Concert version
Format: Concert / tetraptych 5.1ch sound version
Year: 2008
Duration: 30:00
Concept, direction, composition, programming: Ryoichi Kurokawa
Support: Recombinant Media Labs
Description
“This work is a concert version of the installation ‘Parallel Head’, presented with diptych screens and 5.1ch surround sound. It focuses on synesthesia, an audiovisual stimulus, a spatial orientation, and on the extension of perception by the spatial/three-dimensional feeling of sound and image.” (Ryoichi Kurokawa)
Concept
“This work is composed of filmed scenes, field recordings, and generative audio/animation. On ten screens surrounding the spectators, the multiple pieces of information are projected one after the other. The commonplace scenes look like fragments of the viewers’ memories, or perhaps of their expectations…
The spatial and temporal audiovisual synthesis flits in diverse directions so that they can feel it in the three dimensions; the sequences of sound and image, losing their temporal direction, are arranged in various locations and the information and memory existing in parallel newly amplify while crossing each other.
The viewers could feel as if they had gone inside the brain. When they are encircled by the multi-layered vast high density data of light and sound, how do they recognize that enormous information? This spatial touch stimulus by audiovision might be able to provoke the evolution of perception of the spectators.” (Ryoichi Kurokawa)
