Isabella Hong – Looking Outwards -09

I am doing my Looking Outwards post on Hannah K’s post from Week 4. She did a post on Six Drawings, a joint collaborative effort between artist Maotik, percussionist David Espinosa, and musical director David Adamcyk. The project was presented in an audiovisual and instrumental performance at Société des Arts Technologiques in Montreal during the IX Symposium in the spring of 2014. The displays on the rubber orb were controlled through the program TouchDesign while the connected computer ran a Max multimedia software.

I also agree that the work is a completely immersive experience. When the first sounds are visually displayed on the giant orb, the room becomes silent and everyone is enraptured and fascinated by the erie, almost tribal, audiovisuals. One simply cannot peel their eyes away.