Matthias Kispert » Sound Design

Pins and Needles

mkispert — Sat, 28 Dec 2013 10:31:20 +0000

Designer Bart Hess and filmmaker Ruth Hogben joined forces for their contribution to SHOWstudio’s Punk film season.

Inspired by punk’s association with metal adornments Hess built a garment entirely from studs, pins and chains. Hundreds of magnets were glued on to dancer Eric Underwood, attracting over 80 kilograms of steel bits like instant metal embroidery. Hogben captured the creative process and used the footage to create Pins and Needles.

→Bart Hess

Digital Artefacts

mkispert — Sat, 28 Sep 2013 10:46:53 +0000

From this context of surveillance, facial recognition, avatars and virtual ghosts, we imagine a near future where digital static, distortions and glitches become a new form of ornament. Shimmering in the exhibition landscape is a network of geometric reflective pools of molten wax. Their mirrored surface is broken by c Slowly the body emerges, encased in a dripping wet readymade prosthetic. It is a physical glitch, a manifestation of corrupt data in motion, a digital artefact. They hang from hooks like a collection of strange beasts and frozen avatars. Body prints, imperfect and distorted and always utterly unique.

Commissioned by POSTmatter and shown as a performance installation at Lisbon Architecture Triennale 2013.

→Bart Hess

Pushing Boundaries

mkispert — Sat, 28 Sep 2013 10:16:50 +0000

Laid across the physical city is a virtual doppelganger, a ghost landscape of hyperlinks, geo tags, digital maps and satellite scans. The air is thick, charged with bits, bytes, electrons and energy fields. A network of tracking cameras follows us as we wander across this data city, our gestures and movements, translated and then beamed as dynamic forms of light that animate around us. Like flamboyant conductors, the audience interacts with an array of high powered projectors that give life to a luminous terrain of mountains, clouds and particles. By employing directional audio technology, a synthetic soundscape feels almost real, conjuring a visceral experience of a world currently hidden in screens, circuits and hardware. Follow paths of sound, listen for the edge of a surface, see it shimmer, and drift right through, like a rock falling in the sea. Shown at Lisbon Architecture Triennale 2013

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Mutants

mkispert — Wed, 28 Aug 2013 10:23:08 +0000

Shiny latex and an endless grid of tubes transform the human into a mutant. The Mutant embodies the everchanging boundaries between the digital and physical world.
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Now That You’ve Died

mkispert — Sun, 28 Jul 2013 11:15:07 +0000

Now That You’ve Died invites guests to question their expectations of story-telling whilst experiencing a unique sensory experience without using their vision. The use of sound to create an immersive narrative ensures that the performance is genuinely inclusive and enlightening.

From an exclusive story written by double Carnegie Medal winning author Patrick Ness. “Now That You’ve Died” has been narrated by actor Christopher Eccleston (Doctor Who, Thor: The Dark World), co-directed by duo Hector Harkness (Punchdrunk) and Kate Hargreaves (Gideon Reeling) and produced by Colin Nightingale (Punchdrunk and Gideon Reeling), bought together by creative agency Guided Collective.
Now That You’ve Died has been commissioned by RNIB for Read for RNIB Day.

→Review in The Huffington Post “The use of sound in this production was superb.”

Soundform

mkispert — Sat, 08 Jun 2013 11:01:34 +0000

Soundform is an exploration into the relationship between sound and 3 dimensional shape through the medium of laser. The piece exists as both a 20 minute performance and an installation.

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Matter

mkispert — Sun, 15 Jul 2012 15:00:01 +0000

Matter is a time-based digital sculpture; a celebration of matter itself, the substance of all physical things. It describes a continuous dynamic articulation of a solid, pure block of matter, from the simplest primitive forms to the highest details of geometric complexities, and vice versa… from the unpredictable grace of geological processes to the perfection, beauty and precision of man made crafts.
The subject of this piece is Rodin’s sculpture Le Penseur (The Thinker), a masterpiece born as the avant-garde that has since become a universal classical icon, and now considered the bridge from classical to modern sculpture.
Commissioned by Audemars Piguet.

Forms

mkispert — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 23:18:19 +0000

Forms is a series of studies on human motion, and its reverberations through space and time. It is inspired by the works of Eadweard Muybridge, Harold Edgerton, Étienne-Jules Marey as well as similarly inspired modernist cubist works such as Marcel Duchamp’s “Nude Descending a Staircase No.2″. Rather than focusing on observable trajectories, it explores techniques of extrapolation to sculpt abstract forms, visualizing unseen relationships – power, balance, grace and conflict – between the body and its surroundings.

The project investigates athletes; pushing their bodies to their extreme capabilities, their movements shaped by an evolutionary process targeting a winning performance. Traditionally a form of entertainment in todays society with an overpowering competitive edge, the disciplines are deconstructed and interrogated from an exclusively mechanical and aesthetic point of view; concentrating on the invisible forces generated by and influencing the movement.

The source for the study is footage from the Commonwealth Games. The process of transformation from live footage to abstract forms is exposed as part of the interactive multi-screen artwork, to provide insight into the evolution of the specially crafted world in which the athletes were placed.
Forms was awarded the Golden Nica for Computer Animation at Prix Ars Electronica 2013.

→Quayola
→Memo Akten

In the Blink of an Eye

National Media Museum, Bradford, UK

9 Mar – 2 Sep 2012

Strata #4

mkispert — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 22:34:38 +0000

Strata #4 is a multi-channel immersive video-installation commissioned by Palais de Beaux Arts in Lille. The subject of this work is a series of iconic pieces from the museum’s Flemish collection, focusing specifically on Rubens’ and Van Dyck’s grand altarpieces.

Strata #4 is the result of a study and exploration of the paintings themselves, delving beneath their figurative appearance and looking at the very rules behind the composition, colour schemes and proportions of each piece. It is a precise process aimed at creating new contemporary images based on universal rules of beauty and perfection. Documenting the improbable collisions between classical figuration and contemporary abstraction, Strata #4 aims to create an harmonious dialogue between worlds that may appear very distant from one another, but in fact share so much in common.

→Quayola

Quayola Solo Exhibition	Young Projects, Los Angeles, USA	19 Mar – 8 May 2012
Creators Project	Fort Mason, San Francisco, USA	16 – 18 Mar 2012
Pulse Art Fair	Miami, USA	1 – 4 Dec 2011
Digitalife	Ex Gil, Rome, Italy	25 Oct – 11 Dec 2011
Creators Project	Dumbo Art Center, New York, USA	15 – 16 Oct 2011
Palais des Beaux Arts	Lille, France	7 – 9 Oct 2011

Rien a Cacher Rien a Craindre

mkispert — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 22:19:21 +0000

As the first artists in residence at La Gaîté Lyrique in Paris, UVA created Rien a Cacher / Rien a Craindre, a series of responsive light and sound installations that together seduced and unsettled visitors in a unique way.

Exploring the unexamined assumption that digital technology is moving us towards utopia, UVA created a visitor experience simultaneously celebrating and critiquing the brave new world of the digital.

More than 14.000 people saw the installation over six days from 1-6 March 2011.

→United Visual Artists
→La Gaîté Lyrique

La Gaîté Lyrique

Paris, France

1-6 Mar 2011