WSK X: Festival of the Recently Possible Opening Concert
WSK concerts have always displayed the inclination towards redefining the limits of audiovisual performance. End of Frame, our special program this late October, will be segmented in a manner evoking the transformation of the moving image.
Exploring the material dimensions of 16mm film, and its infinite possibilities, Takashi Makino and Rei Hayama will present the collaborative result of a recently-concluded experimental film workshop they conducted. In collaboration with WSK founders Tengal and Joee Mejias, live improvisational music and performances will augment and interact with the projected filmic output producing a highly sensorial event featuring the interplay of light, motion, bodies, and electronics.
In addition, performing a new piece is one of Manila’s earliest and most trailblazing experimental media art groups: The Children of Cathode Ray. Established in 1989, three of the group’s original core members — Tad Ermitano, Magyar Tuazon, and Jing Garcia — will work on an arsenal of instruments for their piece. Typically this has a 4-second cassette-tape loops feeding into a mix filled with drums and electronic percussion, effected guitars, and more, augmented visually by video feedback, projections of exposed Super-8, abraded with a variety of kitchen implements, or VHS spliced on a pair of consumer VCRs.
Finally, Ken Furudate (Sine Wave Orchestra) will provide an audiovisual performance wholly generated through digital means. Deeply influenced by minimalist aesthetics, Furudate concentrates on the simplest elements, such as sine waves, pulses, dots, lines, and loop functions, and scales them up to states of overwhelming complexity, at times featuring smooth and transfixing moiré-fringed vortices and subtly-oscillating washes of spectral noise.
Catch the End of Frame Concert this October 24, from 8PM-10PM, at the Hyundai Hall, Soledad V. Pangilinan Arts Wing, Areté, Ateneo de Manila University.
WSK X is supported by 国際交流基金アジアセンター The Japan Foundation Asia Center under the Grant Program for Promotion of Cultural Collaboration.
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Photo by Takashi Makino, from “Still in Cosmos,” 2009.
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