Foregrounding the Emergent Practise of Light informing Sound

Performances
8 - 10th December 2005 - 7 pm
Kenneth Myers Centre

Seminar
10th December - 2pm
Auckland Art Gallery Auditorium

Screenings
11th December - 6pm
Odeon Lounge

TransAcoustic is a Festival where the centuries old desire to fuse together sensory impressions is being given an experimental platform.

Seeking to underline the acoustic perspective in a predominately visual culture, the Festival offers an inspiring synaesthetic experience to the public with seminars, performances and screenings.

Visuals generated to sound is now common practise, however TransAcoustic Festival will be exploring the unique interface that results from the transformation of image or optical information into sound.

Ranging from the challenging to the playful, TransAcoustic features a unique array of tiny robots, light puppetry, spectrographic kaleidoscopes, 16 mm film and static.

TransAcoustic showcases innovative Australian digital media artists Botborg, Abject Leader and Robin Fox accompanied by NZ‚s established and outstanding artists.

Fresh from a European tour, Robin Fox is one of Australia‚s most interesting experimental music exports. His work covers the live performance of electro acoustic music, the symbiosis of sound and light phenomena and the real-time processing of instrumental and other electronic sources.

Abject Leader perform expanded cinema pieces for multiple 16mm projectors, handmade film, feedback systems, incongruous foley noise, sprockets and flicker, trumpet, and cardboard boxes!

Botborg fuse sound and vision into a self-perpetuating synaesthesia of colour & rhythm, generated (in real time) entirely by device feedback through electronic circuits & the performance space.

Moving rapidly into the new millennium, TransAcoustic is a timely opportunity to consider new ways of using our ears to reconsider the experiences usually intended for our eyes.
More information on these outstanding sound and light projects and artists involved can be found at:
http://www.transacoustic.org.nz

or contact info@transacoustic.org.nz for more details

THANKS TO CREATIVE NEW ZEALAND, THE COLUMBARD AND TIGER BEER.