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Marco Donnarumma Augmented Media Performance @ WRO Biennale, 13th May

Marco Donnarumma — Fri, 13 May 2011 10:40:13 +0000

I Cntrl Nature | Audiovisual concert for augmented electric bass guitar, self-designed software and butterfly

I Cntrl Nature (Marco Donnarumma, 2009) is an unambiguous, synesthetic action of audiovisual improvisation.The live act represents the sarcastic celebration of the human instinct finally able to govern the nature. The improvised body gestures of the performer sculpt in real-time the soundscape and the moving images. The living creature on the screen reacts to the movements of the performer on stage in a mutual agreement and attraction.
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Work info: http://marcodonnarumma.com/works/i-cntrl-nature/
Author info: http://marcodonnarumma.com
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The WRO Biennal is the leading international forum for new media art in Poland and Central Europe.
Other artists performing at WRO2011:
Stelarc, Istvan Kantor, Incite, Noriko Yamaguchi, Cécile Babiole.

http://wro2011.wrocenter.pl/site/en
Other upcoming events http://marcodonnarumma.com/calendar

Live Media Concert I C::ntr::l Nature@Screenplay, Artist Talk @NK, Berlin

Marco Donnarumma — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 18:36:25 +0000

I C::ntr::l Nature v3.0
Audiovisual concert for augmented bass guitar, Xth Sense biosensing technology and butterfly
by Marco Donnarumma.

http://marcodonnarumma.com/works/i-cntrl-nature/
Saturday 9th April
h. 19.00
Panoramasaal, .CHB, Berlin

http://chb.screenplaynights.com/en/av-night/programm/
Panel discussions, performances and installations by Mia Makela, Pierce Warnecke, Yroyto, Olga Mink, Abstract Birds, Servando Barreiro among the others.

SCREENPLAY represents contemporary audiovisual art with special focus on generative or cinematographic performance as well as performance involving live-camera-feedback.
SCREENPLAY shows an eclectic selection of artists who explore aestetic principles on the frontiers of new technologies, interactive story-telling and the interplay of audio and video.

Artist Talk
Saturday 9th April
h 20.30
NK, Berlin

http://www.nkprojekt.de/artist-presentation-by-marco-donnarumma/

Donnarumma will present some of his works, all deploying self-designed, Pure Data-based software, eventually focusing on the ongoing research project for biophysical live media ‘Xth Sense’.
http://res.marcodonnarumma.com/projects/xth-sense/

Report Pikslaverk Festival 2010, Pixelache Network, Iceland

Marco Donnarumma — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 22:33:13 +0000

Pikslaverk Festival | Iceland | 2010

In May I’ve been invited to Pikslaverk Festival in Reykjavik, Iceland, to present my work Golden Shield Music, a multi-channel generative sonification of IT censorship.
Pikslaverk is the Icelandic branch of the Pixelache Network which operates worldwide thanks to several organizations such as the almighty Piksel and its community.
Yes, I know, it’s probably very late for a report, but come on… better later than never.
Although I was really looking forward to my Icelandic journey, the arrival in Reykjavik was slightly weird. I was stopped and checked at the border by the local police for about 30′, with no explicit reason. I did not have anything illegal with me, fortunately. However after this warm welcome I suddenly faced an awful and hostile weather which did not help me rescuing the excitement.

Hostile weather | Iceland | 2010

Later on all my worries disappeared: I reached our lovely accommodation and eventually met long time friend Servando Barreiro along with the other international artists hosted for the event.
Once relaxed, chilled and excited again, I joined the group at the Reykjavik Art Museum for the first session of lectures.
The bad weather were still hiding the beauty of the city, but the modern, formal and cozy mood of the museum positively surprised me.

Reykjavik Art Museum | Pikslaverk Festival | Iceland | 2010

While Servando was setting up his performance for the opening of the festival, I got my chance to meet the organizers of the event and have a chat in the shiny library of the museum.
Margrét Elísabet Ólafsdóttir is an exquisite person and an excellent host, she’s also a curator working with digital and critical media. Aki Asgeirsson is a talented experimental composer and organizer for the Raflost festival. Curiously enough, we had already met a week before in Copenhagen as he have performed a concert at the Re-new Festival.

Servando Barreiro | Pikslaverk Festival | Iceland | 2010

Margrét Elisabet Olafsdottir & Aki Asgeirsson | Pikslaverk Festival | Iceland | 2010

Eventually Margrét formally opened the event and lectures started. Pall Thayer presented his Microcodes, “very small code-based artworks. Each one is a fully contained work of art. The conceptual meaning of each piece is revealed through a combination of the title, the code and the results of running them on a computer”. I had already viewed the work on-line, but the talk revealed some specific and interesting aspects of the research along with many practical examples. Make sure you check his website.
Then Servando performed an audiovisual self-destructive concert and the night ended with the hyper-fast and tense meta-talk by Goodiepal. I think I can’t really explain his presentation, probably any explanation won’t even make justice to the performance he made, but just think about 20mins of the fastest and most chaotic talk you can imagine, fill it with some real pragmatical and cynical considerations about modern electronic music as we know it and mix it with the exhibition of self-promoting hand-crafted gadgets such as toy-shaped vinyls, fake (?) theoretical handbooks and other lovely, weird objects.

