NO1 – Mathias Lenz / Patrik Lechner / Peter Kutin
ROTOЯ
Concert / Premiere
Dates
10.10.2020
Details
10.10., 16:00 and 17:00
Location
Dom im Berg
Graz
Part of
musikprotokoll 2020
Production specifics
In cooperation with SHAPE – Sound, Heterogeneous Art and Performance in Europe
Supported by the Creative Europe program of the European Union
Peter Kutin is a SHAPE Artist 2020
Last year, Peter Kutin was the first solo artist from Austria to win the Golden Nica at Prix Ars Electronica in the category Digital Musics and Sound Art with TORSO#1. A work from the series Rotating Sounds,TORSO is, at the same time, a kinetic sculpture and an optoacoustic instrument for which the artist composed a piece. The starting point were a few worn-out speakers Kutin found in derelict area owned by the ÖBB.
In its design, TORSO calls to mind a klopotec; four loudspeakers revolve on four rotors. LED lights mounted on the rotors make it possible to directly experience the moving sound visually. TORSOaccelerates, slows down, and accelerates once again. In the process, the sound seems to nearly drill into the auditory canal, while the flickering and rotating light with its afterimages conjured up on the retina in the darkened space draw the audience in.
ROTOЯ follows on from this work. After its premiere at the MUTEK Festival in Montreal in 2019, it was steadily developed further and is now celebrating another premiere in Austria. By incorporating video projections timed to the movement of the object, ROTOЯ becomes a hologram-like sonic body and opens up an accelerated corridor of associations.
Hardware and development: Mathias Lenz
Video: Patrik Lechner
Concept and music: Peter Kutin
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