PE R C E I V E REALITY
Perceive Reality AV is a vivid exhortation to deepen the relationship with reality, avoiding simple and often illusory visions. In a historical context that fosters the proliferation of dual information and visions, individuals are increasingly exposed to the danger of perceiving less the complexity of events, thus losing the training to express complex and articulated opinions, the result of a reflection, whether individual or collective. Without having the presumption of resolving epochal issues, the project alerts to the fact that univocal answers do not exist and that only by developing a path of knowledge and giving ourselves the opportunity to examine things in depth, can we enter into the relationship with the existing.”
Based on this concept and in collaboration with the visual artist Riccardo Franco-Loiri (aka AKASHA), KHOMPA developed the Perceive Reality A/V Live Performance, premiered by the renowned British magazine Factmag.
The show is based on the performance of the musician who, using sophisticated sensors applied on the drum kit, controls in real time both the entire musical apparatus and the live visuals too. 100% live. At each touch of the drums correspond different actions: the change of a musical note, the input or output of an instrument within a composition, as well as a video/colour change, switching on or off a video effect, as well as the modulation of different parameters, both audio and video, through the use of audio-reactive filters and envelope followers.
The visuals will have the task of leading the viewer into the main Perceive Reality concept. The video projections, which at first may seem indefinite and abstract, will suddenly take on a concrete and real appearance, and will facilitate a perception that is gradually distant from the initial one: a disruptive flow in which fragments of perspectives come one after the other, to stimulate and surprise the eye of the audience.
The invitation of the performance is therefore reiterated: we choose how to construct opinions about the events of our lives and the world.
POSSIBLE VERSIONS
● Standard show with video projections behind the performer and audience in front of the stage
● Very long immersive performance with video projections on every wall of the room (drums in the middle). The audience can enter and leave the room freely; 1 minute of silence and total darkness, 1 minute of music and video projections, in a continuous loop for up to 4 hours
● Performance with video projections on every wall of the room (drums in the middle) and surround sound system. The audience (all around the drums) is inside from beginning to end. Maximum duration 50 minutes.