(Un)real-time

Alon Ilsar, and Ciaran Frame

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

Abstract

(Un)real-time is a gestural performance for video telling the story through sound and movement of our past, present, and future relationship with technology. Paying homage to early sonic innovations such as the gramophone, the transistor radio, Morse code, the Theremin, the turntable, and the MPC, the piece investigates the line between listening and playing, between percussion and dancing, and between technology and magic. Composed through gesture and utilising historical recordings, (un)real-time is a provocation. What is real and what is unreal? When is unreal a compliment? When is real uninteresting? And what is a real-time ‘recording’? This video piece is a collaboration between a co-composer/ sound designer , and a percussionist/ instrument designer who plays, dances, gestures and listens with (un)real instruments, (un)real technology and (un)real music-making – all in (un)real-time.

Citation

Alon Ilsar, and Ciaran Frame. 2022. (Un)real-time. Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. DOI: 10.21428/92fbeb44.6545a238 [PDF]

BibTeX Entry

@inproceedings{nime2022_music_4,
 abstract = {(Un)real-time is a gestural performance for video telling the story through sound and movement of our past, present, and future relationship with technology.  Paying homage to early sonic innovations such as the gramophone, the transistor radio, Morse code, the Theremin, the turntable, and the MPC, the piece investigates the line between listening and playing, between percussion and dancing, and between technology and magic.  Composed through gesture and utilising historical recordings, (un)real-time is a provocation. What is real and what is unreal? When is unreal a compliment? When is real uninteresting? And what is a real-time ‘recording’? This video piece is a collaboration between a co-composer/ sound designer , and a percussionist/ instrument designer who plays, dances, gestures and listens with (un)real instruments, (un)real technology and (un)real music-making – all in (un)real-time.},
 address = {Auckland, New Zealand},
 articleno = {4},
 author = {Alon Ilsar and Ciaran Frame},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
 doi = {10.21428/92fbeb44.6545a238},
 editor = {Raul Masu},
 issn = {2220-4806},
 month = {jun},
 title = {(Un)real-time},
 track = {Music},
 url = {https://doi.org/10.21428/92fbeb44.6545a238},
 year = {2022}
}