Audiovisual performance (Sonolight)
audio-visual performance by Ge-Suk Yeo
Duration: 10:00 - 60:00 min
Pulse
Dancing under the electronic moon.
Wheels
Turning wheels - everywhere.
Wheels live
Wheels - the video
Sonolight
It is night. Light shines through a window and is reflected in a room. The piece interprets this surrealistic lightshow musically and visually.
Sonolight
Fishmoon
A poetic view at the moon, from the perspective of fish underwater.
Fish Moon - live
Fish Moon - the video
Deng-grang
A crystal ball jumps on the floor - in an empty fish bowl: back and forth.
Blue fish
A radio - a robot dog. On the radio someone tells a story about a blue fish who dreams of a visit on land... - a surreal lullaby.
Silence
Someone talks about music. At the beginning and end of a piece of music is silence: "Is the silence the opposite of sounding music or sound itself?" - "Or is it even part of the music?" Anyways - the music continues.
Sweet bird
A radio, birds and a humna beeing. Whoever hears what and how? The piece plays with the exchange and the simultaneity of perspectives.
The electro-acoustic music is on radio sounds, accordion and soprano voice.
The text in the video is taken from the aria 'Sweet Bird' part of the opera 'Il Pensieroso' by Georg Friedrich Handel.
Sweet Bird
Libretto Sweet Bird aus Il Penseroso (für Sopran-Stimme):
Sweet bird, that shun'st the noise of folly,
Most musical, most melancholy!
Thee, chauntress, oft the woods among,
I woo to hear thy even-song.
Or, missing thee, I walk unseen,
On the dry smooth-shaven green,
To behold the wand'ring moon
Riding near her highest noon.
Sweet bird. . .
Telefone dog
Humorous view of a dialogue between a dog and the voice of a telephone handset.
Pulse 2
Dancing under the electronic moon. II
Birds People Rain
Birds. People. - In the rain, everything is blurred and changed mysteriously.
Bird Human Rain
Omog Omog
Omog is a East Asian board game. Its usally played on a grid of lines and with black and white playing pieces. This is the base material of Ge-Suk Yeo's audiovisual work Omog Omog.
Omog Omog
Technical Data
Title: 'Sonolight'
an audiovisual performance
Sonolight I
1. Pulse
2. Wheels
3. Sonolight
4. Fishmoon
Sonolight II
1. Deng-grang
2. Blue fish
3. Silence
4. Sweet bird
5. Telefone dog
Sonolight III
1. Pulse 2
2. Birds People Rain
3. Omog Omog
Production software
Audio:
- STEINBERG CUBASE 4.5
- TC ELECTRONIC POWERCORE FIREWIRE
to use some filters
- UNIVERSAL AUDIO UAD-1
to use even more filters
Video:
- Adobe After Effects CS3
- Adobe Premiere Elements 3.0
- Adobe PhotoShop CS 3
Equipment live performance
Software:
Ableton Live (Audio Mixing)
STEIM JunXion
OSculator (OSC Managment)
TouchOSC (iPod Touch OSC Controller)
Vidvox VDMX (Video Mixing)
Hardware:
MacBook Pro
tc Konnekt 24
Novation Launchpad
Korg nano series
iPod Touch
Outputs:
Video:
4:3 Video Signal for up to 5 Beamer
Stereo Audio Signal
What's needed for live performance:
Wall for Video projection (min 4x3m)
1-5 LCD-Beamer
High end speakers (depending on size of room)