TIME FREEZE HELIX BY MICHELA PELUSIO & VANCE GALLOWAY

TIME FREEZE HELIX BY MICHELA PELUSIO & VANCE GALLOWAY

Abstract: TIME FREEZE HELIX
PERFORMANCE/concert by Michela Pelusio & Vance Galloway

 

PERFORMANCE online Premier of SpaceTime Helix

TIME FREEZE HELIX is a joint performance with a real-time opto-acoustic instrument “SpaceTime Helix” invented by Michela Pelusio in 2012 and real-time processed guitar strings by Vance Galloway.

SpaceTime Helix is ​​an audiovisual Kinetic show featuring a giant wave that rotates on a white rope, forming a large helicoid up to the ceiling. The surface of the helix is ​​shiny and transparent, with waves passing through it and disappearing into the future, ever more distant in space-time. With this work, I wanted to explore helical symmetries and infinity, frequencies and geometry, elementary particles and quantum physics, sonic visions and perceptions. SpaceTime Helix performance is like a game with physics and elementary particles. In my work, I often play with physical and natural phenomena that stimulate the observation and perception of our interior and exterior space. The standing wave, a resonance in a string, is everywhere in nature in ancient science and in modern science. 2,500 years ago, Pythagoras invented the musical frequency scale and predicted that the stars and planets move as if in a harmonic oscillation. He called it “Harmony of the spheres”. Quantum mechanics is a theory from about 100 years ago, and in quantum mechanics, standing waves are the energy levels of particles. String theory is a very recent theory from the 1970s, also called 'the theory of everything'. In string theory, the particles themselves are just vibrations in little multidimensional strings. Each harmonic of the string is another type of particle. Therefore, standing waves and vibrating strings are really fundamental to our understanding of the world and the universe. Mutek Montreal wrote the following about SpaceTime Helix: “Quantum physics meets audiovisual experimentation in Michela's performances and installations: interactive creations that combine space, light, matter and sound in malleable immersive environments…

http://www.mutek.org/en/montreal/2017/artists/9224-michela-pelusio-glenn-verv liet

 

Author: Michela Pelusio & Vance Galloway

 

 

 

 

 

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