Adriano Abbado in residence at C&CRS 2002
An extract from Adriano's description of his residency during the Summer of 2002 (taken from: Candy, L. and Edmonds, E., The COSTART Exhibition at C&C2002. in Creativity & Cognition 2002. Loughborough, UK, 2002. LUSAD Publications, p11-22.)
I went to Loughborough in July 2002 with the idea of creating a new audiovisual piece about noise. The kind of equipment and the knowledge I found there quickly made me think it was worth turning the piece into an interactive installation: an interesting challenge for me. Of course there are countless ways to interact with such a rich audiovisual environment In this case, the piece is composed of several predefined sequences, in a preordered manner. However, instead of dealing with parameters such as pitch, hue, or dimension, the user is concentrated into controlling the flow of audiovisual events. In other words, the focus is on macrostructures instead of single events: the coupling of audio with video. Creating an audiovisual piece is always a confrontation with a new language. And it is therefore more interesting for me is to see what sort of balance between the two signals and between sources and filters a user can define.
I went to Loughborough in July 2002 with the idea of creating a new audiovisual piece about noise. The kind of equipment and the knowledge I found there quickly made me think it was worth turning the piece into an interactive installation: an interesting challenge for me. Of course there are countless ways to interact with such a rich audiovisual environment In this case, the piece is composed of several predefined sequences, in a preordered manner. However, instead of dealing with parameters such as pitch, hue, or dimension, the user is concentrated into controlling the flow of audiovisual events. In other words, the focus is on macrostructures instead of single events: the coupling of audio with video. Creating an audiovisual piece is always a confrontation with a new language. And it is therefore more interesting for me is to see what sort of balance between the two signals and between sources and filters a user can define.
