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Visual Dancing
Andreas Lange
(tr. Ruth Emanuel)
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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
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