Pall Thayer | Microcodes | Pikslaverk Festival | Iceland | 2010

Servando Barreiro | Pikslaverk Festival | Iceland | 2010

Goodiepal | Meta-talk | Pikslaverk Festival | Iceland | 2010

The day after we all met again at the Museum Hall for another session of lectures. Presentations were mostly focused on software “art” and a critical approach to the digital media in its widest conception. Martin Howse talked about his research projects amongst which I’d like to mention the brilliant Island2 “a free software application which creates a semi-permanent, isolated island in the computer’s memory”. I presented the Golden Shield Music project and I have to thank the audience and the other artists who outlined few criticism which I didn’t faced before, questioning the “liveness” of the generative system and proposing a theoretically endless accumulation of data instead of a static analysis of pre-recorded figures.
Next was Linda Hilfling who introduced a “TV-program in its literary meaning – a software executing local-tv-transmissions, where the code of the programme critically reflects on the premises of participatory media itself.” (I stole this quote from http://www.observatori.com/pages/ob.php?anim=0&lang=en&tid=3). Finally Rafael Hidalgo closed the session presenting his Personal Weather Sensation, a multimedia project researching the interaction between the weather and human feelings, aiming at the creation of a sonic reactive environment controlled by the variations of weather conditions in specific place around the world.

Marco Donnarumma | Pikslaverk Festival | Iceland | 2010 | Photo by Ser_

Linda Hilfling | Radical TV Democracy | Pikslaverk Festival | Iceland | 2010

Eventually we headed at the Reykjavik Academy of Fine Arts to attend the presentation by Juan Parra and the exhibition of student’s final projects included in the Raflost program.
The walk was amazing: 20/30 mins wandering along the open sea surrounded by most likely the widest sky I’ve ever seen.

Sky above us | Iceland | 2010

Servando Barreiro entering the Academy of Fine Arts | Iceland | 2010

Artwork? | Academy of Fine Arts | Iceland | 2010

The night after PIkslaverk was officially closed with few hours of live performances including myself and I C::ntr::l Nature audiovisual improvisational concert, Juan Parra quadriphonic concert, Martinka Bobrikova and Oscar de Carmen and some other interesting performances.
The following party ended in the morning and I exploited the industrial set of the location to make some improvised strictly geeky and conceptual mapping projections over the whole building structure using the latest mapping module for FLxER, free vjing and multimedia mixing software.

Setting up the venue for the closing night | Pikslaverk Festival | Iceland | 2010

Performance | Pikslaverk Festival | Iceland | 2010

Mapping projections with FLxER | Pikslaverk Festival | Iceland | 2010

We all couldn’t leave Iceland without seeing the legendary landscape around the island, so we rented a van and spent the whole final day driving around incredible views and alien scapes. Well, this would deserve another whole post, but… hey, I won’t describe my holiday!
I want to thank the organization of the event, Margrét and Aki, the other artists that shared with me such a great times in Reykjavik. I wish to come back soon on this awesome island.

Martin Howse staring at the geysir | Iceland | 2010

I C::ntr::l Nature 3.0 @ Mapping festival 2010

Marco Donnarumma — Sat, 01 May 2010 13:45:20 +0000

MAPPING Festival
in collaboration with Live Performers Meeting
present:

I C::ntr::l Nature 3.0
7 May – 01:00 > 02:00
Spoutnik / Usine

Third and final version of the audiovisual live concert by Marco Donnarumma aka TheSAD premiered in 2009 at Némo Festival and performed at Pure Data Convention in Brasil, amongst other venues.

I C::ntr::l Nature v. 3 excerpts – augmented bass guitar improvisation 2009 from Marco Donnarumma aka TheSAD on Vimeo.

Besides FLxER Team, with Gianluca Del Gobbo, Ioann Maria and Marco Donnarumma, will hold a two days flash vjing workshop, introducing the latest version of FLxER, free flash-based software for vjing and multimedia live mixing.

Performance info:
http://marcodonnarumma.com/works/i-cntrl-nature/
http://www.mappingfestival.ch/2010/

Workshop info:
http://marcodonnarumma.com/teaching/flxer-flash-vjing/

http://flxer.net

Hope to see you there!

3.0 audio visual excerpt of I C::ntr::l Nature

Marco Donnarumma — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 11:02:31 +0000

Some time ago I published this new, brief excerpt of the final version of the audiovisual concert I C::ntr::l Nature. See the video below.

The performance is based on the self-designed software C::NTR::L, developed in the Pure Data graphical environment and available for download here. Performance was recorded live at roBOT Festival September 2009 in Bologna, Italy, camera by Carlotta Piccinini - Visual_Lab.

I C::ntr::l Nature v. 3 excerpts – augmented bass guitar improvisation 2009 from Marco Donnarumma aka TheSAD on Vimeo.

Netaudio Festival 2009 Report

Marco Donnarumma — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:05:12 +0000

All pictures by Joanna M. Stacewicz, thank you!

Berlin. Wonderful as always.

I visited again the city 3 weeks ago to play the audiovisual concert ‘I C::ntr::l Nature’ - selected for the day program of Netaudio Festival.

