Peter van Bergen, IOM-AIM Research, Konfrontationen, Nickelsdorf 2022

Описание: OUTSIDE INSIDE
from IOM-AIM Research, produced by LOOS/Studio LOOS (NL)
at the Gallery of Kleylehof
as part of NICKELSDORF KONFRONTATIONEN FESTIVAL 2022
Dates: July 22 – 23 – 24 in 2022
Times: 14.30 - 17 hrs

Since the end of 2013 Peter van Bergen and Johan van Kreij have an artistic dialogue and work together in the IOM-AIM Research. IOM-AIM researches interactive computer music improvisation with as a starting point improvisation defined as “solving problems caused by unstable and unpredictable activities” (Van Bergen).
Van Bergen researches definitions, notions and concepts of musical improvisation and composition and their relationship, communication, interaction, instability and transformation and discusses the outcomes with Van Kreij. The role of Van Kreij in the research is the development of specialized software realizing computer aided interaction for performance. This development can be described as an ongoing refinement and implementation of a musical language and musical interaction. At the core of the system, that can be described as a collection of agents, is the analysis of input and a variety of generative processes that create distinct musical responses. Ultimately IOM-AIM is an (software) environment in which computers and humans cooperate, interact, communicate and generate.

OUTSIDE INSIDE is a next step in IOM-AIM Research (Peter van Bergen & Johan van Kreij). IOM-AIM researches improvisation as an art of instability in human computer interaction (HCI). Central themes are the present and the absent, human-computer interaction, improvisation, interactivity, public participation, instability and transformation, dialogue, the private and the public domain.

OUTSIDE INSIDE is a complex, multilayered composition/environment in the tradition of Voyager of George E. Lewis in which various behaviours, choices and processes influence each other like in a web: automatic algorithmic sound generating processes; compositional seeds partly genetically based on tone patterns substracted from for instance Evan Parker’s solo soprano saxophone performances; data coming in from a variety of sensors measuring audience activity (the audience) and sound inputs by musical performers. Together they feed and form an musical environment that starts a dialogue with the environment/the room, the audience and musical performers. Themes are ensemble, feedback, grains, tubes, choir. Audience is invited to enter the gallery Kleylehof and start their own dialogue with IOM-AIM. Musical performers are invited to enter the gallery and start a musical dialogue with the room, artificial ensemble and choir.

The content of extreme forms of syn- en asynchronicism, communication and non-communication, stability and instability, minimalism and complexity, expectation and surprise logical and non-logical, finds an artistic expression in the aesthetic form through which the drama is unfolding itself, and the performance is created, developed and changing in the moment. The explosive and implosive power generated by the notion of desintergration and the transformation that comes from the re-intergration constitues a guideline for the research and the creative process. In this sense the above mentioned form and content unite in a big bang of possibilities.