TONNETZ09B
by António de Sousa Dias
Interactive installation, 2010
Tonnetz09B is an interactive audiovisual installation in stereoscopy and multichannel that arises from my desire to create musical spaces, both sonorous and, more recently, audiovisual, where I propose what I designate as an area of freedom. A space where the viewer can simply be, wander, find, project, think.
In Tonnetz09B, image and sound create a dreamlike, abstract and diffuse world through permanent mutual influence: the relations between visual components act on the resulting sound; and the sound analysis, performed in real time, is used to modify image parameters .
As one navigates this enclosed, but perpetually renewed space, the forms that are presented call for the subject to project their own sensations; impressions in the manner of a Rorschach test or, why not, of a day spent looking at and listening to the clouds.
Concept and Programming: António de Sousa Dias
Additional programming: Tifanie Bouchara
Scientific Consultant: Christian Jacquemin
Production: KINTOP (Ansgar Schaefer), MNAC – Chiado Museum (Emília Tavares)
Supported by: Direcção-Geral das Artes, Ministério da Cultura
Additional support (France):
CICM – Centre de recherche Informatique et Création Musicale
LIMSI – Laboratoire d’Informatique pour la Mécanique et les Sciences de l’Ingénieur
Premiere at the National Museum of Contemporary Art-Chiado Museum, January 2011, Temps d’Images Festival
Composer, multimedia artist and researcher, Antonio de Sousa Dias holds a Ph.D. in Aesthetics, Sciences and Technologies of the Arts – Music (Paris 8) and the Superior Degree in Composition (Conservatório Nacional de Lisboa) and he is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon. Author of music for films, documentaries and animation, as well as works exploring different genres (instrumental, electroacoustic, mixed music), performance, musical theater and disciplinary crossings, the multimedia, installation and visual creation play an important role in his career. He participated in the group ColecViva, participates in the group Música Nova and participated with the group Les Phonogénistes, in the projects Vertiges de l’espace (2008-2010) and Vertiges de l’image (2009-2013, DVD 2011). Co-author of Natureza Morta | Stilleben by Susana de Sousa Dias (MNAC, Lisbon, 2010) and the Mutabilis project with Paula Pinto and Daniel Rondulha (TDI16, 2016; MV17, 2017; CDI, 2018) he is the author of works such as “…há dois ou…” (CAM/FCG, 1998), “Ce désert est faux” (CCB, 2012), Monthey’04 (LIMSI, FR, 2008; Arc-et-Senan, FR, 2012), the Tonnetz series (MNAC, Lisboa, 2011; REM, Aveiro, 2017) and A Dama e o Unicórnio with Maria Teresa Horta (The Lady and the Unicorn, TMSL/ Temps d’Images/ Dom Quixote, 2013; Pagine d’Arte, 2017).
Synopsis
Tonnetz09B is an interactive audiovisual installation in stereoscopy and multichannel that arises from my desire to create musical spaces, both sonorous and, more recently, audiovisual, where I propose what I designate as an area of freedom. A space where the viewer can simply be, wander, find, project, think.
In Tonnetz09B, image and sound create a dreamlike, abstract and diffuse world through permanent mutual influence: the relations between visual components act on the resulting sound; and the sound analysis, performed in real time, is used to modify image parameters .
As one navigates this enclosed, but perpetually renewed space, the forms that are presented call for the subject to project their own sensations; impressions in the manner of a Rorschach test or, why not, of a day spent looking at and listening to the clouds.
Credits
Concept and Programming: António de Sousa Dias
Additional programming: Tifanie Bouchara
Scientific Consultant: Christian Jacquemin
Production: KINTOP (Ansgar Schaefer), MNAC – Chiado Museum (Emília Tavares)
Supported by: Direcção-Geral das Artes, Ministério da Cultura
Additional support (France):
CICM – Centre de recherche Informatique et Création Musicale
LIMSI – Laboratoire d’Informatique pour la Mécanique et les Sciences de l’Ingénieur
Exhibitions
Premiere at the National Museum of Contemporary Art-Chiado Museum, January 2011, Temps d’Images Festival
António de Sousa Dias
Composer, multimedia artist and researcher, Antonio de Sousa Dias holds a Ph.D. in Aesthetics, Sciences and Technologies of the Arts – Music (Paris 8) and the Superior Degree in Composition (Conservatório Nacional de Lisboa) and he is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon. Author of music for films, documentaries and animation, as well as works exploring different genres (instrumental, electroacoustic, mixed music), performance, musical theater and disciplinary crossings, the multimedia, installation and visual creation play an important role in his career. He participated in the group ColecViva, participates in the group Música Nova and participated with the group Les Phonogénistes, in the projects Vertiges de l’espace (2008-2010) and Vertiges de l’image (2009-2013, DVD 2011). Co-author of Natureza Morta | Stilleben by Susana de Sousa Dias (MNAC, Lisbon, 2010) and the Mutabilis project with Paula Pinto and Daniel Rondulha (TDI16, 2016; MV17, 2017; CDI, 2018) he is the author of works such as “…há dois ou…” (CAM/FCG, 1998), “Ce désert est faux” (CCB, 2012), Monthey’04 (LIMSI, FR, 2008; Arc-et-Senan, FR, 2012), the Tonnetz series (MNAC, Lisboa, 2011; REM, Aveiro, 2017) and A Dama e o Unicórnio with Maria Teresa Horta (The Lady and the Unicorn, TMSL/ Temps d’Images/ Dom Quixote, 2013; Pagine d’Arte, 2017).