Dithernoise – di Simon Longo
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Dithernoise. Ecstasy meditation, technoetich shamanism, Simon Longo
In DITHERNOISE live AV sets each performance is unique and adapted to the specific situation, the live real time audiovisual composition can change between slow time-expanding soundscapes, to glitch based digital beats, the visual can at times present imagery exploring symmetries and natural patterns at times flicker based abstract video effects by which, an attempt is made to induce a synaesthetic experience.
Simon Longo began with an introspective study into synesthesia and principles of neuroscience DITHERNOISE experiments and explores field theories and information theories to create real time audio-visual synergies.
DITHERNOISE proposes a shamanic perspective mediated through the digital medium, his performance involves a number of different techniques that might vary depending on the particular performance space and location. The audiovisual process in all the performances is improvised in real time and the playback is specified for the particular performance space when possible.
Dithernoise. Ecstasy meditation, technoethic shamanism
DITHERNOISE draws on an imaginary sound-canvas as a result of intuitive artistic gesture, the approach to rhythm is experimental and casual, the performance aim to create a coherent flow or mass, atmosphere and rhythms metaphorically drawing to fields theories and the idea of an interconnected consciousness. In the performance organic sources are processed within the digital medium, the concept of time becomes obsolete.
Cross-modal rhythmical structures are generated by the simultaneous experience of aural and video information associated on the fly according to subjective syneshetic intuition. Dithernoise’s audiovisual set deals with theories of information and scientific paradoxes mediated in real time through the digital medium.
Simon speculates the possibility to access a direct awareness of reality through the experience of a singularity in form of a synesthetic experience, Simon proposes that, as a crystal that when struck by light disperse the light energy into frequencies, the artwork should be seen as the crystal in respect of fields of ideas. He speculates his work might help to understand new aspects of a known field by dispersing information making the information available in another form.
Dithernoise. Ecstasy meditation, technoethic shamanism, Simon Longo
Waves interference patterns, The hard problem.
Av set and installation – Gesamtkunstwerk.
The title for DITHERNOISE AV set place the work in between philosophical and scientific paradoxes, the artist intention is to juxtapose paradoxes in science and philosophy, challenging the fundamental limitation of the observer to predict experimental results, and “the hard problem” in consciousness introduced by David Chalmers, why and how we have the qualia, and the phenomenal experiences, on the basis of our current mechanistic understanding of neuroscience phenomenological experience can not be explained, Dithernoise explores synesthesia through intuition in attempt to generate a singularity through experience, is set to challenge our fundamental concepts and understanding of reality.
Dithernoise. Ecstasy meditation, technoethic shamanism, Simon Longo