Ruta Remake
sign system, notation, amplifier, surround system, light system, theramidi / Kunstlerhaus Stuttgart / 2002
The „Ruta Remake” project focuses on the voice / vox, beginning with updating the original Thereminvox by a ‘Theramidi’ device. This device is designed for a user’s hand to mediate between sets of acoustic samples by using two light-sensitive resistors linked through a midi-interface. The hand’s movement within light casts shadows, and these, which register output and representation, according the logic of an inverted film. The hands re-collect the absence of voices, shaping/creating in a such a way that the hand becomes both a mapping and a notation device. Thus the new theramidi based navigation approaches the user as a performer who charts through the sound archive of voices in a real time weaving of the dialogue lines into determined patterns that compose a sound fabric.
Pianist Guoda Gedvilaite performing Ruta Remake at Kunstlerhaus Stuttgart, 2002. Guoda Gedvilaite is a profesor at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Frankfurt am Main.
