Petard
by depart on Juli 7, 2004
“PETARD”:
our synapsisyntactical dewelloperawe
live A/V performance for synced fragmented audio & video, mostly improvised live
duration: variable
DEPART used patched reaktors and gems to craft and drill shimmering synthaestheoretic momentals in reeltime and space out. Twitching sound fragments and video snippets like twisted twins, DEPART’s first realtime audiovisual performance was a demanding but mandatory experience. intriguing combinations of flip-floppy hazardous movements in frequency and perspective, audiences were shocked and awed by the sheer force of what Kandinsky only could paint about in still images: audiovisual sculptures, proliferated, processed and projected in realtime.
PETARD was an alias used from 2003-2008.
Various live performances including:
Microsope Sessions , Dresden, Germany
Basics Festival 2004, Salzburg, Austria
Animac Festival 2004, Lleida, Spain
Cimatics Festival 2004, Bruxelles, Belgium
Being Odysseus
by depart on Juli 3, 2004
“Being Odysseus” – sirens in software, cyclops in code
Mellow-dram-o-rama for one performer and interactive motion-tracking stage with reactive audio/video, ca. 60 minutes
Odysseus, archetypical browser of land and sea, the i-am-a-wanderer galore, on his deathbedrock, performing the proverbial journey through important memories of his life, captain mnemo’s technological multimediary. Circe, Polyphem, Hades and a peculiar german scholar join in on the cruise of bruises. A reinterpretation of events based on ideas of Homer and Dante.
The interactive stage was built using EyeCon, a frame-grabbing motion-tracking software and DEPART’s weapons of choice at that time, NI Reaktor and PureData. The performer was able to roam freely, activating and influencing parts and aspects of the video and soundtrack. Specific zones of action were propelling the story and also changing the stage setup automatically.
“Being Odysseus” was DEPART’s first endeavour into realtime motion-tracking, realized in collaboration with Senselabor.
Commissioned by Trans-Media-Akademie Hellerau, shown at CynetArt Festival 2004, Dresden, Germany
Performer: Georg Hobmeier
Video: Leonhard Lass
Sound: Gregor Ladenhauf
