This video shows the teaser I produced and how it’s connected to the promotional postcard through Augmented Reality.
The Augmented Bodies Exhibition
Museum Boerhaave presents the work of four talented students of the master programm Lens-Based Digital Media at the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam. The students made a study of the different perceptions of the human body. This resulted in five portraits with themes like ‘the promised body’, ‘weighty body’ and the ‘constructed body’.
Each portrait has a double, virtual layer that can be accesed through a smartphone or tablet that runs Aurasma. Museum Boerhaave is the first museum in the Netherlands to bring an Augmented Reality exhibition to the Aurasma platform. It’s a visual experiment that confronts the visitor with the naked truth. The truth of the human body.
Teaser
To promote this small exhibition the museum produced promotional postcards that have an Augmented Reality layers themselves. That way the targeted audience can get an idea of what to expect and how it works technically.
My starting point was the printed card, a design by Studio brandendZant Rotterdam. I had to recreate the card as separate objects to be able to animate it.
Waxing Arcs video for Trapper
Video
The video shows several rusty crescents turning and grinding very slowly. It takes a while before you realize there’s movement at all. I wanted it to evolve slow to make it fit the drone that it accompanies.
Music
The music was performed by Trapper. Trapper is the name of a drone collective from The Hague. I’m one of its members. In music, a drone is a harmonic or monophonic effect or accompaniment where a note or chord is continuously sounded throughout most or all of a piece.
Inspiration
Both the music and the video were inspired by the sculpture “Waxing Arcs”. The monumental work ‘Waxing Arcs’ was created specially for Museum Boijmans van Neiningen in Rotterdam in 1980 by the American Minimalist artist Richard Serra. The freestanding steel walls are identical in form and length. This does not initially appear to be the case because one arc encloses a corner, whilst the other cuts into the space.
An unanticipated and fast produced track that I did with the enthusiastic help of Nisa Asokan (a.k.a. EMPremix). It’s a bit weird but I like it.
Check out the original field recording that sparked this little project here.
New website. And new cards.
Released today. The video I made for Antilounge 9: Neith’s Impressions. It’s the first time I did anything with character animation. The steepest learning curve I’ve ever had.
Video: Einzelgänger \ Music: Neith
This is an edited version of Neith’s Impression. Listen to the Antilounge 9 album for the full length version. © Marouane Issaoui/Thijs Geritz 2012
Here’s the 6th promo I made for Kernel Panic. It’s based on a graphic design by Wouter Blok for the printed flyer. You can watch more promo’s on the special channel.
“Urbanites” is made of original sound recordings all made in the center of the city of The Hague.
I like to use the term Acousmatic Painting for these kinds of tracks. In acousmatic works it’s not necessary to recognize the sound source. Some of the used material is used in its original and therefore recognizable form (church bells, kids, birds). Other material has been so heavily processed and cut up that it becomes abstract sound.
A feeling of vague longing.
Build around a dirty field recording of a saxophone player, Paris city sounds and samples of a prepared piano.
ZooBreed was produced for UrZoo, a game for iPhone by Fluffylogic. It’s scheduled to be released in June 2012.
I wrote and produced one of the tracks featured in the app.
In UrZoo players will be able to run their own zoo. This will not only include feeding and caring for a series of animals, from the common to the wild, but players will also be able to breed animals together, creating whole new species and combinations of animals.
For regular Ur Zoo updates: http://www.facebook.com/UrZoo
This track was created for a on-line video promotion by The Glenrothes. The video will can be found on their YouTube Channel.
The Glenrothes is a single malt Scotch whisky, produced at the Glenrothes Distillery, beside the Burn of Rothes in the Speyside region.
Third part of Saudade. This one is short for a drone and straightforward. And a little aggressive too.
Saudade is a Portuguese word which describes a deep emotional state of nostalgic longing for something that one was fond of and which is lost. It often carries a fatalist tone and a repressed knowledge that the object of longing might really never return.
Saudade 3 is part 53 in the Einzelganger podcast.
All three Saudades drones are also available as a free downloadable album on Bandcamp.
I’m part of drone orchestra Trapper that will perform its first real live set on the State-X New Forms Festival in The Hague on December 12th. For promotion we did a short 15 minute improv on the local radio Omroep West and Den Haag FM.
Trapper is: Wouter Blok (laptop), Jan Borchers (electronics), Thijs Geritz (VA synth), Jimi Hellinga (hurdy gurdy), Rob Kanters (cajon and bass) and Malou Osendarp (cello).
Visit the special Trapper Tumblr page for more info. And there is more info!
There is now a dedicated SoundCloud page for my collaborations with Tracie Stefansson: Traiskin+Einzelganger. Offers our first collab Alice: Longitude 180 and a new track called The Garden. Check it out!
Here’s an older one. Dora & Fannie is the main theme for a stageplay called ‘Welkom in het bos’ (Welcome in the woods) written by Alex van Warmerdam and performed by Cameleon.
I also did the graphic and stage design for this one.
Boerhaave AR
I produced 10 videos for an Augmented Reality Exhibition in Museum Boerhaave in Leiden. The videos can be accessed with a smartphone and the Aurasma app*.
This project explores and develops Augmented Reality for exhibition purposes: adding a second layer to a museum exhibition that, in this case, juxtaposes with the existing one.
It also raises the question: is a virtual space is a public space or does it belong to somebody. These video’s are placed within the museum. And apps like Aurasma make it possible for anybody to do the same. It’s street art… but in a non public spaces.
You can watch 6 of them in this special Vimeo Boerhaave AR channel.
But I invite you to come and visit Museum Boerhaave and discover all 10 video-objects. They’re really more fun when you see them on their own specific location.
All videos produced by Einzelgänger.
Project initiated by Bart Grob.
*) iPhone 3Gs, iPhone4, iPhone4s and iPad 2. The app is available for Android but we couldn’t test it yet.
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