On 30 January at 7:00 PM, we invite you to a special evening of performances featuring five international artists from Chile, South Africa, France, Italy, and Finland. As part of their Nordic tour, three expanded-cinema artists—Étienne Caire (FR), Andrea Saggiomo (IT), and Marek Pluciennik (FI)—will present their work and also lead a creative workshop at Baltic Analog Lab. In addition, musicians Natalia Rivera Riffo (CL) and Rheece van der Linde (SA), artists-in-residence of the joint Baltic Analog Lab and Skaņu Mežs festival residency programme, will perform sound works created during their residency in collaboration with Erica Synths.
The event will feature three expanded-cinema performances in which 16mm and 35mm film projectors serve not only as tools for image projection, but also as live, improvised instruments of sound and light, dissolving the boundaries between experimental cinema and live performance. The audience will experience RioJim’s chemically generated visual landscapes using 16mm projector, Pluciennik’s hand-operated 35mm projections, and Saggiomo’s audiovisual concert, in which sound is generated by self-built, light-sensitive circuits.
Meanwhile, two musicians in residence will perform works created during the residency:
Natalia Rivera Riffo (
@nato.rivera.riffo during her residency has been working site-specifically at Lake Baltezers using a hydrophone, an omnidirectional microphone, and a piezo microphone. She then develops compositions from these field recordings, exploring textures with the “erratic” notes of the synthesizer. At the presentation she will perform a sound ritual evolved from these compositions.
Rheece van der Linde during her time at BAL has concentrated on experimental composition and sound design. She has sampled sounds from the modular gear at BAL and applied various generative techniques in Ableton to manipulate those recordings. This process is culminating in a live performance featuring ten original songs that she created during her time here.
The event will take place in the BAL residency, Lienes iela 19a.
Event language: English.
Entry fee: 5 EUR (cash only).
The Baltic Analog Lab Residency is supported by
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