Modern Tango World N° 9 (Rome, Italy) | Page 35

A Visual Dancing Andreas Lange (tr. Ruth Emanuel) t photo by Reiner Akermann What is the underlying motivation when we dance to music? Are we experiencing a sense of motion only by hearing the music, motions that we only feel but do not execute with our body? Are there other possibilities to express those sensations than moving our body? These are the questions that interest me as a photo, video and conceptual artist. Some time ago, Volker Marschhausen, organizer of Tanguerilla and the annual NeoTangoRave in Bremen, asked me to do some visuals to accompany the Neo- TangoRave. At the beginning of 2015, I gotten around to reviewing some old photos and video works for a per- formance. Additionally, I incorporated some new works, taking photos of reality that I then later abstracted. At first, I displayed these pictures using the free VLC Media Player. This program different formats to be played. and has some settings like speed, colour and simple effects. If onky a couple of slides and videos are to be displayed, this program will do the job. I used for my first performance as a VJ at the NeoTangoRave 2015. See: http://www.vlc.de/ But, I wanted to express my own perception of the music in the visuals. Therefore, from 2015 on, I switched to us- ing Resolume Arena, a professional program for live visual performance. This program allows different material to be mixed in real time, modifying or animating it with ef- fects that can be altered with the help of midi controllers. At present, I am using nanoKONTROL 2 from Korg and Launch Control XL from Novation as midi controllers. See: http://www.resolume.com/ At first I had generated compositions for Resolume Are- na especially for specific visuals. That way the functions of the compositions were clearly laid out. The downside was that when changing to another composition there was no output signal. This meant that I needed a second video source or an appealing background picture. — 35 — photo by Reiner Akermann TO SUBSCRIBE, CLICK HERE