Keywords: concert, audiovisual, metamorphosis, no wave, improvisation

I C::ntr::l Nature

World Premiere: 10th Venice Architecture Biennale 2006, Venice

I C::ntr::l Nature is a synaesthetic action of audiovisual improvisation. A gigantic, stringy life form struggles to take life, the convulsions slowly transform its shape in a brand-new body, at last a caterpillar is revealed. From now on its whole life cycle is semantically deconstructed. While the new born butterfly feed itself, its microscopic, meaningless world becomes an immersive and surreal ambient.

Where minimal and organic sounds mutate in fearful drones its last beat of wings will finally defeat the fire of Nature. The live act represents the sarcastic celebration of the human instinct finally able to govern the nature. The improvised body gestures of the performer sculpt in real-time the soundscape and the moving images. The living creature on the screen reacts to the movements of the performer on stage in a mutual agreement and attraction.

The project was performed using a self-designed Human-Computer Interface called C::NTR::L. Thanks to its complex pitch detection and controls trigger system the software allowed a user to process in real-time audio and visual signals simply playing a fretted musical instrument. C::NTR::L is free software released under GPL license, although it is not maintained anymore. For further information and download please visit http://cntrl.sourceforge.net.

Exhibitions

Version 3.0

  • TEN, Performance Art Marathon
    Lanificio159, Roma, Italy, October 2010
  • FAD Festival de Arte Digital
    Teatro do Oi Futuro Klauss Vianna, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, September 2010
  • Flussi Festival
    Teatro Carlo Gesualdo, Avellino, Italy, August 2010
  • Pikslaverk
    Pixelache Network Útgerðin, Reykjavik, Iceland, May 2010
  • Mapping Festival
    Spoutnik Cinema, Geneva, May 2010
  • Pirate Party
    Capranica Theater, Rome, March 2010
  • AHAcktitude
    CS Cantiere, Milan, November 2009
  • Netaudio Festival
    Maria am Ostbahnof, Berlin, October 2009
  • roBOT Festival
    Palazzo Re Enzo, Bologna, Italy, September 2009
  • PureData International Convention
    SESC Pinheiros, Sao Paulo, Brazil, July 2009
  • S-Block Festival
    Interventionsraum, Stuttgart, Germany, May 2009
  • NEMO Festival
    LeCube, Paris, April 2009 (Premiere)

Version 2.0

  • Ausklang Festival
    Hamburg, Germany, December 2008
  • Cinesthesy (Visionsonic #1)
    Paris, October 2008

Version 1.0

  • Live Performers Meeting
    Mutye, Xalapa, Mexico, August 2008
  • Summer Camp
    Laboral, Gijon, Spain, July 2008
  • Seminario en Comunicacion Audiovisual
    S.Juan, Puerto Rico, June 2008
  • Max.Experimentell
    Stuttgart, Germany, May 2008
  • Vision(‘r) Festival
    Paris, April 2008
  • Cinetrip Vj Torna
    Budapest, February 2008

Beta version

  • White Night
    Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Roma, September 2007
  • Venice Biennale
    Venezia, November 2006

Format

Solo audiovisual performance.
Duration: 20 minutes
Media: electric bass guitar, custom interactive software, panoramic video projection

Credits

Marco Donnarumma – Concept, music, performance, programming