[Tekst dostępny tylko w języku angielskim] Lecture-Demonstration
The lecture presents the artistic and technical evolution of Volcanism through a selection of audiovisual works, performance excerpts, and live demonstrations. Rather than focusing on a single audiovisual methodology, the presentation explores how different approaches to sound, image, technology, and performance have emerged throughout the development of the project and its encounter with different musical genres and practices.
The lecture traces this evolution through three main stages.
1. Audiovisual DJ Sets: Dance Music and Real-Time Visuals
The first part introduces the early Volcanism performances, based on audiovisual DJ sets and electronic dance music. Through examples taken from the original performances, the lecture illustrates the relationship between musical structure, rhythmic organisation, video materials, editing, and real-time visual manipulation. Particular attention is given to the strategies used to establish correspondences between musical gestures and visual events within a live performance environment.
2. From Dance Music to Ambient: Instruments, Soundscapes and Audiovisual Environments
The second part explores the transformation of the project towards ambient and more contemplative forms of audiovisual composition. Electronic materials are combined with guitars, keyboards, field recordings, and environmental sounds, while the visual component develops towards the construction of audiovisual landscapes and immersive environments, progressively evolving towards a more narrative and symbolic dimension. Examples and demonstrations illustrate how layering, processing, temporal expansion, soundscape composition, and the interaction between recorded and performed materials contributed to this evolution.
3. Hybrid Audiovisual Performance: Fixed Media, Improvisation and Collaboration
The final part focuses on the current development of Volcanism as a hybrid and open performance environment, characterised by an increasing degree of interaction between audio and visual components. The audiovisual structure alternates fixed and pre-composed sections with improvisational sections, allowing each performance to develop differently according to its context and participants.
This approach also creates a framework for collaborations with singers, instrumentalists, and musicians from different musical traditions and genres, including, for example, Baroque and jazz musicians. The lecture demonstrates how fixed audiovisual materials, live electronics, instrumental performance, improvisation, and real-time visual processing can coexist within the same performance structure.
Throughout the presentation, audiovisual excerpts and practical demonstrations will illustrate the techniques adopted during the different stages of Volcanism’s artistic evolution, highlighting how technological tools have progressively become part of a flexible compositional system capable of moving across genres, performance practices, and different relationships between sound and image.
The lecture ultimately presents audiovisual practice not as a fixed genre, but as an evolving compositional and performative framework in which electronic music, instrumental performance, soundscape, visual composition, improvisation, and interdisciplinary collaboration can continuously interact and transform one another.
