triptych

Voltage induced sound and images in elevation

Performance Video Composition

Performance: Sydney, Australia 2012

Composition: Mark Cauvin

Actor/Reader: Caroline Lee reading her own publication "Stripped"
Double Basses/Actions: Mark Cauvin
Photographer: Daisy Noyes

Cameraman/Location Manager: Chris Reynolds
Cameraman/Editor: Darrin Hanley
Sound Technician/Electronic Music: Mark Cauvin
Double Bass construction: Graham Mandelson

The performance of Triptych will be in three large buildings, in these buildings are three artists who individually travel between floors in the elevators whilst reading a novel, performing on three double basses and capturing images using a photographic equipment.

In musical terms, bar lines are equivalent to floors within the building, tempo is equivalent to elevator hoist speed and distance to be travelled, dynamics will increase and decrease in relation to upward/downward motion, timbre will be variable according to the artists interpretation of the fixed parameters and their intuition while reading a novel, performing on three double basses instrument and taking photographs.

Artists will be videoed and recorded inside each elevator while performing. After 33 minutes the performance ends, the video is collected from the three elevators and spliced together to produce a three-panel Triptych video.

This phase of Triptych involves extensive video editing and audio manipulation techniques of the original video and audio material and will add a parallel dimension to the original performances while ornamenting and colouring the sounds and visuals performed and recorded by the artists. The pictures taken, sounds produced and excerpts of text will be layered and edited, resulting in a three part collage of spoken word, three double basses and sounds of a camera.

Triptych the performance will become a complete video art composition. The final video will be presented as an installation video composition in the form of a Triptych using three large scale monitors standing side by side.

Triptych will be exhibited as a video art composition in festivals and gallery spaces within Australia and overseas.