VisualFlux and Journey Through The Senses Present
An evening of synaesthetic music and visuals.
Visual Flux is a Live Cinema performance by the a.cinema ensemble, based on the legacy of abstract cinema and visual-music pioneers, reinterpreting their poetic universes in terms of contemporary aesthetic and technical challenges. As in all fields of art, the 1960s were fertile years in abstract cinema creations, pointing to poetic and imagetic possibilities that fed the experimental imagination of the following decades. Taking as reference Peter Kubelka’s “flickering cinema”, the organic and psychedelic colors of the Joshua Light Show, the hypnotic mandalas of the brothers James and John Whitney, — all of them founding references for contemporary Live-Cinema practices — in Visual Flux, [:a.cinema:] provides an immersion in high-voltage multisensory environment, where music overflows into cinema, and cinema overflows into sound.
Artistic and Technical Team
Dino Vicente – Synthesizers
Rodrigo Gontijo – Real-time video editing
Sérgio Basbaum – Fretless guitar
Iolanda Sinatra – Production
Duration: 50 minutes
Wednesday, 9th October 2024 at 8PM
Teatro Centro da Terra in São Paulo, Brazil
Rua Piracuama, 19 – Perdizes, São Paulo – Brazil
https://centrodaterra.org.br/centro-da-terra
a.cinema is a Live-Cinema ensemble, performing since 2015. Together, Dino Vicente (synthesizers and custom-made instruments), Rodrigo Gontijo (real-time video editing) and Sérgio Basbaum (fretless guitar and FX) have been exploring and researching the possibilities of sound & image improvisational practices. Producing multisensory, energetic audiovisual performances, with strong immersive character, demanding a high level of concentration and integration from the performers, a.cinema offers its audiences always unique and unrepeatable spectacles. In a world in perpetual and intense transformation, audiovisual performance practices emerge as a response to the demand for events that are sensitive to the instant, and open to the risks necessary for the emergence of the aesthetic novelty, gaining increasing relevance in the contemporary scene.
https://centrodaterra.org.br/journey-through-the-senses
https://www.sympla.com.br/evento/a-cinema-journey-through-the-senses-visualflux/2651802
https://www.facebook.com/events/8286662321417045
Pictures and video from the event
Pictures by Iolanda Sinatra