(land)moves

(land)moves is a project developed in collaboration with Marco Liuni (music) e Bruno Zamborlin (gesture analysis). It consists of an interactive system which relates user’s gestures to the evolving landscape they have in front.
 
The system generates a representation of an artificial planet where the experience of time is set by cycles of days and nights. The morphology of the land vary according to the qualities of user’s movements. These firstly relates to a reactive flock of polygons which flies over the land.
 
Sounds are associated to visual events in order to create a symbolic yet surrealistic meaning. Twittering metallic polygons defies gravity while seismic evolutions shape the land. Wind blows constantly on this world as the guitar restitutes the flavor this electric landscape.
 
The explicit influence that movements have on the morphology of the territory is intended as a suggestion of the direct link human beings have with their environment.
 
 
Exhibitions
New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME) 2011, Oslo (Paper and demo)
Audiovisiva, Milan

Geo – GP & DP

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Audiovisual Concerts by Giorgio Partesana and Duncan Pinhas
 
In between science and contemplation, analytical and synesthetic approach, Geo aims to give a non-exhaustive, immersive, meditative, audiovisual representation of three ecospheres of the planet, namely hydrosphere, lithosphere and atmosphere.
 
Geo is planned as a trilogy which chapters are drafted to confront matters in their evolving natural states with some of the interactions mankind have with them, so that natural forces are confronted to mastering work employed by mankind.
 
The concerts are drafted as an exploration of micro and macro landscapes created with matters recorded in specific environments. The destination of the journey is an imaginary land where natural and artificial geometries, symbols of our habitats merge into hybrid patterns.
 
Time-based manipulation and amplification of recorded matters evokes a physical sensations allowing abstract geometries to acquire a personal meaning. The project, will to stimulate a reflection about the environment that we inhabit, alternating lulling to uncomfortable moments.
 
 

Geo, Opus II – Solid Matters
 

Geo, Opus II – Solid Matters [Stills]

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This, most recent, second opus focuses on solid matters such as stone and concrete, on which cutting and arranging movements are opposed to aging and breaking.
 

Here is the Full Length Demo.
 
Concerts (selection)
 
Nov 10 – Festival Access, Pau (Residence+Concert)
Oct 10 – Festival Tec Art Eco, Como
May 10 – Podere Casetta, Ravenna
May 10 – Medionauta, Milan
May 10 – Festival Cronosfera, Turin
May 10 – Festival Vision’R, Paris
Mar 10 – Soirée IRL Performance, Paris

Geo, (Study for) Opus I – Liquid Traces
 

Geo, Opus I – Liquid Traces [Stills]

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This preliminary work (yet to be finalized) is focused on liquid matters which fluidity suggests, in some of its forms, the ever mutating flow of things as well as the traces these flow leave.
 
Concerts (selection)
 
Jun 07 – Festival ASC, Turin 
Apr 07 – Mal au Pixel 2007, Paris
Apr 07 – Galerie Librairie En Marge, Paris
Oct 06 – Festival Le Placard, Milan
Mar 06 – Apt au 21e et. de la tour Boucry, Paris
Mar 06 – Villa Mais D’Ici, Auberviliers (Paris)

The first part of the course title, “The course of things”, refers to the work of Fischli & Weiss “Der Lauf Der Dinge “, which documents a chain of reactions. An ideally infinite sequence of cause and effect.
 
The word “interactive” is meant both in its most technologic meaning and in reference to the mutual action that “things” have among them. The “things” used in the workshop are sensors and actuators driven by a micro computers (Arduino), while “things ” to which the project symbolically refer are climatic and environmental events. The scenario is therefore Earth’s ecosystems.
 
More info on the workshop website.

Video for Jazzy Tourism by Kisk (Lopazz vs Eddie Zarook Remix), commissioned by Apparel Music for its first release.
 
The footage, shot on the smoothly sliding tramway of Porto, required almost no post production, just some editing for synchronizing events… which makes the difference from Michel Gondry’s masterpiece for Star Guitar by The Chemical Brothers (to which this video gives a little tribute).

Abstract

Economy, society and environment are three entwined pillars of sustainability. Many efforts converge already on ecological and economical aspects of sustainability and we are slowly (and hopefully) adapting to make a better use of our resources.
 
As foreseeing and knowledgeable use of physical resources is today the major priority of sustainable trends in production and distribution of physical goods, I tried to apply similar measures to the production and particularly to distribution of cultural goods in order to address social sustainability.
 
In this field of sustainability the materials that are produced and exchanged are not physical resources, but intangible information such as ideas, opinions and meanings. Therefore I tried to remodel the exchange of cultural resources through an optimized consumption of media content.
 
Among the priorities of social sustainability we can mention: promoting social interaction, fostering cultural pluralism, supporting cultural enrichment and rising education level. The underlying logic of our proposal is to spread ideas from one person to another, This transmission of memes would work on two axis, vertically opening a dialogue between popular culture and classical literature and connecting people from different cultures.
 
Conceived in this perspective, “Gem” is a social software (a web-based service), designed for media consumers, which merges benefits from participative media collections and semantic social network. The system relies on user-centered (prosumer-centered actually) connections between media excerpts.
 
 
If you wish to know more about the project, please contact me.

The immersive communication project created a benchmark document of current and next generation developments in the area of immersive communication, gesture recognition and other related, tangible user interfaces. It analysed these developments with a focus on usability, intuitiveness and naturalness of user interaction, and developed a set of recommendations about the use of gesture recognition interfaces.
 
Experientia then imagined possible applications of gesture interface technology, creating a portfolio of concepts modelled around user needs in the areas of communication, organisation and entertainment.

The workshop focused on the development of an interactive mulitmedia artwork linking real gestures to simulated physical models.
 
The experiments arised a discussion on how user’s haptic experience build a mimetic link by which the visitor interpret the piece.
 
Programming relied on Processing and Max/MSP/Jitter, with a particulr focus on my side to the library Mass Spring Damper by Nicolas Montergmont for Max.
 
Download Max Patches.

A minimal concrete noise piece played by an electro-robotic instrument ;) but also a little tribute to “Le Macchine Inutili” by Bruno Munari and to “Der lauf der dinge” by Fischli & Weiss.
 
Messing around with electronics toys, during a workshop held in Domus Academy by Massimo Banzi, I came up with an (almost) endless loop machine…