sonic blue red tracings / Kamisonic blue red tracings / Kami

01/01/2010
Blau/rot gefärbtes Haar, japanische Papierrollen, Stimme, Flöte, Piezo-Membran, Laptop

Komponist/Performer:
Ros Bandt Melbourne, Australia
Johannes S. Sistermanns, 2008
60’00

UA: 17.6.2010 t-u-b-e München,
Artist-in-Residence 2008
University of Wakayama, Japan
Percy Grainger Museum CD Präs.

Gefördert von Kulturamt Stadt Köln / 'Gemeinsamen Stiftungen Geschwister Abelen und Karl Bau" / ARTS VICTORIA Melbourne
CD tracings artist.cd/WERGOBlue/red dyed hair, jap. paperrolls, voice, flute, loudspeaker, laptop

Composer/Performer
Ros Bandt Melbourne, Australia
Johannes S. Sistermanns, Bornheim/Germany, 2008
60’00

Premiere: 17.6.2010 t-u-b-e Munich
Artist-in-Residence 2008
University of Wakayama, Japan
Percy Grainger Museum CD Launch

Supported by ARTS VICTORIA Melbourne / City of Cologne / 'Gemeinsamen Stiftungen Geschwister Abelen und Karl Bau"
CD tracings artist.cd/WERGO

+++The piece investigates the changing identities and cross cultural influences brought, experienced and exchanged by the two artists in a foreign place, Wakayama Japan, represented in the colours of red and blue hair. ++++++The piece investigates the changing identities and cross cultural influences brought, experienced and exchanged by the two artists in a foreign place, Wakayama Japan, represented in the colours of red and blue hair. +++Their encounters and exchanges are interpreted through a range of media, paper, red and blue hair dye, suspended paper hair paintings which are amplified, electro-acoustic spatial sound, illuminated coloured scores, digital images, installation and live action sound painting and performance.

Weitere Performances
Moltkerei Werkstatt Köln 2010
t-u-b-e München 2010
Forum Wallis Brig/Schweiz 2011

*Identity | Difference | Cultural Setting*
The red and blue pigments, commonly used by the artists in hair dye, are symbols of difference and identity which can blend, contrast and fuse to transform themselves, the space and the acoustic environment into a resonant and illuminated immersive sound environment. The room becomes a place of sonic exchange, trading and sharing familiar, foreign, exotic sound gestures between cultures, a room to experience, to wonder, hear, feel the relationships of different cultures coming together through surround sound, light, illuminated coloured notations and sound performance. The sum of the parts yield a series of mutations not possible without the collaboration.

The created work will change and mutate in each cultural setting. The mediated paper and hair will render these differences in each performance as a reminder of the powerful role culture, time and place play in our daily lives.

*Kami*
The two artists created the piece as guests of Wakayama university working in a studio on the 6th floor of the Forte building in Wakayama Japan. This common foreign context sharpened the experience of exchange. After seven days of experimentation, photography, sound recording, filming, and amplified sound hair painting by the artists, it was found that the Japanese word for paper and hair is shared, Kami. The rendering of identities through different media had left the visual traces on the paper, and the sound in the air and memory, the hair and paper becoming one in a time space shared by two people.Their encounters and exchanges are interpreted through a range of media, paper, red and blue hair dye, suspended paper hair paintings which are amplified, electro-acoustic spatial sound, illuminated coloured scores, digital images, installation and live action sound painting and performance.

Other performances
Moltkerei Werkstatt Köln Germany 2010
t-u-b-e Munich Germany 2010
Forum Wallis Brig/Switzerland 2011

*Identity | Difference | Cultural Setting*
The red and blue pigments, commonly used by the artists in hair dye, are symbols of difference and identity which can blend, contrast and fuse to transform themselves, the space and the acoustic environment into a resonant and illuminated immersive sound environment. The room becomes a place of sonic exchange, trading and sharing familiar, foreign, exotic sound gestures between cultures, a room to experience, to wonder, hear, feel the relationships of different cultures coming together through surround sound, light, illuminated coloured notations and sound performance. The sum of the parts yield a series of mutations not possible without the collaboration.

The created work will change and mutate in each cultural setting. The mediated paper and hair will render these differences in each performance as a reminder of the powerful role culture, time and place play in our daily lives.

*Kami*
The two artists created the piece as guests of Wakayama university working in a studio on the 6th floor of the Forte building in Wakayama Japan. This common foreign context sharpened the experience of exchange. After seven days of experimentation, photography, sound recording, filming, and amplified sound hair painting by the artists, it was found that the Japanese word for paper and hair is shared, Kami. The rendering of identities through different media had left the visual traces on the paper, and the sound in the air and memory, the hair and paper becoming one in a time space shared by two people.

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