deCrypt0graphic

 

pics (to come)
archived stream (to come)
 
 
       
  Collaborators: Stony Brook University (Wang Center Lecture Hall 2 SBU), Stony Brook, New York, USA  
    John Hopkins/neoscenes - Prescott, Arizona, USA  
    Steve Tinsky - Chiang Mai, Thailand  
       
  Date: 10 april 2005, sunday  
       
  Time: 6:00-7:15pm EST / 3:00-4:15pm MST / 5:00-6:15am GMT+7  
       
  Live stream url: rtsp://qt2.waag.org/decrypt.sdp  
    (Best viewed in QuickTime)  
       
   

deCrypt0graphic is a multi-city streaming performance that is part of the
Music for Peace Project 2005

The Music for Peace Project is a global effort to fill the world with music as a call for peace. By coordinating a vast number of concerts worldwide between April 8-10, 2005, The Music for Peace Project will bring popular and media attention to international peace efforts while building a global community of active, socially conscious artists.

Dedicated to cultivating peace as both a means and an end, the Music for Peace Project creates a global celebration of peace and provides a voice for the vibrant community that believes in peaceful solutions for the future.

 
       
       
   

deCrypt0graphic explores the idea of breaking codes and defying secrecy to create a
common "language."
Visual signals (i.e., colors, symbols, patterns) drawn from Morse code, semaphores, and distress signals will be used to guide a directed improvisation involving live video/audio processing and performance between artists in Stony Brook, NY; Prescott, AZ; and Chiang Mai, Thailand.
It is an experiment within a new paradigm for interaction, moving from an age of information and coding, to an age of the imagination where "hard and fast" choices do not need to be made because "hard" will give way to supple.

 

Mission Statement:

To promote peace and foster cultural connections via interactive creativity within a collaborative online environment, encouraging the transcendence of boundaries that are geographic, socio-econonomic, and disciplinary through digital and artistic initiatives.

 
       
   

Crew and Credits:

Bletchley Park 05 at Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA
Raed Atouli: ambient sounds with live feed

Josephine Dorado: team coordinator/streaming facilitator
Robert Hunter: technical facilitator
Tiffany Lawrence: performer
Aaron Kagan: turntables
Neely Ovalioglu: live video processing
Andy Papadeas: live mix of turntables and violin
Ben Robison: violin with electronics

Prescott, AZ, USA
John Hopkins/neoscenes: live video and audio processing

Chiang Mai, Thailand
Steve Tinsky: live video processing