SpaceTime Helix
real-time optoacoustic instrument by Michela Pelusio
SpaceTime Helix is an audiovisual performance with a giant spinning standing wave in a white string, forming a large helicoid up to the ceiling. The helix surface is bright and transparent, with waves running over it, disappearing into the future, more and more distant in space-time.
With this work, I wanted to explore helical symmetries and infinity, frequencies and geometry, elementary particles and quantum physics, sonic visions and perceptions. SpaceTime Helix's performance is like a play with elementary physics and particles. In my work, I often play with physical and natural phenomena which stimulate the observation and the perception of our inner and outer space.
The standing wave, a resonance in a string, is everywhere in nature in ancient science and in modern science. 2500 years ago Pythagoras invented the musical scale of frequencies and predicted that stars and planets move as in harmonic oscillation. He called it “Harmony of the Spheres”. Quantum mechanics is a theory from about 100 years ago, and in quantum mechanics, the standing waves are the energy levels of the particles. String theory is a very recent theory from the 1970s, also called 'the theory of everything'. In String theory particles themselves are just vibrations in small multidimensional strings. Every harmonic of the string is another type of particle. So standing waves and vibrating strings are really fundamental in our understanding of the world and the universe.
This work is a metaphor for the return to the root of things, and to the simplicity and the complexity of the macro and microcosmos, the internal and external space, the architecture of the mind and the architecture of nature. A natural phenomenon which is almost a miracle right in front of your eyes.
Mutek Montreal wrote the following about SpaceTime Helix: “Quantum physics meets audiovisual experimentation in Michela's performances and installations: interactive creations that bend space, light, matter, and sound into malleable immersive environments...
http://www.mutek.org/en/montreal/2017/artists/9224-michela-pelusio-glenn-vervliet
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Selected past performances:
• NEXT 2019: 20th Advanced Music Festival Bratislava November 2019
• Sonica for Cryptic Glasgow at Tramway United Kingdom, November 2019
INDEX - da arte e tecnologia at Theatro Circo in Braga, Portugal 24 October 2019
ELECTRONIK MAINTENANT at Les Champs Libres in Rennes, France 07 October 2019
MUSIKPROTOKOLL Festival & ORF at Dom im Berg in Graz, Austria 03 October 2019
OSLO NIGHT at HEK - Haus der elektronishen Kunste, Basel, Switzerland 21 September 2019
GAMMA Festival in Saint Pietersburg, Russia 10-15 July 2019
ISEA2019 & ACT Festival Gwangju South Korea 25 June 2019
Opening the European Inventors Award at Wien Stadhalle, Vienna, Austria 20 June 2019
Balance/Club/Culture Festival at UT Connewitz in Leipzig, Germany 1 June 2019
CHRONIQUES Biennale des Imaginaires Numeriques, at GMEM - Centre National de Création Musicale, inside Le Module, Marseille France 2018
Echos Numeriques at Le Chabada, Angers France 2018
MUTEKJP Tokyo, at WWW Shibuya, Japan 2018
MUTEKAE Dubai, Arab Emirates 2018
TODAYSART at Theater Het Spui in Den Haag, The Netherlands 2018
MAPPING Festival Geneva, Switzerland 2018
MUTEK San Francisco, at Herbst Theatre in SF, US 2018
L.E.V festival at Theater of the Laboral in Gijón, Spain 2018
ELECTRONS LIBRES at Stereolux Maxi Salle - Nantes, FR 2018
SPEKTRUM AV+ACT, Athens Greece, 2018
Mois Multi at Sala Multi de Medusa Quebec, Canada 2018
The Lowry Theatre Manchester UK 2018
Sparkling Sound Festival - Copenhagen, Denmark 2017
BAM Festival - Liege, Belgium 2017
Keroxen17 - Santa Cruz, Tenerife 2017
BOZAR Electronic Arts Festival Brussels, Belgium 2017
MUTEK Buenos Aires - Argentina 2017
MUTEK Montreal, Canada 2017
ArtBites Belgrade, Serbia 2017
MUTEK Barcelona - Spain 2017
Mutek Mexico Teatro de la Ciudad, Mexico City 2016
Octagonal Tower of Federico II - Enna Sicily, Italy 2016
OSA Open Source Art festival - Sopot, Poland 2015
ADAF Athens Digital Art Festival, Greece 2015
Fasma Festival Athens, Greece 2015
SpaceTime Helix at Embros Theater Athens, Greece 2015
Exhibition Lexus Hybrid Art Moscow, Russia 2014
TEDx Athens Greece 2014
Arteorema at Cinestudio Live Heraklion, Crete Greece 2014
Max Planck Institute of Astrophysics - Munchen, Germany 2013
CretAquarium Heraklion
