Yesterday (Friday June 11, 2008) the final performance finally took place.
After 5 days of hard work we finally put together 55 minutes of interactive sound and video and presented it to roughly 70 people watching and listening in the “Alte Aula” of Folkwang Hochschule. Neil gave an excellent example of his art of Sax-Playing, holding the tension throuout the piece with expressions ranging from delicate soft breathings to the most vivid, hectic solos in other parts. He accompanied himself with some fine-tuned effects from his laptop (a few from mine as well :-) ), while Anthony and Spencer took care for the musical textures that were less sax-oriented.
The visual layer finally turned out to be made of three parts. There was video based on Material generated and heavily processed by Dietrich and Claudius, Interactiv Vector-Based Graphics by Stefan (Kainbacher) and last not least black and white swarms, flocks and particles by Stefan (Kreitmayer).
Though being quite exaustive with around 10 hours of work together every day plus additional individual work during the nights (especially by Neil and Claudius generating Video), there was always an athmosphere of excitement about what could be achieved in only five days, and everyone was eager to give his best into this work.
I want to thank everybody who took part in this joyful experience and who helped to make it happen. I’d like to say a very special Thank You to Neil, Anthony and Spencer for crossing half the planet to participate, and to Claudius who initiated this idea.
In our house I want also to thank Martin Preu for his support concerning the audio equipment and our stage crew for setting up and lighting the stage.
For the impatient: I put a rough mixdown of the final performance as an mp3 to this 55-Site: mixdown.mp3 (76 mb)
Have a nice time and take care,
Thomas
