Artistic Direction
2023

BIENNALE MUSICA 2023-MICRO-MUSIC-TESE DEI SOPPALCHI- J.CHOI / S.DORNIER

JAEHOON CHOI 
BRUSHING IMPROVISATION NO. 2
Mapped brushing gestures through mediated technologies
Year: 2023
20’, world premiere
Improvisation, performance, programming, instrument building: Jaehoon Choi
Production: La Biennale di Venezia - CIMM, Centro di Informatica Musicale Multimediale

SEVERIN DORNIER
KAIJŪ
An audio-visual performance for mechanical species
Year/Length: 2023, 20’, world premiere
Composition, programming, set design: Severin Dornier
Production: La Biennale di Venezia - CIMM, Centro di Informatica Musicale Multimediale
Brushing Improvisation – N°2 is an improvisational performance newly formulated for the Biennale Musica 2023. It aims to transform the nuanced materiality of the brush and brushing gestures into a musical/sonic expression through mediated technology. For the performance, I use the Brushing Interface, which is a self-made physical interface that detects the position and pressure of the brushing gesture and its sound in real time. The improvisation is aroused from my deep inter-relation with the interface as a builder and performer, and my body takes the central role in this creative process.

Kaijū is a concert performance in which the audience experiences the awakening of an insectoid hexapod robot in an artificial, desert-like environment. The concert hall turns metaphorically into a giant spider itself and the audience sees and listens to the world through the sensory apparatus of the robot. Are we experiencing the beginning of artificial life? A futuristic utopia; a future scenario in which our planet has returned to an earlier stage and only the legacy of technology has survived our human civilisation? Or even a logical next step in the “origin of species”?
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