Steina Vasulka & MASH :: December 6, 2008; 7:00 - 9:00 pm :: Norrköpings Konstmuseum, Kristinaplatsen, Norrköping, Sweden.

Steina Vasulka — Violin Power: In 1991, after having experimentally interfaced my acoustic violin with a variable speed video cassette player, I bought a MIDI violin and a Pioneer Disk Player. Interfacing these instruments with a computer gave me an instant access to any frame of video on the disk as well as access to fast/slow and forward/backward movements. The initial software was written by Russ Gritzo and further developed and improved by Bill Heckel. Violin Power is a ongoing continuous project with an ever increasing ‘repertoire.’ So far I have made five videodisks and I change the program for every performance. — Steina

MASH (Magnus Alexanderson and Sachiko Hayashi) — [beyond]: [beyond] is an interactive audio-visual performance. Its interactive components (audio - visual) are linked via a computer programme (Max/Jitter) as well as via human perception to achieve flexible and yet complex structural audio-visual composition. Moreover [beyond] is an amalgam of various human expressions both on personal and collective levels. The divisions that have been inherent in our world - tradition/new, composition/improvisation, West/East, machine/human - are all fused in [beyond] as essential part of personal histories of the performers.

The audio, EAM performed live via midi-guitar, sampler, signal processor and looper, is based on various existing practices and experiences to compose and perform music. To find flexibility and create a mobile structure, the music is neither improvised nor completely notated; it is a combination of instrumentation of sounds prepared uniquely to its moving imagery and flexible execution of those sounds unpredetermined in time and manner.