Concerts are usually experienced in the masses but even in the largest of crowds, every audience member has a unique experience– the true beauty behind live music. In their second project together, musician Edisonnoside and visual artist Daniel Schwartz have clashed music and light projection together to recreate the concert experience in Imposition. What began as an experimental short film, VANISH, based in the idea of creating a real-time art experience dictated by live music and visuals made out of mundane objects, has come full-scale complete with a DJ set accompanied by projected light panels to visualize it all.
Part concert, part art gallery, this 40-minute audiovisual experience translates the ever-growing connection between music and imagery in a live setting. Edisonnoside’s dark electronic beats guide and inspire the mapped projections on each rod, visualizing how each medium plays off one another. The artists moved past a traditional rectangular screen and used a 3D layout in order to play with “the perception of the audience.” Various rods are placed on the stage creating a matrix of images while simultaneously highlighting the relationship between reality and space. With hopes of creating an evolving performance, Imposition allows for the number of rods to increase or decrease depending on the size of a venue.
Projection is becoming more of a staple in the live music scene for its ability to reimagine settings that otherwise wouldn’t be possible. In doing so, the audience is immersed in an environment that goes beyond watching musicians play and becomes part of the experience. It’s not about the technology behind it but rather the opportunity to move simple ideas forward. Whether audiences are viewing and mentally processing the experience (as in this case) or literally surrounded by it, the evolution of live music is moving past a passive experience to an active one. When it comes down it, the artists believe the performance lets audiences “escape for 40 minutes from the normal reality, and try to go in a fake but different dimension.”
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