I went there together with Joanna M. Stacewicz for few days and we had the chance to live one of the (probably) last days of full warm sun before the winter.

Our expectations about Netaudio Festival were pretty high… probably too high. Wait… i’m not talking about the organization but about the musical offer.
The event was really well organized and it was clear the amount of efforts the staff had to face in order to make everything work. I want to thank all the staff for making this happen. People were great and we all had nice times, but the only thing that i found unsatisfactory was the line-up policy of the event.

Probably i just wasn’t considering the complete spectrum of a “netaudio-only” event. The line-up was almost completely dedicated to dance live acts (or dj sets), dancy electronica, dancy idm, dancy dubstep, techno, and some live pop bands.

Don’t misunderstand me… i like to dance, but i largely prefer to discover new sounds, new approaches to music, innovative reflections of sounds and technology.

This actually made me think a lot about Netaudio scene and how I relate myself to it. Why do i listen to free music? Because it’s free – free as in beer? Because i don’t want to spend my money for music?
No, i don’t think so. Probably i listen to free music ’cause i seek for an added value that can somehow guarantee a different approach to music composition, and hearing experience.
Probably i would like to see a Netaudio festival dedicated to music free as in freedom. The freedom to create music and sounds that are going beyond my everyday perception of techno-glitch, pop-kraut-rock, hip-top raggae dance-hall. Music is much more than this, music is not only something to have fun with, but i believe it is a relevant aspect of our everyday learning process, so that it doesn’t have to be undervalued.

Anyway, excluding my personal complains, I happily performed the 3rd version of the audiovisual concert for augmented bass guitar and butterfly and introduced the free software C::NTR::L. Thanks Georg – from Pure Data mailing list – for dropping by!

We had the pleasure to meet many old friends after quite a time. The almighty Dr.Nojoke was there (thanks for hosting us and being our light in Berlin!) – he played a really interesting live set under the moniker Trioon together with the common friend Servando Barreiro and JLab - and the omnipresent Visual Berlin collective was contributing to the event with quality live visual shows by Flux, Fred, Oigovisiones, E-Gruppe, Pixelnoizz, Yagama.

We had also the chance to get to know Fernando Fonseca (Public Spaces) who played one of the most interesting acts in whole the festival. A weird coincidence made me play exactly before his set, thus we met and found out many common ideas. Finally we had also the time to go out for dinner altogether and release our minds from too high thoughts hanging around Kreuzberg for 40′ looking for a place where to eat.
Actually i’m forgetting about another interesting project developed by Netaudio organization: The Berlin Wall of Sound. People were invited to record field sounds around the Berlin Wall to create a Berlin Wall sound map. The map was physically available as touch screen installation inside the main room of the venue ( http://www.netaudioberlin.de/berlin-wall-of-sound/ ).

All in all i’m glad to have participated and contributed to this event. All critics and doubts expressed in this article don’t have to be perceived as a provocation, not at all. I only try to stimulate constructive discussions and thoughts, since this is what we are here for…
Should i sit all the day long mesmerizing myself thinking how beautiful is life?

Nahh… that’s not for me. Please, feel free to write few lines about your idea of free music and whatever could be related to it. I definitely wish to know your opinion and keep on the conversation.

Live at Netaudio Berlin 2009

Marco Donnarumma — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 20:26:32 +0000

For those of you who hang around Berlin, I’ll be participating to the almighty Netaudio Festival – day program – with a showcase of my audiovisual performance for augmented bass guitar ‘I C::ntr::l Nature’ (check the project here) entirely made and performed with PureData.
I’ll be performing on Friday from 14.15 to 14.45h and for the remaining 30 minutes I’ll be explaining the functionality of ‘C::NTR::L’, the free software I developed for the performance . The software allows you to transform your standard musical instrument in an augmented audiovisual controller, it’s published under GPL license so free to be used and modified. If you’re interested you’re very welcome to drop by.
The festival will take place from 8th to 11th October at the wellknown Maria am Ostbahnhof (Mao).

I was really glad to get to know about my selection since Netaudio festival is the bulwark of free CC-licensed music, so it represents kind of _must_ for me.
Here you are the statement of this Berliner edition – via Netaudio website:

From the 8th to the 11th of October 2009, Netaudio Berlin will be gathering the international netaudio community for a four-day music and conference festival in Berlin, under the title “East meets West”. 2009 will mark the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Iron Curtain. We recall pictures of hands reaching out to pull people from both sides up onto the Berlin wall. The event will take place at Maria, a venue situated immediately on the former Berlin ‘death strip’ once dividing the city and the world into eastern and western hemispheres.

In recent years a netaudio landscape has emerged in the countries of Eastern Europe. Speakers, artists and netlabel managers from Eastern and Western Europe as well as from the USA are invited to find out more about the needs and possibilities, challenges and chances of netaudio under the various cultural frameworks and to discuss new opportunities for networking and collaboration across borders and cultures.

The line-up of the festival is generously eterogeneous, providing a day program including:

… and a night program too broad to be described in this article. Plenty of artists and genres – electronic, drum’n'bass, dubstep, hip hop, techno. Be sure to check the full program here. The live visuals will be curated by my dear friends Visual Berlin, don’t miss it!

