I made the first official performance of Warp, for the final exhibition of the visual art class at IUAV university in Venice, held by Cesare Pietroiusti and Filipa Ramos.This work is a kind of research on a new way to represent time's flow, alternative to the usual linear-spatial timeline and to give the viewer a new experience of time. So i worked with a friend from hacienda sonora to produce some sounds that could be played togheter to express that concept. Slowing down and accelerating a clock-like sound, and mixing it with other, is the way i choose to work on this theme.
The sound installation has a kind of spiral shape with a clock-like loop that makes a cicle added to other sounds. Every cicle has different sound mixes, that makes the spiral concept. At around 75% of cicle length, all sounds are covered by a big bass sound (around 63 Hz) that is perceived more by vibration than by sound. That creates a sort of suspension of the time (that can be related with variuos concept: end of sound-->end of time-->end of everything. escatology!) As you can see in the report pictures (made by Manuela Romanato) the live set configuration was made by 2 Apple MacBook Pro Laptop, an Akai MPD24 Midi Controller, and an M-Audio UC-33e Midi Controller.
Here a link of the audio recorded during the performance:
Warp live report by aaron inker
warning: some of the sounds in the clip work on a frequency that the normal pc/laptop speaker cannot reproduce. for a better hearing use good level stereo speaker or good level stereo headphones.
The concept of an apocalyptic cage is intriguing and ripe for exploration through sound art.
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