FOUR-WHEEL DRIVE
by
Katherine Liberovskaya: video with Phill Niblock: sound collage
4 projection and quadrophonic sound installation (2006)
Project description (short): "Four-Wheel Drive" is a sonic video installation piece consisting of 4 projections and a quadrophonic sound collage. It reframes visual and sonic properties of automotive technology into artistic content by way of surveillance technology. Recordings by a surveillance camera of images, and by a mic of sounds, of the movement of wheels (tires) of a moving car on different types of road surfaces explore the "musicality" and visual and tactile qualities of motion in relation to the motor vehicle and form an immersive audio-visual experience.
Project description (long): "Four-Wheel Drive" is a sonic video installation piece consisting of 4 projections and a quadrophonic sound collage. It presents a double détournement of common technologies by reframing visual and audio properties related to automotive technology into artistic content by way of surveillance technology. Recordings (video and audio) by a surveillance camera and microphone of the movement of wheels (tires) of a moving car on different types of road surfaces explore the "musicality" and visual and tactile qualities of motion in relation to the motor vehicle. They form an immersive environment where different channels of sound interact with each other, with the space, and with the extreme close-up footage of the wheels. The concept consists in attaching a small surveillance camera and a microphone to the body of a car, just above each of the wheels with the lens and capsule aimed towards the road, and recording the image and sound while the car is in motion. The exercise is repeated for each of the 4 wheels on a different kind of road surface (concrete, gravel, grass, cobble stone...). The resulting 4 sequences of extremely close-up views of moving wheels and roads will form 4 loops that will be projected (from DVDs) on 4 large-scale screens or surfaces in a space where it will ideally be possible to present 2 projections per wall on 2 facing walls so as to reference the configuration of the four wheels of a car. From the recorded audio material, NY composer Phill Niblock will develop a thick, multi-layered sound collage. This immersive quadrophonic sonic environment, where the different sources of sound will interact with each other, will itself interact with the space and with the extreme close-up footage of the wheels and roads that become, by virtue of the large scale presentation, huge tactile textured abstract moving images evoking gigantic floating hyperreal color-field paintings drifting away from their association with reality.
Technical description: On a technical level, Four-Wheel Drive consists of 4 DVDs and 1 CD which play simultaneously in loops. Each of the disks are of slightly varying durations resulting in perpetually different combinations between the sources of audio and video material over time.
Technical and spatial requirements: The necessary presentation equipment comprises: - a dark space large enough to accommodate two projections per wall (of at least 4 X 3 meters each projection, but ideally larger) on two facing walls - 4 DVD players - 4 DLP projectors - 1 CD player that with loop capability - 4 high quality speakers (with good sub-woofers) and an amplifier for the quadrophonic sound collage on the CD
BIOS
Katherine Liberovskaya is a video and media artist based in Montreal, Canada, and New York City. She has been working predominantly in experimental video since the late eighties. Over the years, she has produced many single-channel videos, video installation works and video performances which have been presented at a wide variety of artistic venues and events around the world. As of recent years her work - in single-channel and installation video as well as performance - mainly revolves around collaborations with new music composers and sound artists, notably Phill Niblock, Al Margolis/If,Bwana, Zanana, Hitoshi Kojo, David Watson, Richard Garet, David First and Keiko Uenishi (o.blaat). Since 2003 she is active in live video mixing exploring improvisation with numerous live new music/audio artists including: Shelley Hirsch, Anne Wellmer, Kristin Norderval, Monique Buzzarté, Margarida Garcia, Anthony Coleman, Micheal Delia, André Gonçalves, Matt Pass, Audrey Chen, murmer, Marina Rosenfeld, Jim Bell, Jason Kahn, Tom Hamilton, among many others. She is also involved in the programming and organization of diverse media art events, notably with Experimental Intermedia, NY (Screen Compositions 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011) and the OptoSonic Tea series, in collaboration with Ursula Scherrer, at Diapason in NYC. Recent presentations, exhibitions and performances include, among others: Paivascapes #1 (2011, Nodar, Portugal), FIFA International Festival of Films on Art (2011, Montreal, Canada), Cyberfest 2010 (St-Petersburg, Russia), Ear to the Earth Festival 2010 (EMF, NYC), Festival Sinsal.Oito–Sinsal Insolitos 2010 (Vigo, Spain), LMAK Series (2010, LMAK Gallery, NYC), ScrapCycle 2010 (Devotion Gallery, Brooklyn), Gallery Skolska28, (2010, solo exhibition, Prague, Czech Republic). www.liberovskaya.net
Phill Niblock is an intermedia artist using music, film, photography, video and computers. He makes thick, loud drones of music, filled with microtones of instrumental timbres which generate many other tones in the performance space. Simultaneously, he presents films / videos which look at the movement of people working, or computer driven black and white abstract images floating through time. He was born in Indiana in 1933. Since the mid-60's he has been making music and intermedia performances which have been shown at numerous venues around the world among which: The Museum of Modern Art; The Wadsworth Atheneum; the Kitchen; the Paris Autumn Festival; Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels; Institute of Contemporary Art, London; Akademie der Kunste, Berlin; ZKM; Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard; World Music Institute at Merkin Hall NYC. Since 1985, he has been the director of the Experimental Intermedia Foundation in New York where he has been an artist/member since 1968. He is the producer of Music and Intermedia presentations at EI since 1973 (about 1000 performances) and the curator of EI's XI Records label. In 1993 he was part of the formation of an Experimental Intermedia organization in Gent, Belgium - EI v.z.w. Gent - which supports an artist-in-residence house and installations there. Phill Niblock's music is available on the XI, Moikai, Mode and Touch labels. A DVD of films and music is available on the Extreme label. www.phillniblock.com www.experimentalintermedia.org
FOUR-WHEEL DRIVE
by
Katherine Liberovskaya: video with Phill Niblock: sound collage
4 projection and quadrophonic sound installation (2006)
Project description (short): "Four-Wheel Drive" is a sonic video installation piece consisting of 4 projections and a quadrophonic sound collage. It reframes visual and sonic properties of automotive technology into artistic content by way of surveillance technology. Recordings by a surveillance camera of images, and by a mic of sounds, of the movement of wheels (tires) of a moving car on different types of road surfaces explore the "musicality" and visual and tactile qualities of motion in relation to the motor vehicle and form an immersive audio-visual experience.