Report roBOT Festival 2009 Bologna

Marco Donnarumma — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 18:11:48 +0000

Thanks Bologna!
I had definitely great days in there. The roBOT festival – organized by Shape Association – took place at Palazzo Re Enzo – Bologna – one of the most beautiful ancient building in Bologna and probably in whole Italy.

Look at the ‘Sala del Podestà’ picture below to get a glimpse about the rest of the building. Something awesome.
The festival is more clubbing oriented, but since this year they established a call for works located in the experimental audiovisual field.
That’s how i got to participate alongside with Ape5+Eraser, EricaIlCane, Saul Saguatti, Teatrino Elettrico and Pixelnoizz.
I could enjoy a warm and quiet atmosphere and nice chats with the technical staff (in the picture).
You know? one of the best thing that can happen to an artist going to perform somewhere is to get in touch with professional, friendly technicians who understand his needs… and that’s what has happened.

On Wednesday, the opening was reserved to Carl Craig and his SHAPE project. Highly acclaimed musical project connecting and blending techno and classical musical languages. On Thursday has started the experimental section of roBOT with the first three performances including me, Pixelnoizz and EricaIlCane.
I made a shorter performance, trying to understand how to relate with the space of the huge concert hall. It hasn’t been easy to understand how to play in such a space, where the sound jump from one side of the roof to another, like playing in a big Gothic church.
EricaIlCane and his crew has showed ‘Piove, Governo Ladro’ an evocative imagery, sometimes more decorative sometimes more dreamy. Playing inside of a semi-transparent box they have spread some interesting noise with four audio channels surrounding the installation.

In between on Friday i had the chance to get to know the american artist John Duncan. Incredibly he was holding an informal meeting with some young artists at the same place where i’ve been hosted (Nosadella.2 – residency for artists and curator).
So i participate to the meeting with him and Melissa Pasut and in the end we spent the night together with a lovely dinner and other friend Elisa DelPrete. It’s useless to say it has been an inspiring meeting.

Finally on Saturday I’ve met a lot of old friends and I’ve also met for the first time the Italian artists Ape5 and Eraser. They proposed their latest performance ‘Future sounds like Past Toys’ mixing the ethereal music of Eraser (heavy circuit bending on old toys) with a glitch visual imagery provided by Ape5.

Then i repeated my performance ‘I C::ntr::l Nature’ - audiovisual improvisation for augmented electric bass guitar, butterfly and self-designed software C::NTR::L, Pure Data based - and i have to say it has been one of the best performance I’ve ever made since I’m traveling around with this project.
I was feeling this kind of emotive tension who often push a creative mind to get out his best.
The sound was finally as i wish it would have been and a lot of people showed up to attend to the concert.
I’m usually really critic towards my concerts but this time I’ve felt something too good around, maybe the presence of many friends, maybe the great location, maybe the proper astral plane connections… anyway the show was strong and impressive.

My friend Carlotta Piccinini from Visuallab has been so kind to shoot almost all the performance with an excellent camera, so be patient and expect a new video reel from the performance.

After the performances (including also Byetone who was performing at my same time, I would have loved to attend) everybody has moved to the Link for the last club night of the festival. Nice time in there supporting old good friends Vj Hash and Sapo during their vj set, and around 5am everybody has jumped in the car driving back home.

Once again Sunday has come and I’ve taken the last tour around the city, sitting in a park and enjoying the last rays of sun – because in Milan the rain was waiting for me.
I end the report with this picture: a public park in Bologna dedicated to the 11st September 2001.
I’ve the maximum respect for that event (and also a lot of doubts and anxiety), but could you tell me why in Italy we should dedicate a park to this date???
Sorry but i cannot agree with that.

Thanks to all the people from roBOT staff – Marcella, Federica and all the technical staff – and thanks also to all the people who showed up for my concert. It means a lot to me, especially here in Italy.

Pure Data Convention ’09 Live Recordings

Marco Donnarumma — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 14:53:55 +0000

I’m really glad to share with you the live recording of my most recent audiovisual concert I C::ntr::l Nature at Pure Data Convention 2009, Sao Paulo, Brasil. The only sonic source is my bass guitar augmented by the self-designed software C::NTR::L v.1.3.

Many thanks to Henrique Iwao for his efforts during the convention and for being so patient to record and order (all?) the performances at Pd Con.

You can listen to the concert with the player below. If you want to download it for free check my download page.

TheSAD – I C::ntr::l Nature Live @ Pure Data Convention 23-07-09 by TheSAD

Besides you may be interested in visiting the unofficial archive of Pd Convention performances at this address http://sussurro.musica.ufrj.br/pdcon09/material.html.
All the material is kindly hosted by sussurro.musica.ufrj.br – Biblioteca Musical Digital do Laboratório de Música e Tecnologia da Escola de Música da UFRJ.

Italian premiere at roBOT festival 2009

Marco Donnarumma — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 15:08:29 +0000

Next audiovisual concert coming up in Bologna, Italy.

