Live Video Ensemble
http://www.livevideoensemble.com/
Live Video Ensemble is a generative audio-video performance and workshop project conceived Claudio Sinatti and performed by a 10 element ensemble together with a musician or band.
The shows follow a 2/4 day workshop in wich 10 people are prepared for the execution of the performance.
We have invited electronic musicians such as Scanner, Teho Teardo and Byetone.
During the show the musician and the ensemble compose a single, abstract, completely improvised, yet perfectly synced, audio-video stream.
The visual track is performed in real time, using a custom generative software.
Images are controlled by the ensemble through a set of midi instruments connected to a single computer.
The software recieves the music and the performers can link it to different image parameters as well as controlling the scene manually.
The result is a highly organic audiovisual show in wich the sounds seem to be produced directly from the images.
The 4 day workshop preceding the show has the function of preparing the attendees for the performance.
Attendees are guided through all phases of production, from the analysis of the performance space to the technical setup, from software programming to content creation, from the use of the final instrument to free interpretation.
Live Video Ensamble project aimes to explore the grammatical nuances of an organic cinema in which the immersive and synaesthetic experience of the audience can be complete and in which the performer’s expression is emotionally free and unrestrained by technical limitations.
Live Video Ensamble means to share its research, involving people directly within the geographic area of the performance, and encourage exchange, investigation and interest in this practice.
