The Auxig’s work employs an experimental nature of the real time audio and live interactive video projection, each of the participant (performer) is underlied. The piece applies the comprovisation strategy, where there only general compositional methods are defined for the whole collective, such as exposition, development, climax and recapitulation, while the resulting output alters each time when the piece is performed, due to the quality that pure improvisation brings to all artists’ flow, and how the artists interact with each other’s sound.
The audiovisual performance implies tactics of comprovisation, where the audio performers use generative projection by Petr Hanžl as a time-based graphic score. Another side of the performance is improvisation of the musicians, where the sound sources are shared beforehand and equally distributed to be used with no limitations, so all artists develop their authentic language.
Auxig collective has a very decent site-specific approach. The recordings and video materials were taken at nature reservation Slavkovský les (Karlovarský kraj, CZ) Ohře river and are reflecting the current state of the river and its surroundings, including the low levels of water, sound pollution from airplanes and factories etc.
The concept of the river flow is being reflected by developing a composition intensity from gentle soft sounds to a massive soundfield.
This Performance was presented at the International Conference on Technologies for Music Notation and Representation TENOR which is dedicated to issues in theoretical and applied research and development in Music Notation and Representation, with a strong focus on computer tools and applications, as well as a tight connection to music creation. “Technology” in the conference name refers to any mean that may contribute to the notation, representation and/or visualisation of the music and sound, for purposes that may include (but are not limited to) music composition, performance, representation, transcription, analysis and pedagogy. The following works, all created during the last two years, were selected by a panel of experts following a call for contributions.
Performance as AUXIG collective.