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BERNHARD LOIBNER [AT] - Bosa 2, 04:03, 2003
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Bosa 2 is an attempt to transform an electronic sound composition (more or less) directly into the visual domain.
The visual part is composed of three elements (blue/green/red) corresponding to the three building blocks of the sound composition. All visual elements were created and triggered directly by the audio signals of its corresponding sound element.
The piece works on multiple perception modes (without passing any test of consistency). They contain continuous links into symbolic, abstract and emotional spaces by constantly interweaving these modes. This poses questions of a hierarchy of perception and sensory information.
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BERNHARD LOIBNER [AT] - Far Field, 02:52, 2006
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far field combines abstract computer-generated images with abstract electronic music. It treats sound and video as equal elements.
The visual layer browses abstract surfaces and textures with fragments of a human face repeatedly appearing as some kind of "tromp l'oeil".
The sound layer defines the flow and dynamic range of far field with the music being closely entangled with the visual events. The subtle pulse of the basic sound element and the melody line reflect the images. They pull the viewer deeper into the visual territories of the piece.
Austrian playwright Arthur Schnitzler depicted in the early 20th century the human soul as a vast landscape ("weites Land"). In that sense the visual and audible landscape addresses mental processes: elusive perceptions like a landscape passing by, continuously mutating forms where we are supposed to recognize familiar patterns and fragments of memories, connotations of images and sounds, approximation and distance, the wider view of things.
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Bernhard Loibner is a composer of electronic music, musician and media artist working in the field of experimental electronic sound and music. He lives in Vienna, Austria.
His compositions are characterized by the use of live electronics and computers as unique instruments to create complex musical structures between silence and noise. Extending his musical compositions he has developed his work firther into the audio-visual domain. This type of "visual music" links the video images closely to his music (without interest in one-to-one synchronisation).
His sound/video pieces have been presented in screenings all over the world e.g.:
Videoformes Festival, Clermond-Ferrand (France, 2007), Videomedeja Festival, Novi Sad (Serbia, 2006), Athens Video Art Festival (Greece, 2006), International Kortfilmfestival (Leuven, Belgium, 2005), VAD Video and Digital Arts International Festival (Girona, Spain, 2005, 2006), Unsound Festival 2005 (Krakow, Poland), Electrofringe 2005 (Newcastle, Australia), Festival Sonoimagenes (Buenos Aires, Argentinia, 2005), 2nd Media Arts Festival Armenia (Yerevan, Armenia, 2005), Thailand New Media Arts Festival 2005 (Thailand, Bangkog), Generator (Vienna, Austria, 2005), Arsonica Festival (Seville, Spain, 2004), Spark Contemporary Art Space (Syracuse, USA, 2003/2004), Cybersonica (London, UK, 2003). |
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