Vito Willems


Projects>

Escape From The Wheel
Time Vacuum III
Loud Silence
Contra Marītō
Time Vacuum II
Time Vacuum I
Resonance and Repetition
The Charge
Castle 6
Governors of the Æther
Fluxus Noesis
Membrane Series
Noema
Panoptic Emissions
Open Axis
Cube of Space
Glimpulse
Impossible Interaction

Collaborative Projects>

Passage I
Fragile Ecologies
Apophenia
Dharma Initiatives
Jaunu
Untitled
Disruptive Silence
_Interference_

Publications>


Decentralizing Authorship, Decentralizing the Self
Non-Hierarchical Modes of Listening
The Divinity of Art and the Destruction of Classification
Virtuality and the Superdynamical
Fluid Space & Transphysical Entities
Noema #1 | Noema #2
Signalement

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Disruptive Silence (2017) w/ Bin Koh
Audiovisual Spatial Performance | Quadrophonic Sound

Location

19.12.2017 | Fiber x Sexyland, Amsterdam

Software

Sound and Signal Processing in Max/MSP
Serial Communication in Arduino (C++)

Materials

4 Loudspeakers, Wireless Microphone, Custom LED Strips, Custom Modular Synthesizer, Custom Multichannel Light Interface, MIDI-Controller, MIDI-Keyboard, Audio Mixer, Audio Interface, Computer with Custom Software

About

Voices wander aimlessly from space to space. Localised voices are following the signals made out of non-voice and light, modifying the meaning of its physical presence. Perhaps, the voice does not necessarily support its meaning but can be able to interrupt it. This interruption amongst voices, non-voices and light creates a symbiosis with the space.

Text

This project began with the question: ‘what the voices in the machine does when the machine is turned off?’ A collaboration with visual artist and performer Bin Koh, together we conceptualized a narrative about the power dimension between a trapped voice and the machine. With this narrative, we divided the performance into three acts. The first act starts with the training process of the voice in the machine. Then on the second act, the voice starts to react to demands by users of devices. After responding multiple demands by the machine, the exhausted voice starts to deny all the demands and be able to control the machine. For the performance, we deployed a system with LED strips that reacted based on her voice. Supported by spatialized live-electronics we aimed to transform the space.