January 24 // 26 2013
Centro Nacional de las Artes, Ciudad de México, Mexico
- January 24 // 26 2013 | Centro Nacional de las Artes, Ciudad de México, Mexico
Festival
The project started in Berlin on February of the year 2010. Pammela and Rafael wanted to take their performance to a completely new level, to make something original and authentic. They worked hard, and upon their return to their hometown, Mexico City, they had composed already three pieces and the performance part was starting to take shape. The music of the project is microtonal, so they decided to call the project "Microtonal Audiovisual".
Pammela Rojas usually produces her own photographic and video material from a wide spectrum of sources, ranging from a piece of fabric, to extreme closeups, panoramic photography and even sea creatures. She focuses on creating the best possible capture, to avoid excessive post treatment, hence effects. Pammela prefers to preserve the natural and organic elements of the footage and focuses her creativity in the edition and composition.
Rafael Marfil makes use of his own microtonal tuning, RM18, the one divides the octave in 18 equal parts and has its lowest frequency at 9 Hz. On the first piece of this project he used an emulation and samples of well known drum machines. At present time he avoids using non original material the kind of samples and drum machines. He takes care of every single aspect of the sound design, meaning that every sound is his own creation, starting from simple mathematical functions.
Due to the compositional nature of these works, Pammela Rojas & Rafael Marfil do not interpret these pieces in their live performances, as they prefer an improvisational approach.
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Pammela Rojas:
visual improvisation
Quartz Composer (human body reproduction)
Korg nanoKONTROL (control surface)
Novation Launchpad (control surface)
Rafael Marfil:
microtonal music and sound design improvisation
Logic Pro (multitimbral sound generator and MIDI looper)
Novation Launchpad (control surface)
Korg nanoKONTROL (control surface)
Pammela Rojas usually produces her own photographic and video material from a wide spectrum of sources, ranging from a piece of fabric, to extreme closeups, panoramic photography and even sea creatures. She focuses on creating the best possible capture, to avoid excessive post treatment, hence effects. Pammela prefers to preserve the natural and organic elements of the footage and focuses her creativity in the edition and composition.
Rafael Marfil makes use of his own microtonal tuning, RM18, the one divides the octave in 18 equal parts and has its lowest frequency at 9 Hz. On the first piece of this project he used an emulation and samples of well known drum machines. At present time he avoids using non original material the kind of samples and drum machines. He takes care of every single aspect of the sound design, meaning that every sound is his own creation, starting from simple mathematical functions.
Due to the compositional nature of these works, Pammela Rojas & Rafael Marfil do not interpret these pieces in their live performances, as they prefer an improvisational approach.
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Pammela Rojas:
visual improvisation
Quartz Composer (human body reproduction)
Korg nanoKONTROL (control surface)
Novation Launchpad (control surface)
Rafael Marfil:
microtonal music and sound design improvisation
Logic Pro (multitimbral sound generator and MIDI looper)
Novation Launchpad (control surface)
Korg nanoKONTROL (control surface)
Duration (minutes)
30
What is needed
*Video*
projection screen or LED screen placed behind the per- formers (with a minimal size of
4.5X4.5 m)
VGA projector that provides sufficient luminosity under the lighting
conditions at the time of the performance (in case of projection screen)
VGA video monitor with an approximate screen size of 10”
*PA*
stereo PA that assort well with the room size
*Monitoring*
two identical stereo monitoring systems
*Mixing Desk*
an analogue mixing desk with two available channels, enough outputs for the
PA and monitoring systems and at least three bands of EQ per channel (one
of them being parametric)
*Catering*
hot vegan food water, fruit juices or alcohol-free beer
Galleries (1)
Videos (2)
Micro-Boogie
00:06:33
mTonAV Live (excerpts)
00:01:42