agar agar (2022)

agar agar is an audiovisual performance by Martina Moro and Fabian Lanzmaier. Sounds produced in real time by different Synthesizers are sent to audio transducers exciting liquids of different densities inside a container. The patterns appearing on the surface of the liquids are filmed and projected on a screen. The image gathered by the video camera gets transformed and feeds back in the audio path, changing certain parameters of the audio synthesizer, resulting in an open feedback system with its own dynamics and dependencies. Auditive and visual aspects as well as all the other components (whether analog, physical, digital, human,..) which are part of the apparatus are treated with equal importance and have equal influence inside this complex system and on the outcome of the performance. agar agar is a sculptural instrument, a “miniature stage”, that under many spotlights, reveals a frantic choreography of frequencies dancing with each other.