Linda Bouchard, artistic director
Pan Sonic and CrossMedia Surround Cinema Concerts
by
Rioichi Kurokawa

At Recombinant Media Labs
September 23rd, 24th, 27th, 2006 9pm


YOICHI KUROKAWA
[JAPAN]
Based on natural images Ryoichi Kurokawa transfigures and distorts original analog source material with digital processes in the form of an audiovisual crossmedia concert. This, very much like the human brain, represents memory where visual and auditory perception is reconstructed in an unconscious way. In doing so, virtual images and reality merge in unpredictable ways. Ryoichi Kurokawa’s time-based, audio-visual designs are displayed in a 3-dimensional digital mode to see sounds, listen to pictures and read an audiovisual language.

http://www.ryoichikurokawa.com/


PAN SONIC [FINLAND]
Live, the music of Pan sonic can feel as physical as a weather system. This enveloping escalation of physicality seems a kind of materialism, even though there is nothing to see other than the projected image of sound activating an oscilloscope: the rawness of sawtooth, the sumptuous melted wax massage of pure sine, the erroneous sounds of contact and broken contact.

The music goes beyond process and phenomenology, broadcasting a manifesto for the poetry of electricity.

http://www.phinnweb.org/panasonic/



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San Francisco, California