Walking Bread Live | Piano, Opera, and Dragonframe-Driven Animation Performance

Описание: This #performance presents Walking Bread as an extended cinema experiment where projected #animation, live drawing, and sound intersect in real time. The event combines hand-drawn imagery, a pianist generating improvisational structures, and the resonance of an opera basso profundo voice. Through the integration of Dragonframe technology, drawings created on-site were captured and immediately composited into the sequence, producing additive layers of animation that evolved directly with the music.

The setup operates as both concert and innovation laboratory. The pianist’s rhythm cues initiated live drawing input, which Dragonframe registered frame by frame, feeding directly into projection. The basso profundo voice extended the atmosphere, functioning less as traditional opera and more as a deep frequency architecture binding the evolving visuals. The result is an animated system that grows in direct dialogue with acoustic performance — the act of drawing becoming inseparable from the act of sound.

Historically, this approach recalls the multimedia spectacles of Bauhaus performance, the process-based experiments of Norman McLaren at the National Film Board of Canada (NFB/ONF), and the expanded cinema of Stan VanDerBeek. In contemporary culture, parallels can be found in live VJ sets, VR installations, and orchestral crossovers such as Final Fantasy and Studio Ghibli concerts. At the same time, the use of Dragonframe situates the piece within the precise tools of stop-motion and experimental film production, adapted here for live improvisation.

As process documentation, the recording emphasizes how analog drawing and digital sequencing can merge into a hybrid research platform. The performance preserves an environment where the #WalkingBread universe operates as both film and live, collaborative instrument.

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