NIME - Performance note · posted by vaibhav bhawsar Sep 29, 19:34
Messa Di Voce is a collaboration between sound poet Japp Blonk and Joan La Barbara , media artists/musicians Golan Levin and Zach Lieberman .
In this performance a number of sound poems are supported by real-time visualizations.
The performance touches on themes of abstract communication, synaesthetic relationships, cartoon language, and writing and scoring systems, within the context of a sophisticated, playful, and virtuosic audiovisual narrative.
The performance blends together the spontaneity of the sound poems with the visuals generated by the program. Because this performance is playful, the artist and the screen are seamless and its interesting to observe the interplay between the two.
In some ways the activity on screen leverages/augments the sound poems (considering its an expert technique of the artist- in this case Jaap Blonk).
There is also something magical about pure syllables and their lucid visual representations.
Overall the shape of sound (phonesthesia) is an interesting idea that this performance/project successfully explores.
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