anode 2009

Pulse is an exclusive short season of site-specific multimedia performances on a breath taking Melbourne CBD rooftop. Pulse seeks to reveal new relationships between body and architecture, by reframing the city rooftop as a neglected plateau, a second street were new forms may emerge in the urban landscape, elevated and and transformed through multimedia mutations of sound, image and flesh.

Friday 6th & Saturday 7th November 2009
Site-specific sound art performances on a rooftop in Northcote
Doors 8.00pm for an 8.30pm start

Venue: 
Rear 55 High St corner of Westgarth St, Northcote (Above Headquarters)

Tickets:
$20/$15 online  and at the door
BUY TICKETS HERE

Website: Pulse Rooftop

'Common Tongue', a vulnerable performer lost in the crowd, attempts to communicate in disordered movements while wired with accelerometers which dataflow is interpreted by a neural learning algorithm. Activating and playing back the field recording sounds of the audience the performer is making up from scratch a language from his new lexicon of movements producing sounds in an ambiophonic multi-channel environment. Common Tongue is a taming game between the audience and the performer.

'METAMORPHOSIS 4 2' explores the affective nature of the transitionary state and its relationship to the performer and the environment as a measured potential to persist toward transformation. As a site-specific work, METAMORPHOSIS aims to address the unique conditions of the performance space to shape the spatial and spectral morphologies together with the performers response to the electroacoustic work. METAMORPHOSIS is a work for two performers with electronic music over eight loudspeakers using classic diffusion techniques, ambisonic treatment and live manipulation.

Martin Renaud is a French-Canadian interdisciplinary artist and producer living in Melbourne. He presented Performance Art and Media Art in various festivals in Canada and in Australia, at Anode Festival, Dancehouse, Next Wave Festival, Big West Festival, etc. Martin’s performances are inspired by Nicolas Bourriaud’s Esthetique Relationnelle and FLUXUS.

Jeffrey Hannam is a Masters candidate at RMIT in the School of Architecture and Design. His project ‘Enabling Spatial Systems for Performance’ investigates design methods and techniques to enable the formulation and integration of design strategies for medium to large spatial sound concerts. Jeffrey is a project member of the Urban Soundscape group and the Australian Research Council funded project 'The Spatial Ensemble'