Project description (long): "Four-Wheel Drive" is a sonic video installation piece consisting of 4 projections and a quadrophonic sound collage. It presents a double détournement of common technologies by reframing visual and audio properties related to automotive technology into artistic content by way of surveillance technology. Recordings (video and audio) by a surveillance camera and microphone of the movement of wheels (tires) of a moving car on different types of road surfaces explore the "musicality" and visual and tactile qualities of motion in relation to the motor vehicle. They form an immersive environment where different channels of sound interact with each other, with the space, and with the extreme close-up footage of the wheels. The concept consists in attaching a small surveillance camera and a microphone to the body of a car, just above each of the wheels with the lens and capsule aimed towards the road, and recording the image and sound while the car is in motion. The exercise is repeated for each of the 4 wheels on a different kind of road surface (concrete, gravel, grass, cobble stone...). The resulting 4 sequences of extremely close-up views of moving wheels and roads will form 4 loops that will be projected (from DVDs) on 4 large-scale screens or surfaces in a space where it will ideally be possible to present 2 projections per wall on 2 facing walls so as to reference the configuration of the four wheels of a car. From the recorded audio material, NY composer Phill Niblock will develop a thick, multi-layered sound collage. This immersive quadrophonic sonic environment, where the different sources of sound will interact with each other, will itself interact with the space and with the extreme close-up footage of the wheels and roads that become, by virtue of the large scale presentation, huge tactile textured abstract moving images evoking gigantic floating hyperreal color-field paintings drifting away from their association with reality.
Technical description: On a technical level, Four-Wheel Drive consists of 4 DVDs and 1 CD which play simultaneously in loops. Each of the disks are of slightly varying durations resulting in perpetually different combinations between the sources of audio and video material over time.
Technical and spatial requirements: The necessary presentation equipment comprises: - a dark space large enough to accommodate two projections per wall (of at least 4 X 3 meters each projection, but ideally larger) on two facing walls - 4 DVD players - 4 DLP projectors - 1 CD player that with loop capability - 4 high quality speakers (with good sub-woofers) and an amplifier for the quadrophonic sound collage on the CD
BIOS
Katherine Liberovskaya is a video and media artist based in Montreal, Canada, and New York City. She has been working predominantly in experimental video since the late eighties. Over the years, she has produced many single-channel videos, video installation works and video performances which have been presented at a wide variety of artistic venues and events around the world. As of recent years her work - in single-channel and installation video as well as performance - mainly revolves around collaborations with new music composers and sound artists, notably Phill Niblock, Al Margolis/If,Bwana, Zanana, Hitoshi Kojo, David Watson, Richard Garet, David First and Keiko Uenishi (o.blaat). Since 2003 she is active in live video mixing exploring improvisation with numerous live new music/audio artists including: Shelley Hirsch, Anne Wellmer, Kristin Norderval, Monique Buzzarté, Margarida Garcia, Anthony Coleman, Micheal Delia, André Gonçalves, Matt Pass, Audrey Chen, murmer, Marina Rosenfeld, Jim Bell, Jason Kahn, Tom Hamilton, among many others. She is also involved in the programming and organization of diverse media art events, notably with Experimental Intermedia, NY (Screen Compositions 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011) and the OptoSonic Tea series, in collaboration with Ursula Scherrer, at Diapason in NYC. Recent presentations, exhibitions and performances include, among others: Paivascapes #1 (2011, Nodar, Portugal), FIFA International Festival of Films on Art (2011, Montreal, Canada), Cyberfest 2010 (St-Petersburg, Russia), Ear to the Earth Festival 2010 (EMF, NYC), Festival Sinsal.Oito–Sinsal Insolitos 2010 (Vigo, Spain), LMAK Series (2010, LMAK Gallery, NYC), ScrapCycle 2010 (Devotion Gallery, Brooklyn), Gallery Skolska28, (2010, solo exhibition, Prague, Czech Republic). www.liberovskaya.net
Phill Niblock is an intermedia artist using music, film, photography, video and computers. He makes thick, loud drones of music, filled with microtones of instrumental timbres which generate many other tones in the performance space. Simultaneously, he presents films / videos which look at the movement of people working, or computer driven black and white abstract images floating through time. He was born in Indiana in 1933. Since the mid-60's he has been making music and intermedia performances which have been shown at numerous venues around the world among which: The Museum of Modern Art; The Wadsworth Atheneum; the Kitchen; the Paris Autumn Festival; Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels; Institute of Contemporary Art, London; Akademie der Kunste, Berlin; ZKM; Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard; World Music Institute at Merkin Hall NYC. Since 1985, he has been the director of the Experimental Intermedia Foundation in New York where he has been an artist/member since 1968. He is the producer of Music and Intermedia presentations at EI since 1973 (about 1000 performances) and the curator of EI's XI Records label. In 1993 he was part of the formation of an Experimental Intermedia organization in Gent, Belgium - EI v.z.w. Gent - which supports an artist-in-residence house and installations there. Phill Niblock's music is available on the XI, Moikai, Mode and Touch labels. A DVD of films and music is available on the Extreme label. www.phillniblock.com www.experimentalintermedia.org