On 19th October I will be performing the third version of the performance for augmented bass guitar and butterfly I C::ntr::l Nature during roBOT festival at Palazzo Re Enzo. This will be the italian premiere of the brand new version of the audiovisual performance (recently presented in Brasil at Pure Data Convention), so don’t miss it!
The festival provide an interesting lineup, featuring a pool of selected audiovisual artist from Italy and Europe including Saul Saguatti, Ericailcane, Pixelnoizz, Vj Hash, Ape5 and a party time hosted by some big names of the scene such as Tim Exile, Carl Craig and many others. I will be probably also making a friendly vj set during the club nights at the LINK, enjoying old friends vjs from the italian scene.

If you’re around.. get a chance to enjoy us.
more infos:

I C::ntr::l Nature project website: http://www.thesaddj.com/icontrolnature/

Festival:http://www.robotfestival.it/2009
tickets: http://www.robotfestival.it/2009/ingressi/

Report Pd Convention 09, Sao Paulo

Marco Donnarumma — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:47:21 +0000

Online the pictures from the third international Pure data Convention in Sao Paulo, Brasil, where i performed the audiovisual piece ‘I C::ntr::l Nature’ and presented the free, open source software C::NTR::L – Pd-based.

Much thanks to Alexandre, Paloma, Cristiano, Palm, Cybelle and all the staff for the big efforts to make this happen. Great experience for all of us and relevant effort to enhance the free culture in Brasil.

Check the gallery here: ../pics

More infos: www.pdcon.org

Report S-Block Festival

Marco Donnarumma — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 19:20:26 +0000

Here you are with a bit of delay the report about S-Block Festival.
The event has been organized by Plattform fuer aktuelle Musik and it took place at Interventionsraum in the very heart of Stuttgart. It has been my second time in the city and also this time i had the pleasure to enjoy a good dose of high quality experimental music.

Antenna Research opened the event with their concrete concert based on antennas and old radio. Pure noise eclectism and sane irony deadful mixture!

I definetely love spending days in Germany at experimental music events ’cause i always see things that i’m sure i won’t be able to see anywhere else. Don’t know if it’s all about my “mith” of Germany, but i can assure the”experimental” matter there has really a deep sense and clear imprint. Maybe it’s all about originality and the way to express it…

Coming next we had the DuoB – free, improvisational jazz duet from United States. They provided a huge concert, impossible to describe it, but just imagine 1.5 hour of free improvisation on drums (played in every way you can imagine) and double-bass, supported by impervious and theatrical readings by Pedro Cofrè from Chile.

We didn’t have the time to recover our mind from the intuitional free reading/jazz of DuoB, and Christine Sehnaoui started her solo performance/radical improvisation at saxophone. She’s one of the most professional improvisers i’ve ever seen playing live, i highly suggest to check her work. Great presence on stage and awesome confidence with her instrument.

On the second day of the event, after having a beautiful breakfast with the other artists, we reached again the venue for another session. This time Ezramo opened the night… It has been a lovely experience, from subtle mystic moments to ethnic derivations and electroacoustic breackdowns.

Following we had Experimentelles Musiktheater: „The International Besetztzeichen“. An experimental theater/live noise piece for three actors, performed by Oliver Prechtl and Philipp Golm (Stuttgart). Unfortunately i didn’t get any picture of their show.
I had the hard duty to close the festival with the audiovisual work “I C::ntr::l Nature” - solo piece for augmented bass guitar and self-designed software C::NTR::L. It has been a pleasure to play in front of the many people came to see the performance. The tiny and cosy venue of the festival was overloaded of people all around me… lovin’ it!

Thanks Stuttgart and thanks once again to Ezramo and Wendelin Buechler who organized such an inspirational event, and good luck guys for your future projects!

LINKS:
http://www.thesaddj.com/s-block-festival-advanced-music-and-live-audiovisual-art/
http://www.thesaddj.com/icontrolnature
http://interventionsraum.de/sblockfestival.html
http://interventionsraum.de
http://www.myspace.com/maxexperimentell

S-Block Festival – Advanced Music and Live Audiovisual Art

Marco Donnarumma — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 11:07:20 +0000

I’ve been invited to participate to the first edition of S-Block Festival - international festival of Advanced Music, Audiovisual Art and Performances - at Interventionsraum in the centre of Stuttgart, DE.

The festival will take place on 19-20 June and will showcase many different projects of experimental music, live videos and neo-theather, highlighting the soulful artistic local scene plus guest international artists.

I’ll perform ‘I C::ntr::l Nature’ solo audiovisual performance for augmented E-bass guitar - recently performed at NEMO festival in Paris and Ausklang Festival in Hamburg. The performance is powered by the self-designed software C::NTR::L (released as public beta version with GPL license infos here).

I’m glad to come back to Stuttgart with this project because last year i performed its first demo version exactly there in Stuttgart during the monthly Max.Experimentell event and it has been an hyper-stimulating experience for the further developments of the performance.

I highly recomend to join this event since it’s going to be a new important mirror of the most recent researches in Live and Mixed Media.

