Bobby McFerrin, "Watch Me Play...the Audience!"
Considerations:
- What senses does McFerrin evoke in this performance?
- What part does synesthesia play?
- How does McFerrin use both himself and the audience as media?
- From Viola's website: http://www.sfmoma.org/media/features/viola/BV01.html
- Use of materials as media - water/fire
- Visceral reaction to the synesthesia of seeing water/fire devour a human body - haptic/tactile
- The soundtrack of the water hitting the body - auditory
- The facial reaction of the man, slowed down - the stretching of time opens up an emotional/relational sense of connection
- Finally the symbolic use of fire and water: Viola uses a lot of religious iconography in his work.
- NoiseFold, in a word, amalgamates adjective, noun and verb. The name can conjure an immediate reference to noise music with its loud, near unbearable volumes, radical explorations of extreme frequencies, disjunctive ruptures, glitches and wall of sound dynamics.
- Utilizing our own custom designed real-time performance software we are able to generate novel 3D visual forms through hybrid processes, bending geometric coordinates and folding multiple data streams back on themselves
- The visual images oscillate from fluid deformations of virtual objects to archetypal landscapes and speculative architectures. As in other NoiseFold works, the visual data is sonified to produce a rich pallet of electronic sound. The work is designed for multi-screen and multi-speaker configuration that provide opportunities for the trio to join in duets, perform solos or share data between the individual performers. Combining cinema, data sonification and acoustic music as an integral whole, NoiseFold and Uitti seek to extend network media performance into the realm of contemporary chamber music.
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