SCANAUDIENCESCHNITT (IT), Gianluca Sibaldi (IT)

Site-specific audio/video performance, 2019.

SCANAUDIENCE is a site-specific audio/video performance based on the real time scanning of the audience attending the show. The project developed by Gianluca Sibaldi and the duo SCHNITT (Marco Monfardini and Amelie Duchow) uses an electronic device specially developed by the artists: a scanner able to "read" any object, architecture or living being in its formal elements, translating the object's outer and inner dimension in sound and video images. A bar of light is the primary tool in this operation of real time scanning, overpassing in several sequences the audience, analyzing the characteristics related to people’s body shape, height, clothing color and material. The scanning process develops with a sequence of slow vertical and horizontal scannings, memorizing the basic data information, continuing with detail and intense scanning sequences, the beamed light passes through the audience. Each person generates their own individual sound and video images. The scanning process begins with beaming a very low speed structured light on the people in the venue. It is recaptured by a high resolution sensor, while a network of five computers process the captured light and elaborate the scanned data in real time. The software has been specially developed by the artists, it is based on computer vision algorithms and a special kind of neural network to generate both visual and audible results. SCANAUDIENCE is a performance in which the audience becomes the protagonist of the show, but at the same time experiences a new sonorous and visual dimension under the artists’ direction.

Concept and music: SCHNITT and Gianluca Sibaldi
Computer system and programming: Gianluca Sibaldi and Marco Monfardini
Production: Sync / Extrasync

SCHNITT (IT)

SCHNITT is an artistic collaboration between Amelie Duchow and Marco Monfardini evoked from the common interest in electronic music and visual art. The duo works in the transitional area between music, art and technology focusing with their projects on the coherence between audio and video. The development of their own specialized software and electronic devices, allows SCHNITT to create complex site specific audio/video installations and live performances. Their use of abstract media material combined with the artists’ individualistic perception towards technology, builds the balance between form and concept of their works. In 2010 SCHNITT presented SYNCHROPATH, an audio/video project focused on synchronism as a method of composing, released on DVD and 12” LP. With SYNCHROPATH, SCHNITT participates at several international festivals such as the Elektra Festival, Open Source Festival and Robot Festival. In the same year they launched the platform for audio visual artists Sync, with the focus to enlarge musical experience through concepts expressed in new forms of video and sound.

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Gianluca Sibaldi (IT)

Gianluca Sibaldi is a composer, multimedia artist and creative coder working since the late 1980s in the music industry composing soundtracks for the cinema and television. In the 1990s he founded his own music studio 5.1 factory in Italy named after the studios installed surround system 5.1. The studio is a technological space dedicated to audio compositions and the development of multimedia projects. Since 2000 he has been developing and working on multimedia sound installations, making profit of his capacity for innovative software programming. In the last five years, together with SCHNITT, he founded the platform Extrasync that works on several multimedia installations and performances.

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