CLUSTER.X © Kurt Hentschläger
CLUSTER.X is a collaborative work by Edmund Campion & Kurt Hentschläger based on the existing audiovisual work, CLUSTER by Kurt Hentschläger.
In the weightless choreography of CLUSTER.X , human figures appear mostly as an undifferentiated particle blur and sound as a pulsing, amorphous mass, together forming a cloud of ambiguous matter made of body parts, light and drone. CLUSTER.X describes a meta-organism with a decidedly anti-individualistic character, yet still unmistakably human.
Kurt Hentschläger
The impeccable musicians of the Ensemble InterContemporain are installed and mated to the audiovisual artwork CLUSTER.X . We are intercrossing the arts, where all manner of hell might break loose. Out of all these pieces, there really is no puzzle to be solved, no better art form to be bred. There is only the hope of gaining a moment, one born from a deeply interwoven collaboration with artist Kurt Hentschläger. Yes, it is another mixed-media show! Yet each one, particularly this one, simultaneously dismisses and desires the moment, an immersion into the current day Mysterium (the space of the numen, the place of beauty).
Edmund Campion
Durée : approx. 25 minutes
Premiere: 9th of October 2015 at the La Cité de la musique – Philharmonie 2 in Paris (France),
as part of the Turbulences numériques and Némo, Biennale internationale des arts numériques.
Audiovisual artist Kurt Hentschläger in collaboration with composer Edmund Campion
Electronic surround soundtrack and video: Kurt Hentschläger
Instrumental score and live processing: Edmund Campion
The performance of Cluster.X (in Paris / Berkeley / Chapel Hill) is made possible in part
with technical support from The Center for New Music and Audio Technologies
(CNMAT), University of California, Berkeley.
Thanks to Jeff Lubow (CNMAT) for spatial software and programming support
Production management: Epidemic (Richard Castelli assisted by Florence Berthaud,
Claire Dugot and Chara Skiadelli)
CLUSTER Production Kurt Hentschläger 2009-2015:
Original co-production: Arcadi, France
Additional production support and residency provided by EMPAC/ Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute and the Jaffe Fund for Experimental Media and Performing Arts
Ogre/Bullet & Max Msp Programming - Rob Ramirez
Ableton Live & Max for Live Programming - Ian Brill
3D Character Design - Chris Day
