of image elements, video-feedback and visualising gps-data like tracing positions. Installation Kunstwerk 08 08 Fishermen on the beach of Salalah, in the desert state Oman. With a great number of people and the help of pickups, the fishing net is pulled onto the land.
The camera observes the people, scans the actions and animals. For example, the rays, which are pulled onto the beach, remain there gasping for breath until they are 'nally cut up alive.
In the installation, these observations are cut into short samples, moved and composed in real-time. Each video-sample is repeatedly visible depending on its length and stretch on the reconstructed path of the camera. Detailed and focused drawings are evoked by the moving images. Depending on their original sounds the trail of the camera is modulated. The trembling, searching and finding of the hand camera determine the characteristic style of the lines which, as abstract tapes, also construct the composition of the pictures. These tapes transform to surfaces and form the virtual space of the experienced time which in turn successively disintegrates so that new views of the real pictures are exposed.
The frequency analysis of the sound and the characteristic style of the camera are interrelated with each other and form a composition which endlessly reorganizes itself and in which the pictures reveal new perspectives because of the different relations to each other. The video-organism has been programmed with the Pure-Data/GEM so+ware and is generated live on a computer. All the relationships in which the basic materials (video and tracking data samples) process form a nonlinear time continuum, which 'ts in the presentation as a linear experience, like the spatial structure in a virtual two-dimensional projection.
http://matthias.neuenhofer.de/frequenzwechsel
http://www.frequenzwechsel.net