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It has been my dream for a long time that people could watch instrumentalist play from really close. Unfortunately it's not practical to have people close while playing, so I started working on the idea to get the same closeness with the help of cameras. The first realisation of the idea was made for the "Faces" festival at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague for Juan Sebastian Lach Lau's pieces for solo doulbe bass. The pieces was written to be used with video and together with Antonia Fritche we worked out plans for the final live visual result. I bought three surveilance cameras that was rebuilt to fit on the bass with different attachment devises. Thanks to Robert Pravda and Nico! The cameras was placed: no1 on the head of the bass, no2 on the inside of the bridge, no3 on the inside of the bow and no4 by the music stand. Camera 1 films downwards along the strings, the players left hand and head/neck is important in the image. Camera 2 films outwards through the strings and covers most of the space where the bow touches the strings. The waves in the string becomes clear and any unevenness is revealed. Camera 3 films the bow hairs and the surroundings. The bowhairs are more or less still in the image and there are bif movements around. Camera 4 is mainly covering the piece of the performer that is hidden behind the music stand and is also giving a contrast to the other images because og the angle. The four imputs were put through a video mixer and presented on big screens one or two images at the time. The second performance was given in the GEM Museum of Photography in The Hague, also to Juan Sebastian's piece. Unfortunaltely the cameras showed lack of stability (they are after all not made to be carried around a lot) and we had to performe with three cameras only. I'm currently trying to figure out if web-cams would be more stabile and how I can make a camera set up for more players. It is important that all players have the same importance in the final mix of images. It is also a goal that the image presented is something the audience can not see from their position. |
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