Utilizing their own custom software created with the innovative and controversial nato.0+55 programming environment, 242.pilots expressively improvise rich, layered video works in real-time: as soloists, in duet, and as a trio. The performance software created by Gilje, Ralske, and Lysakowski allows video to be controlled in a fluid and expressive manner. In group improvisation, the three artists respond and interact with each other with the intuitive subtlety found in the best free jazz ensembles. The end product is a complex visual conversation: a quasi-narrative exploring degrees of abstaction, mytho-poetic elements, the nature of the sign, synaesthesia, and raw retinal delight.
Some of their newer work also explores the uncharted territory of simultaneous audio/visual improvisation. Improvised audio might be used to generate video output, or improvised video might be used to generate audio. (Or, both control mechanisms might work simultaneously, in a feedback loop of control + controlling.)
____ 242.pilots --> http://music.columbia.edu/~kurt/grl.html
____ kurt ralske (us) --> http://www.miau-miau.com
____ hc gilje (norway) --> http://www.nervousvision.com
____ lukasz lysakowski (poland) --> http://wildlifeanalysis.org
This performance is organised with the collaboration of Nadine vzw and receives the support of the Municipality of Ixelles (Cultural Department), the Communauté française and the VGC