Visual Performances
PostBK
Grab from video, Caceres, LaptopsRus reunion (Spain), July 2009.
PostBK is based on recording from the camera used above the turntable on Bikini Kill performances. Recording of many performances are mixed during PostBK emphasizing the relevance on the process. To this footage new one is added, of the objects being manipulated in a way that touches a show of magic.
Bikini Kill VJset version In Memorium (para) Stockhausen
Image of the turn table, Obidos (Portugal), June 2008.
Magenta Interior has invited Brendan Byrne to come and play. This is an interdimentional and international collaboration between humans and physics.
This audiovisual performance is determined by the pre-improvised visuals by Magenta Interior, which will generate both rhythm and timbre programmed and played live by Brendan Byrne using PD.
Bikini Kill
Image from the screen, Monkeytown, NYC (USA), January 2008.
Video of the performance at Monkeytown
Video of the performance at SHARE, NYC, January 2008
Bikini Kill is the name of this set and is an homage to the punk girls band with the same name.
As a VJ set, Bikini Kill is a visual mix using collected objects, represented in film and played live during the performance. These objects are part of the performer's personal history, collected during travels, that represent a thought, an encounter or celebrate a moment. These objects are sometimes also allusions to a dream. During the performance, objects are transformed in to a story, made up to the sound track of the music and unique for each audience. This set is a personal and practical reflection regarding technology, its uses, misuses and creative uses, reason for the turntable as the central device for the creation of images.
Photoalbum as audiovisual performance
QBar in Falmouth (UK), November 2007
This performance is one with a party.
Idea by Ana Carvalho, with participations of Magenta Interior as VJ, Madam Ming as DJ and Anita as traveller entertainer.
Special participation of Brendan Byrne.
The way in which the audience is actively involved in the process of making this performance makes it unique.
To start with, this is a performance, party and celebration of togetherness with a group of people. As the organizing collective, we created the performance having in mind this specific audience. We asked them to send us photos and music, by e-mail. The idea was to reunite content relevant to describe a period of four years (until the time of the performance in November 2007) and this way inviting the audience to participate in the process. From the collected (without selection) material we prepared a soundtrack as well as a database of photographs. The content of audios and visuals from parties, art projects, travels and other moments; the ones who took the photos, made or selected the music and are in them and are also the same ones this event is dedicated to.
Brendan joined later the organizing collective with his work on the development, for the occasion, of a patch in PD that would change settings in the visuals and transform according to the beat of the music.
Telling the story of a journey as visual performance
Image of the table with objects to perform with.
During a one week journey in September 2005 I collected objects I found interesting and that would refresh my memories of the places I visited in the future. My collection included bills from several purchases, postcards, catalogues, a dead butterfly I found on the street, a flower, sweets, etc.
These elements, visible proof of my experience in new places, are transformed, through the use of a camera and a visual mixer, during a performative situation, in abstract visual patterns. Is through my sense of rhythm and mood I get from the music that conducts the visuals.
Rotating colors
This set is a result of research on several materials and technologies to make visual shapes with colors. For this purpose I constructed a very simple rotating mechanism, which combined with colorful plastics (some simple and some others with patterns and shapes), would create colorful visual ambiances. Using a camera, I record the colors and with the mixer new patterns are created. Children's toys and other shiny and sparkling objects are combined (recurring to camera and visual mixer) to create patterns. For this visual performance objects are also transformed in colors and light. The performer through the play with objects and technology becomes visible and part of the performance as much as the projected visual result.