Flows
Ryoichi Kurokawa 黑川良一 (Japan) // Nerve + npool (HK)

Flux, is the state of everything at every moment.
Images are our memories of the reality,
yet audiovisual synthesis.
A concert, also a journey for exceptional experience of digital sound and light.

細緻觀察,發現微密之間在動
景像、聲音,是虛擬又是真實
是音樂會,亦是一場視覺與聽覺相連的觀賞遊歷



Rheo
by Ryoichi Kurokawa [Japan]

Ryoichi Kurokawa tends to eliminate the boundaries of our physical perception where the essence lurks in the transition, as in the law of life, nature and beauty where "everything is evanescent."

Three dimensional pixel sculptures are the result of Ryoichi Kurokawa's audiovisual synthesis. Kurokawa destructs and reconstructs architectonic and organic abstractions with precision, coercing a complete surrendering of the senses. Minimal, yet chaotic conflux of visual and auditory perception merges into an experience of memory and ambiguity where virtual and actual images are no longer distinguishable. Kurokawa uses what he calls  "audiovisual organ" to compose spatial-time sculptures out of digitally generated material, formed from analogue field recordings. Abstract sound and imageries are precisely synchronized and juxtaposed, asserting a form of glitch minimalism re-assembled into complex and highly rhythmic audio-visual landscapes.

一切都在不經意之間蠕動、變化。生命、自然及美麗無一例外,一切都只在頃刻,變幻才是永恆。

黑 川良一將視覺與聲音編組成一體,在不斷拆解與重構的過程中,築成了有機及抽象的 立體數碼雕塑般視覺影像。簡約、郤蘊含混雜喧鬧的視覺與聲音元素,能勾起觀眾似曾相識的經驗,記憶中真實與虛擬影像混為一體。黑川以田野錄音作素材,衍生出數碼影像,以他稱為「聲影器 官」的程式,編作成結合「時」、「空」元素的雕塑。抽象的聲音與影像既同步一體,又互相對衡,產生出複雜而有節奏的聲影風景。



Solstice to Solstice
by Nerve (Steve Hui 許敖山) + npool (Jamsen Law 羅琛堡) [HK]

Seasons of distinct rhythms, seasons also with volatile forms, sounds, scents, tastes and sensations. Seasons as a cycle, yet there is never the same spring.

Transformation is the evidence of passing time, but time is invisible. We only discover it at the moment being reminded by the changes of our surroundings.

Nerve digitally synthesized environmental sound as the four seasons, and modulate the representational sound into music as the three intervals in between. npool turns the theatre into a site for visualizing networks of co-beings, and rejoice with the sound as one. While prompting associations and reconnecting memories of seasons, they also lead audience to another perspective of the reality. This is a journey traveling through the layers of invisibles. 

Collaboration between sound and visuals, never aimed at describing the same scenery, nor it was generated from one by another. Only by summoning them up, the whole landscape can finally be seen.

瞰俯歲月,節奏輪廓分明;感覺季節,彷彿抽象難辨。
以為循環無間,週而復始,卻發現從來沒有一樣的春天,一切只是看似重覆地流轉。
 
Nerve 與 npool 的合作,是聲音與影像,也是時間與空間、感應與記憶。時間流逝,看不見亦聽不到,唯有透過周遭景物的律動,時空感官方可連成一體。這是一次從無形色相交織 而成的聲影旅程。
 
Nerve 以電子合成音色模擬大自然聲響,引發對季節的共鳴,然而四季並非主角,過渡期才是焦點所在。四段複合的聲景,三段過渡的變奏,是具象通往意象的連綿交替。npool 把劇場轉化成物像相連的樞紐,讓景物、時空與聲音接合。聲音與影像,不以任何一方衍生對方,卻是平衡共生,唯有兩者相加,才是一片完整的風景。



Presented by 主辦
Leisure and Cultural Services Department 康樂及文化事務署

17-18,03, 2011
(Fri-Sat) 8pm

Multi-media Theatre, HKICC Lee Shau Kee School of Creativity
香港兆基創意書院多媒體劇場

$180

more tags:
audiovisual performance, digital music, field recording, computer programming, nature, video installation,

role:
curator, creative producer

Video

Solstice to Solstice - showreel

Teaser 1 (Rheo)

Teaser 2 (Solstice to Solstice)