As multimedia composer
Arrels is a suite for cello, voice, animation, fixed media, live electronics & live subtitles premiered in Hamburg 2022.
An immersive circular set up with 40 tablets doing spatial audio coordinated with octophonic on the room, lights and slow frame animation, as if I drawed for each of the audience.
A poetic intime war suite where surviving is based on communication and collectivity.
Arrels team:
Director, composer and performer : Carmen Kleykens Vidal
Light designer and technical team: Victor Ernesto Gutierrez Cuiza
Network and technical team: Alicia Reyes
Network and technical team: Lucas Xerxes
Costume design: Loïs Heckendorn
Co-Regie: Viola Mignon Bierich
Dichotomia Tactus is a collaborative project developed by multimedia composer and performer Carmen Kleykens Vidal and the contemporary pianist and researcher Carolina Santiago.
It consists of a series of compositions for piano and multimedia to resignify the pianist's gesture.
Through different setups and softwares as the Light Wall System (LiSiLoG), sensors and electronic sound, the artists create a concert programme based on deconstructing the musical gesture in the piano.
Dichotomia Tactus reflects on the relationship between listening and touch and the dichotomy between these senses. It is manifested through a game of dualities: light vs darkness, visible/invisible, audible/inaudible, corporeal and ethereal.
What exactly are we listening when we see a pianist?
To what extent we adjust our perception to a preconception of the reality?
Concert programme
Evasión del tacto
For piano, Light Wall System and fixed media
Evocación del tacto (WIP)
For piano, sensors, fixed media, lights and video
Impromptu #01
For piano, live electronics and live 3D piano model video
T1TGA (The 1 that got Away) - WIP;
for performer, MoCap system, 3D Environment & 3D Audio
Will be premiered on 18th February in Hamburg.
Work in progress from TXTGA project,
Concept, Composer & Cello : Carmen Kleykens Vidal
Text: Juan Ramón Jiménez [From his book “Eternidades”]
Translation: Raquel Subero
MoCaP supervisor: Jacob Sello
Unreal supervisors: Jan Wegmann & Konstantina Orlandatou
Technical assistance: Victor Ernesto Gutierrez Cuiza
Performance: Carmen Kleykens Vidal
Documentation: Bayaru Takshina