Daniele Ghisi: An Experiment With Time

“An Experiment With Time” (AEWT) is a project involving the creation of a piece for video and electronics, and culminating in a “live” version of it, for amplified ensemble, video and electronics.

The project is inspired by the book “An Experiment with Time”, by John William Dunne: linearity of time is a collateral event of consciousness, whereas, inside dreams, past and future coexist.

The video setup is made of three juxtaposed screens. The central screen represents the writing of the main character’s diary, and will be a journey across its reflexions and thoughts, spanning one full year, and looping seamlessly at the end. The other screens (only active in some specific sections of the video) suggest the presence of two “aliases” experiencing different temporalities (the left one looping through a single day, and the right one living a complete life).

The development of the project will also be made transparent in a blog, where ideas, scenarios, scripts, sketches, video drafts, audio extracts or images, are shared.

Daniele Ghisi prepared following video-trailer for his project:

Project Tour Calendar

June 2nd + 3rd 2015, Maison de la Poésie, IRCAM ManiFeste-2015, Paris (FR) – installation/ video and electronics
17h30 – 19h15

September 13th – 18th 2015, Progetti Arte Contemporanea, Piazza delle Murate, Florence (IT), FLAME festival –
installation/ video and electronics

September 18th 2015, KLAPEIDA Concert Hall – Klapeida (LT) –
installation/ video and electronics

December 12th + 13th 2015, Teatro Litta, Corso Magenta – Milano (IT) –
installation/ video and electronics:
12th December : opening at 17h00.  Showings at 18h00, 18h45, 19h30, 20h15, 21h00, 21h45.
13th December : showings at 11h00, 11h45 12h30, 13h15, 14h00, 1445, 15h30, 16h15, 17h00

January 26th 2016, Teatro Litta, Corso Magenta – Milano (IT) –
20h30 – live version/ video and electronics + Divertimento Ensemble – World Premiere

March 5th 2016, Centre Pompidou – Paris (FR) –
20h30 – live version/ video and electronics + Divertimento Ensemble – French Premiere

March 10th – 14th 2016, Warehouse, London Ear Festival – London (UK) –
live version/ video and electronics – Divertimento Ensemble

Artistic credits:

Daniele Ghisi, composition, video, computer-music design

Divertimento Ensemble

Yann Philippe, IRCAM video manager
Sylvain Cadars, IRCAM sound engineer

Commission:

Divertimento Ensemble and Ircam-Centre Pompidou

Coproduction:

IRCAM-Centre Pompidou, Paris, France / Divertimento Ensemble, Milano, Italy (live version)

Coréalisation Maison de la Poésie, Paris, France