Tagtool

“Konfrontationen” is a project by the Austrian cultural club “Conto Musicale” which aims to get young people of different educational backgrounds in touch with experimental music.

This was achieved with the help of musicians who developed a variety of improvisational performances with school groups all over Styria. Interaction with other art forms was promoted by including dancers and visual artists to integrate movements, pictures, sculptures or videos. The performances were presented at the beautiful venue “Dom in Berg” in the center of Graz on 9th of March 2010.

Wolfgang Hattinger and Daniel Riegler (both composers and musicians) were in charge of one of these groups and invited me to support them with Tagtool visuals. Their project is based on Virtual Conductor II, a software that orchestrates musicians to perform an improvisational show. For every artist there is a monitor that provides the basic guidelines according to a predefined but loose structure.

So my job was to coach two Tagtool teams, and help them develop a visualization concept to the music. We knew about the basic structure of the performance, so we worked out a repertoire of suitable drawing and animation styles, and learned how to deal with mistakes.

After two days of workshops and a final rehearsal we were ready for the show. The group did well and the audience was delighted. I was really impressed with their confident performance in front of around 150 people.

So, a big thank you and congratulations to my group, I enjoyed working with you!!

To the photo gallery!