hammerhaus

excerpts from a performance by HAMMERHAUS (Hanfreich and Theinert) at "Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart" in November 2006.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUHN6g6qz1o

http://www.theinert-lichtkunst.de/klt_eng_start.html

The visual piano is an instrument which makes it possible to create moving images in a space. It is unique and was conceived and developed by the photographer and light installation artist Kurt Laurenz Theinert in collaboration with the software designers Roland Blach and Philip Rahlenbeck.

Using a MIDI-keyboard it is possible to generate varying graphic patterns which can be digitally projected onto one or more screens. These dynamic and immediate drawings in light are not (as with VJ soft-and Hardware) generated by pre-recorded clips, but every moment of the performance is being played and modulated live and in real time via the keyboard and pedals.

Initially Theinert projected his drawings in light straight onto one screen; the expansion of the projection into 360° allows him to expand the visual experience of the audience into three dimensions. The intensified visual experience is astonishing: The defining edges of the darkened space are replaced by big, moving structures of light and the viewer gets immersed in a totally new cosmos of moving lines and fields of colour.

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Hammerhaus is currently showing in Sydney as part of the Smartlight festival

http://printaustralia.blogspot.com/2009/05/smart-light-sydney.html