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VIDEO PEACOCK An Audio Peacock costume (constructed from white polycarbonat-plexiglass) is used as a mobile projection screen. This is a solo audio-visual concert where the electro-acoustic quality of an Audio Peacock is visually enhanced via a video beamer: moving images (both live and recorded) can be projected directly onto the performer's costume. A story is told "live" by a figurant who simultaneously samples his own amplified voice, manipulating the sound (loop and pitch): the performer dubs his own hallucogenic dream.
AUDIO PEACOCKS is the most recent performance from Benoit Maubrey. These wearable electronic instruments are constructed from polycarbonat plexigalss material shaped into a peacockıs fan-like plumage. The plexiglass surface is equipped with 16 loudspeakers (150 watts power), amplifiers, and rechargeable 12 volt batteries. The "audio-plumage" is highly directional and functions like an electroacoustic radar dish -- esthetically it has much in common with the way a peacock parades itself in front of the pea-hen (the audience). An Audio Peacock can either amplify its own electronic instrument and voice or receive sounds from outside sources via transmitter/receiver and disseminate them in a space by orienting his high-tech "plumage". Four Audio Peacock units can be acoustically choreographed as a mobile quadrophonic loudspeaker system. VIDEO PEACOCK. An Audio Peacock costume (constructed from white polycarbonat-plexiglass) is used as a mobile projection screen. This is a solo audio-visual concert where the electro-acoustic quality of an Audio Peacock is visually enhanced via a video beamer: moving images (both live and recorded) can be projected directly onto the performer's costume. A story is told "live" by a figurant who simultaneously samples his own amplified voice, manipulating the sound (loop and pitch): the performer dubs his own hallucogenic dream.
http://www.audioballerinas.com
Visit Benoît Maubrey's current exhibition in Berlin:
singuhr - hörgalerie (acoustic gallery) in the Parochial Church- Berlin. November 11 - Dezember 12, 2004
AUDIO - IGLOO --- Sound Art Installation
Recycled Sounds The AUDIO-IGLOO
An acoustic space: a building made from electroacoustic boxes. A room of my own a sound space created from disguarded modern junk the battered and disguarded artefacts of modern age. Relics temporarily salvaged from a metal schredderıs grinding teeth. The boxes are not unlike the frozen building blocks of an igloo when put together they turn into a dome-like space. A room within a room: the Parochial Church as a refuge for homeless speakers. Thanks to the efficiency of the German recycling system (and sponsorship of BRAL Reststoffbearbeitung GmbH and Rethman AG) 400 loudspeaker boxes have been recycled into a new home: a habitat for listeners of avant-garde music. Along with the speakers I have also collected radio tuners, record players, and guitar amplifiers all of these have been re-soldered into a new structure of not just recycled electronics, but also recycled sounds (unseen sounds from the air: electro-magnetic waves). A chorus of electroacoustic souls whispering their last prayer. We are allowed to enter this room, our body-resistance brings warmth into this media confessional, the sounds change around us or is it our imagination? he installation ends on the 12th of December and all 400 speakers will be returned to BRAL Reststoffbearbeitung GmbH the final cycle of their
fate.
opening hours: Mittwoch bis Sonntag von 14.00 - 20.00 Uhr
Address: singuhr - hörgalerie in parochial - Berlin in der Parochialkirche,
10179 Berlin, Klosterstr. 67, U-Bhf. Klosterstr., S-Bhf. Alexanderplatz,
Tel: +49 +30-24724465
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