context
An interactive instillation to be entered in festival, gallery or public space
concept
A wall that emphasizes the movement and connections of individuals passing through a public space. Projecting exaggerated shadows onto the space. Surprise sounds and color changes highlight the connections of individuals passing each other. This interaction will hopefully encourage a user to stop and interact with other shadows to create colorful music together.
content
A camera captures the silhouette of a person standing or passing in front of the wall and displays that shape as an exaggerated shadow. When two shadows overlap, the shadows changes color and a pleasing sound is triggered.
2010
Audio Ergo Sum Festival @ Washington Park, Brooklyn NY
This Friday June 5 2009 – One Step Beyond finishes its second season with a blow out spectacular featuring electro pioneer MOBY along with sets from Holy Ghost!, Martin Moscrop, and Activaire DJs. Visuals from The VISIONS Company – Benton-C Bainbridge, V Owen Bush & Chris Jordan, with special guests Adam Kendall and CHiKA.
9pm – 1am
Enjoy complimentary screenings of SonicVision, a groundbreaking digitally animated alternative music show. SonicVision takes audiences in the Hayden Planetarium Space Theater on a mind-warping musical roller-coaster ride through fantastical dreamspace. With a mix by Moby and featuring tracks from Radiohead, U2, David Bowie, Coldplay, Queens of the Stone Age, Prodigy, The Flaming Lips, Fischerspooner, Spiritualized, Audioslave, Stereolab, Boards of Canada, David Byrne and Brian Eno, Goldfrapp, Zwan, White Zombie, and Moby, the music ignites this one-of-a-kind computer-generated musical and visual experience, which uses next-generation digital technology to illuminate the Planetarium’s dome with a dazzling morphing of colorful visions.
SonicVision features the work of over 19 animators and contributing artists. It is directed by Chris Harvey, and Edited by V Owen Bush, Benton-C Bainbridge was a contributing artist.
Tickets are $25 and include a free pass to the Museum for future use.
Sommeil sleep concerts are all-night events in which the audience is asked to attend the concert with a sleeping bag and pillow and to fall asleep while a slowly unfolding sonic texture evolves over the course of the night and into the morning. People attending the event are asked to be willing to sleep during the event or at least to remain silent during the course of the nine hour experience.
Not merely a recreation of Rich Rich’s original idea, Sommeil is a conceptual, global remix of a performance type that addresses one of the most basic functionalities of ambient and environmental sound; music by which to sleep. This version features a track by Jeremy Bible and Jason Henry. In the original performances sleep music from one hundred artists from around the globe are remixed and mashed up over the course of the night.
071109 Ingenuity Festival Cleveland Ohio
041109 Antenna Gallery New Orleans, LA
In today’s connected world we have many new methods of collaborating, and many technical and artistic problems that arise in the process.
These two artists bring this chasm into focus and explore the possibilities given by these constraints.
This project intersects i8u’s minimal yet powerful sound sculptures and CHiKA’s geometric minimalist patterns to create a work that expresses the examination and limitations of itself.
