AV performance with Diogo Carriço
Orgelpark, Amsterdam
After a successful first edition in 2022, Creative Coding Utrecht and Orgelpark invited FIBER Festival to join the second edition of Registers of Code 2023 at Orgelpark Amsterdam.
This experimental concert night provided a sonic space for local artists to develop and perform newly developed pieces.
Historically known as a musical tradition evolved from improvisation, organ music shares more similarities to the art of software development than one might expect.
The organ has played an important role in the musical development of pianist Diogo Carriço.
This experience gains a new life amongst his current practice in electronic music through the use of the technological possibilities provided by the Hyperorgans at the Orlgelpark. Diogo brought a new composition accompanied by live computer generated visuals of Carolien Teunisse using sound and visual input by means of a Kinect sensor. The organs where played like electronic instruments in his characteristic minimal and experimental style. Human capabilities and organ limitations where in this way extended in an hypnotic yet emotional experience.
Diogo Carriço is a posthuman pianist and audiovisual artist incarnating the urgent balance between people, nature and technology. He engages with the deconstruction and transmutation of pianism and the piano, in a relation of forces with electronics that infuse fluidity and restlessness in oneness. A boundary breaking approach and fluidity between acoustic, electronic and visual elements represents his compositions and performances. Adventuring on a minimalist piano, he infuses drifting harmonies and undulating melodies with electronic experimentalism. Diogo conceives sonic life forms that permeate asymmetries of media, bringing audience into immersion in dreamy soundscapes and live visuals that have as much from the natural world as abstract paintings.
Next to his performances, Diogo is interested in pushing forward the way new technologies can be used for musical purposes. Such is done via the use of body motion sensors, like the Leap Motion hands sensor, to strictly connect the musician's gesture to electronic sound manipulation. As result of this work, an invitation to be artist in residency in the University of Arts of Amsterdam followed in 2019, where later he occupied the position of researcher. Supported by the newly formed Culture Club of the same instituition, he prototyped "Qi", a unique software for shaping musical performances and new media art with the intuition of hand gestures.
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