Program:

Friday 19.06

20:30 – ANTENNA RESEARCH feat. MOWBLIND (Stuttgart)
Audiovisuelle Performance
21:00 – DUO B. & PEDRO COFRÉ (San Francisco, USA – Concepción, Chile)
Filmvertonung / Live-Improvisierte Musik / Poesie-Lesung
22:00 – CHRISTINE SEHNAOUI (Paris, Frankreich)
Solo Performance / Radical Improvisation
22:45 – ZENIT & NADIR (Stuttgart)
Multimediale Performance: Quartier Ss – Sinnbild materiellen Prunks

Saturday 20.06

21:00 – EZRAMO (Italien / Stuttgart)
Audiovisuell Solo Performance: Beats Moar Bambus
21:45 – OLIVER PRECHTL, PHILIPP GOLM (Stuttgart)
Experimentelles Musiktheater: „The International Besetztzeichen“
22:15 – THE !S.A.D.! (Rom, Italien)
Pure Data – Performance: „I C::ntr::l Nature”

Künstlerisches Rahmenprogramm

Friday 19.06

18:00 – JUSTYNA KOEKE & NINA MÜLLER (Stuttgart)
Rauminstallation
22:00 – RAGANI HAAS (Stuttgart)
Performance

Saturday 20.06

22:30 – ANJA ABELE (Stuttgart)
Performance
MIRIAM HUSCHENBETH (Stuttgart)
Performance

You can buy tickets directly at the venue, no reservation needed.
Daily ticket: 8 euro
Two Days ticket: 14 euro

Venue:
Interventionsraum
Marienstraße 15
Stuttgart-Stadtmitte

LINKS:
http://www.thesaddj.com/icontrolnature
http://interventionsraum.de/sblockfestival.html
http://interventionsraum.de
http://www.myspace.com/maxexperimentell

Live at AusklangFestival, Hamburg

Marco Donnarumma — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 16:16:56 +0000

On 28th December i will be really glad to perform my work I C::ntr::l Nature (nowave/visual/noise audiovisual live improvisation) at Ausklang Festival at Hoerbar, Hamburg.
The artists invited:

Felix Kubin (HH)
(Futuristische Popmusik / Elektroakustik)
Napalmed (Tschechien)
(Jazz Noise Free Industrial Improvisation)
The !S.A.D!
Trautonia Capra (HH)
(Elektronisches Kunstlied mit Theremin + Gesang)
Asmus Tietchens (HH)
(Elektronische Musik / Klangforschung)
Bruno & Michelle are smiling (HH)
(Bös-komischer High-Speed-Pop)

“The Hörbar is the central meeting point for consumers and producers of electronic, electroacoustic and industrial music in Hamburg, every Wednesday from 9 pm to 1 am in the rooms of the B-Movie in Hamburg St.Pauli. Every last Friday in a month there is a concert with different music projects, performance artists, lectures or/and films.

“Since 1995 the Hörbar organizes every year between Christmas and New Year’s Eve the ‘Jahresausklangfestival’ (German for “year’s last notes”). On two subsequent evenings six to eight artists and groups perform in the movie theater. Moreover labels releasing and distributing experimental music are invited to build up their stands and present and sell their products.”

more info: http://www.hoerbar-ev.de/?Ausklangfestival_2008:Weitere_Infos

C::NTR::L live AV physical computing

Marco Donnarumma — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 10:34:48 +0000

C::NTR::L AV augmented bass guitar improvisation from TheSAD on Vimeo.

Live action of audiovisual improvisation.
This work is performed with the electric bass guitar and the custom-made software C::NTR::L, Human-Computer Interface for physical computing i developed in Pure Data.
This was the first time i test the version 1.0 of C::NTR::L (feat. audiovideo modules and efx triggered in real-time by your partiture), and i can say it seems it works pretty good.
But please, share your ideas about it…im trying to develop the software for public use (also for no-pd’r).
for more infos about the soft please visit thesaddj.com/icontrolnature or send me a message here.
I’m not so happy of the compression of Vimeo, a better quality video can be found here:
thesad.blip.tv

Festival CINESTHESY#1

Marco Donnarumma — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 22:13:49 +0000

For this first edition, the festival Cinesthesy invest in the new Cultural Center Madeleine Rebérioux in Créteil.

The programme includes interactive installations and video, ateliers/workshop, performances Audio/Vidéo, vjing and visual art.

REP (France)
INCITE (Germany)
THE !S.A.D.! (Italy)
SOLU & ARBOL (Spain/Finland)
OTOLAB (Italy)
CINEMASSAKER (France/Belge)
RAFAËL (Spain)
SATI (France) ETICHETTADISCOGRAFICA (Italy)
DEMOLECULARISATION [project singe] (France/Belge)
G-mO
LECOLLAGISTE
BOULEZ REPUBLIC GRAND ENSEMBLE
JUSTE ALICE 02
IDUUN
KSKF
AUDEROSESELAVY&EMOTYPE
EILE

Theme(s) : Multimédia, Music, Contemporary Art, Shows.
Website : www.cinesthesy.com
TEL : 01 41 94 15 65

Date : 27 october to 1st novembre 2008

CENTRE SOCIOCULTUREL MADELEINE REBÉRIOUX
27 avenue François Mitterrand 94 000 CRETEIL

INFORMATIONS & RESERVATION HTTP://WWW.CINESTHESY.COM TEL : 01 41 94 15 65
night ticket 10€ / 6€ et 4€ (young)
PASS WEEK-END 14€ / 10€ Free entry after midnight.

