FOLD
Responsive Sound Enviroment
@ Montreal (2014)
F O L D’ is a performative environenment merging powerful optical architectures, compositions of structure born sound, and the aesthetics of chiaroscuro image, ‘F O L D’ envelops the spectator in the performative, theatrical and cinematic experience of self and the other.’
‘F O L D’ has been developed as a platform for interdisciplinary approaches to ‘performance’ and ‘performative environment. It is a stage of an ‘exhibition’; it’s a ‘cinema’; it’s a ‘concert’ and it’s a ‘contemporary dance’
Description:
Optical Architectures of the ‘ F O L D’ are formed by several elements. It includes mirrors suspended from the grid (28 mirrors 12″ x 72″), dark, nearly transparent shark-tooth fabric (3 folds 15 m x 4.5 m), 26 theatre lights, projection technology, a life-processed image, 16-28 transducers, 3 microphones. Through the play of light and darkness and the carefully pre-contemplated design configurations of the materials, all the elements compliment themselves structurally, optically and audibly, set at play of the virtual, and the actual, creating a temporal maze of infinities, forming a labyrinth of appearances and disappearances, memories and forgettings, sounds and echoes.
‘F O L D’ has been developed as a platform for interdisciplinary approaches to ‘performance’ and ‘performative environment. It is a stage of an ‘exhibition’; it’s a ‘cinema’; it’s a ‘concert’ and it’s a ‘contemporary dance’
Description:
Optical Architectures of the ‘ F O L D’ are formed by several elements. It includes mirrors suspended from the grid (28 mirrors 12″ x 72″), dark, nearly transparent shark-tooth fabric (3 folds 15 m x 4.5 m), 26 theatre lights, projection technology, a life-processed image, 16-28 transducers, 3 microphones. Through the play of light and darkness and the carefully pre-contemplated design configurations of the materials, all the elements compliment themselves structurally, optically and audibly, set at play of the virtual, and the actual, creating a temporal maze of infinities, forming a labyrinth of appearances and disappearances, memories and forgettings, sounds and echoes.
Sound in the project is both structure and air born. There are 16 – 28 transducers attached to each mirror forming, a spatial sonic ensemble within the optical architecture of the F O L D. 16 channel composition by Otso Lahdeoja is interwoven through the space via transducers that vibrate the mirrors and become a music instrument of unique architectural and spatial qualities completing the double function of the mirror: optical/visual, and audible/compositional. In addition, there are three microphones placed at each curve of the fold, each configured to different interactive settings developed by Joe Browne.
There are three folds in the alignment of the ‘Optical Architectures’ of the ‘F O L D’ Each fold is configured to its own setting. Each fold, on its own and independently of each other, provides actualities, virtualities, and the experience of the orchestra ensemble on the audible level.
Lenka Novakova: Concept / Direction
Otso Lahdeoja: Music / Sound Composition
Navid Navab: Image / Interactive design
Omar Faleh: Mapping / Consultation / Interactive design
Joseph Browne: Interactive Sound
Invisible Performers: November 7th, 2014
Navid Navab, Joseph Browne, Omar Faleh
Ted Stafford: Light Tech.
Technical Assistance: Pietro Cerone
Graphic Designer: Alena Nová
Event Coordinator: Pamela Tudge
Event Assistant: Julie Caron
Photo Credits: © Lenka Novakova, Omar Faleh
Video Credits: © Sonya Mladenova, Adina Vukovic, Karim Dogruel
There are three folds in the alignment of the ‘Optical Architectures’ of the ‘F O L D’ Each fold is configured to its own setting. Each fold, on its own and independently of each other, provides actualities, virtualities, and the experience of the orchestra ensemble on the audible level.
Lenka Novakova: Concept / Direction
Otso Lahdeoja: Music / Sound Composition
Navid Navab: Image / Interactive design
Omar Faleh: Mapping / Consultation / Interactive design
Joseph Browne: Interactive Sound
Invisible Performers: November 7th, 2014
Navid Navab, Joseph Browne, Omar Faleh
Ted Stafford: Light Tech.
Technical Assistance: Pietro Cerone
Graphic Designer: Alena Nová
Event Coordinator: Pamela Tudge
Event Assistant: Julie Caron
Photo Credits: © Lenka Novakova, Omar Faleh
Video Credits: © Sonya Mladenova, Adina Vukovic, Karim Dogruel