Enaction#2

Directed by Carlotta Piccinini

In Enaction#2, a material form, a plasma is producing its own world through the perception of the movements of its own mass within an environment.
The material form in created using The PLASMAPROMETEO, a plasma generator of Borealis Aurora (project carried out in collaboration with the Dept. of Physics, University of Milan – Bicocca – Italy). The element that relates the material form and the environment is light. Matter questions the environment by specifying it both as an emitter space/receiver of light as sound. The enactive approach is represented visually through the connections between sensory and motor systems of the two co-agents: material form and light with all their mutation forms (deflection, refraction, speed variation and chromatic induction).

In second part of the Enaction Trilogy, dedicated to the light, the sound insists on the pulsation and the intimate rhythm of the luminous phenomena which can be both perceptible (wavelike–percussive and tonal sound) or non perceptible (the sound is perceived as continuous).
Music articulates the different declinations of the luminous phenomenon as they are seen in the visuals, yet differently from the first episode of the trilogy, music here is built mainly with sounds generated by analogical synthesis.
The sampled sounds instead, are used to fuel tensions and perturbations to disrupt the rhythmical and harmonic stability of the pulsation.