Métro line n° 8 direction Créteil, stop “Préfecture” ( terminus ) + Bus 281 direction créteil Europarc, stop “Coteaux” and ten minutes by feet.
FREE PARKING

The festival is co-organised by les PIXELS Transversaux (Dvds VisionSonic, Résidences d’artistes…) and by the association Maison de Jeunes et de la culture which start to run and manage the Cultural centre Madeleine Rebérioux who has always programmed author of new technologies and of contemporary creation.

Summercamp at Laboral, Gijón

Marco Donnarumma — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 18:12:34 +0000

I translate this post from the original spanish version posted on VjSpain by Whiteemotion.

“This year we appeared in the last days of Summercamp at Laboral in Gijón. We arrived there on friday, the day before the last day of the one week meeting. We subscribed the performance of Marco Donnarumma aka The S.A.D “I C::ntr::l Nature” created with PureData.
http://www.thesaddj.com/icontrolnature/

Summercamp, Laboral Gijon

I keep on with my thesis about the multimedia creation and new A/V formats which will be ready for the nest year. Now, after a world overview, i’m working on the spanish live visual scene.

At Laboral we met some good friends as Mia Makela – Solu and Jay, of Sin Antena:

http://www.sinantena.net

It was a pleasure to know Yves Degoyon, great contributor of the PD Community, who’s currently living in Barcellona. Toghether with Lluis Gomez they created a performance for the Summercamp.
More info about this project here:

http://www.hangar.org/wikis/lab/doku.php?id=start:puredata_opencv

I didn’t know people from the Hangar in Barcellona and many of the partecipants to the summercamp, which is a great chance to know each other and share. Here we are in a big empty building, fullfilled of tables where everybody is working, alone or in groups.

We find working areas for the creation of hardware, the puredata community, video maker, and streaming set of the talks and many performers, everything inside this new museum of contemporary art hosting exhibitions of national and international artists.

I write here some links regarding the Free Audio working group of the Barcellona community:
http://www.hangar.org/wikis/lab/doku.php?id=start:audiyolab

I add also some personal pages, suggested by Xavi aka Daax, about Free Audio and software, more others activities/festivals regarding the free culture:

http://www.pitchvolley.com/nvisible.taz/

http://pitchvolley.com/nvisible.taz/segmentationfault.html

http://costellam.net/

http://delcorp.org/distorsionfest/?page_id=18

Yesterday took place presentation of projects and today, the last day, from 17.00 performance will starts. To follow the evolution of the program on the wiki of Summercamp:

http://www.hangar.org/wikis/summercamp

The program of today foresees 15 performances of 15′ each. Yesterday when we arrived we quickly take out our laptops and started to work.
The streaming is online everyday and it’s possible to enter using the Interface_summercampTV:

http://giss.tv/interface/?mp=summercampTV.ogg

or opening this link http://giss.tv:8000/summercampTV.ogg in your VLC player.
Also the videos of what has happened in these days are available here:”

http://summerlab.blip.tv

For more informations about this enconunter and many of the partecipants:

http://www.hangar.org/drupal/?q=content/summer-camp-para-creadores-digitales-laboral

Seminario en Comunicaciòn AudioVisual, Puerto Rico

Marco Donnarumma — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 13:32:03 +0000

Accepting the invite of the spanish artist and teacher Blanca Bustamante-Perez (aka Whiteemotion) i’m arrived in Puerto Rico to support her workshop on the audiovisual production and live performance. I gave a speech about my work and I introduced the philosophy and the use of open source software (in specific PureData)
Besides we gave lessons about FlxER and Modul8, softwares that the students have used for their final performances. This performances took place during the final event of the seminary, which ended with a performance by Whiteemotion and the first intercontinental show of my project ‘I C::ntr::l Nature‘, free audiovisual improvising.
The whole experience has been really constructive and the group formed during the seminary definitevely seems to have the right potential to become the core of the future audiovisual community in Puerto Rico. Good luck guys!!
Check the website of the project with infos and pictures here:

http://vjpuertorico.wordpress.com

Report Max.Experimentell #5

Marco Donnarumma — Sun, 25 May 2008 10:01:37 +0000

Arrive in Stuttgart quiet early in the afternoon. Meet up with Ezramo (Alessandra Eramo), take the metro and arrive at Atelierhaus. A lovely building in Stuttgart fit with atelier of different artists. Meet Wendelin Büchler and all toghether we go to have a kebab and a beer.
This is how started my two days experience at Max.Experimentell, monthly review about experimental music, noise, live improvising and multimedia in Stuttgart & Ludwigsburg (DE) who have already hosted such great musicians as Gino Robair (US), Polvere (IT).
On the first night of this 5th edition of the review Ezramo&Büchler duo invited me and others german artists at their atelier in Stuttgart to have a jam session all night long. The atmosphere was great…

The !S.A.D! – bass, live electronics
Ezramo – Vocal, live electronics
Wendelin Büchler – Guitar, live electronics
Michael Jotter – Undefined phonetic objects
Jörg Koch – Bass, live electronics
plus more guests…

All in a circle we played toghether improvised soundscapes, sound texture, music for several hours, and a close, hyper-interested public has contribute to create a familiar, but warm and professional situation. Soon i should be able to upload the live recordings from that night.
The day after was even better…

We moved to Ludwigsburg, a small nice town really close to Stuttgart, and after a semi-italian breakfast and some stimulating and passionate conversations we arrived to Max.Strasse, wonderful bar and exhibition space in Maxstrasse eins in Ludwigsburg.
I started to setup everything for my audiovisual improvising performance I C::ntr::l Nature in the gallery, and after a while arrived also Jörg Koch, Barbara and Mark Kysela, great improvised music trio from Stuttgart.

