I do not love NYC

Audiovisual Installation

Tibor Fabian and Autobam (Simone Lalli), under the name Elec, act out an algebraic representation of the contemporary city. Runtime generated audio-visual structures delineate an abstract yet pertinent image of urban forms and movements.
Buildings oscillate like square waves, triangular vehicles race along and are modulated through overlapping, skeletal trees branch out like neural structures and vibrate in a harmoniously blended context, where audio and video appear firmly bound in one sole, precise representation.
The metropolis cited in the title becomes a simple icon of the contemporary urban stereotype, not despised but dissected, analysed, questioned together with the entire view of the world and of society.

This live set up attempts to deal with visual and audio sound languages in a way that is always more univocal, searching for hybrid symbols that are manifested in both spaces.
The audio sections are created through sampling techniques and modular synthesis and are hooked up to a midi console for live control. The sound is surprisingly tactile and visual, inspired by the idea of movement and transit within a varied and mutable spatial context. The visual objects are programmed in action script as three dimensional carriers, thus rotated and projected in real time in a video where all the parameters of form and time, including the movement of the camera, are controlled live.
The audio signal is converted into numerical values that, in video algorithms, function as oscillators and, in accordance with the performer's actions, modulate the properties of the visual forms.

Video/Animation: Tibor Fabian
Audio: Autobam (Simone Lalli)

Winner of ElettroWave Challenge, A/V best project
2007

I DO NOT LOVE NYC is part of Italians Do It Better, a DVD produced for Optronica Festival 2007, London, featuring artists: Elec, Kinotek, Mylicon/En, Tez, Quayola and Otolab.

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