Collaborative sound performance created using a mobile phone and a Kaoss Pad
effects processor.
The audience is invited to use their own phones as microphones and contribute
their voice real-time to the installation dialing a special number. Their
sound might get looped, sampled, distorted, or played live just once.
In Macrophone both the audience and the performer become part of a feedback loop,
where the content is created by the audience and the structure (and speed) is
controlled by the performer. What will become of the sound? How will the "actual" live voices interact with the "virtual" sampled copies?
Will there be a point when the seemingly open structure will
close down "satisfied" with just replicating itself?
Previous Work:
Music video for "Fucking Bitch, Fucking Slut" EP shown at Berlin Porn Festival
24 & 25 October 2008 (18.30 and 16.30)
visual concept by ReveRso, beatbox & lyrics by Dee Mee Tree –
Origins...
In Greek mythology Demeter ("distribution-mother") is the goddess of grain and fertility,
the pure nourisher of the youth and the green earth, the health-giving
cycle
of life and death, and preserver of marriage and the sacred law. She is
invoked as the "bringer of seasons" in the Homeric hymn, a subtle
sign that she was worshipped long before she was made one of the Olympians.
She and her daughter Persephone were the central figures of the Eleusinian
Mysteries that also predated the Olympian pantheon.
Her Roman equivalent is Ceres, from whom the word "cereal" is
derived
Biography...
Dee Mee Tree (Dmitry Paranyushkin), originally from Russia, moved to Berlin two
years ago attracted by the special creative atmosphere in the city, which has
been
inspiring
artists since the twenties and was famously nicknamed "Berliner Luft". Using his previous background in theater, music, and expressionist butoh dance,
he created a solid body of work, spanning from electro beatbox extravaganza
to trashy burlesque performances.
While the psychedelic fumes in the "air" of the reckless city were feeding his creative side, Dee Mee Tree has also been
rigorously researching schizophrenic internet browsing patterns, cybernetics,
and neural networks. His recent projects merge all these influences into
a purposefully incoherent and volatile whole. Think of it as Psychic TV
combined with contemporary dance, Stanislavsky system, and Russian futurism
– all Googled live by an ADD patient.
Dee Mee Tree's latest projects include a collaborative internet guide to
similar things – http://thisislike.com and his new piece "I did this for you to like me" to be premiered at Act Art festival. .
dee at deemeetree point com
+49 15 777 8650 77 (sms only)