At nine and a half the show began!
Kysela&Jörg Koch trio let us taste their sound research at the borders between noise-music, spoken words, concrete poetry and Wintermächen. For me it was one of the best concerts i’ve ever seen. A great tension during all the liveset, sonic gestures, real-time processing of prepared harp, saxophone and objects, plus a great and brilliant auto-irony.
Not a simple performance but they made it human, funny and intensive… public was amazed.

Then it’s my turn!
I was a bit anxious about this performance cause public was totally formed by experienced artists and also ’cause i had to fix some technical problems due to my last performance in Paris at Vision(‘R)Sonic.
In the end i sitted on the floor, among my bass, laptop and sound objects and all the people came to sit close to me. The space was great and contribute in a relevant way to the success of the performance. After few minutes of uncertainty i started to feel the positive tension grow in me and in the public’s eyes and i started to C::ntr::l my butterflies.
Half an hour later people was clapping hands in one of the warmest way that i have ever felt arond my gigs. I explained the whole project around I C::ntr::l Nature, the custom made software i want to publish for free and so on, and people get so interested!
When i finished my brief speech people was so excited that i was asked to play some more music… so i abandoned myself to an intimate, noisy and melancholic introspection…

After i ended the performance four, five people (among them Rue- german musician) came to me asking more infos about the project and we had some really constructive conversations… it was such a great satisfaction for me, and i learned a lot from the words that were flowing that night.
In the end we had some more beers, exchanged Max and PD patches with Jörg Koch, connected people with Kyselas, Ezramo, Wendelin and myself, talked a bit more with Joanna, the amazing person who also run Max.Strasse and finally got home for my last night in Stuttgart.

Special thanks to all the people who made this days amazing… i think it was one of the best situation i will remember… professionality, humanity, good feelings and a lot of ideas.

Links:
www.myspace.com/maxexperimentell
www.maxstrasse1.de

www.kyselas.de
www.elektrominibarklingelton.de
www.joergkoch.de

Report Vision’r Festival

Marco Donnarumma — Fri, 02 May 2008 10:40:32 +0000

Great times in Paris for Vision’r Festival Vj – http://www.vision-r.org/.
The festival had different locations around Paris: La Generale Manifacture in Sevres (where i performed I C::ntr::l Nature see pictures below), Le Yono in Paris, and the amazing structure Mains d’Oeuvres in Saint Ouen: a polifunctional 4 floors building, with two big main hall (where the most of the audio/video projects has been shown), a huge community hall (where to eat, drink and chat) , several rooms for workshops and an amazing cinema hall, where i tested one of the best spacial acoustic in Europe (i performed there toghether with G-mO the audio/video project Shut Down G8).

Many artists took part in the festival this year and obviously i hadn’t the time to see every performance. Among all projects i found really interesting and professional Juste Alice 02 (http://www.myspace.com/a_li_ce) a original and deep reinterpretation of the fabulous charachter created by Lewis Carrol, Strap on Dildos (http://vjemtv.net/strap_on_dildos) powerful and ironic performance about feminism and queer culture, Hyperspace (http://hyperespace.yroyto.com) synthethic hyperdigital 3 screens performance.
On Saturday in Salon Pro we (as FLxER Team) had a stand where we presented the upcoming LPM 5th Edition, toghether with Codanova, Vixid, Vjamm and Edirol.

A great aspect of the festival was the presence of international artists such as Elsa Vieira and Brendan Byrne (http://vjtheory.net), Toby Spark (Avit UK) that toghether with us from FLxER Team and Neologos from Vision’r (and of course other people, unfortunately i can’t mention everyone) are trying to create and support a worldwide network focused on vjing and audio/video live performances. We had really constructive conversations, so we had the chance to share. This is the best we could ask.

Thanks to all Vision’r staff (Neologos, 10Tordu and all the others). Here you are some pics from these 4 days festival. You can find all the pictures in my gallery, click here (picture courtesy of Yroyto, LeCollagiste).

!S.A.D! Live in Berlin

Marco Donnarumma — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 09:29:57 +0000

European Tour 2008 has started in january/february with a couple of concerts in Berlin where my a/v work ‘I C::ntr::l Nature’ has been much appreciated and commented.
A lot of new ideas and inputs coming out and the work is going on!
I want to say special thanks to Dr.Nojoke, Konik Polny, Fred, Tobias, RQM, Rina and Saimon and all Visual Berlin crew. All you has helped me in spending really great times there and to live better the amazing Berlin.
Peace and bless to all you!
Here you are some pictures (by the only ONE Dr.Nojoke!!) during the reharsal before live performance in Ak28, in Berlin Mitte.