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KET CONVERSATIONS

AUDIOVISUAL PERFORAMENCE W/ THOMAS BJERKEBORN

KET is one of the world’s oldest spoken languages. Through a song about life in Siberia sung on KET, we intend create a new musical language in the form of a audiovisual work. Our current artistic work is at the forefront of contemporary artistic-technical development and this project is conceived as a meeting between the oldest and the hypermodern. KET is Thomas Bjelkeborn, Sweden and Koray Tahiroğlu, Finland.

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P E R F O R M A N C E S
2018  Nordic Music Days, G-Live Lab Helsinki;   Fylkingen Stockholm, Sweden
2016  Metanast Salford Media City Manchester, UK;   DASH’16 Festival Helsinki, Finland;   Cafe OTO London, UK;   NIME, Conference, Brisbane, Australia;   Växjö Festival, Växjö, Sweden;   Audio Art Festival Krakow, Poland
2015  Gävle Theater Gävle, Sweden;   Fylkingen, Stockholm, Sweden

KET

Conversations

KET

KET conversations is an interactive audio-visual performance, a journey through various states of the visual that illustrates the project’s origins and its musical development. The composition explores what’s possible when visual follows the music as a subordinate companion that clarifies and densifies the atmosphere around it with very abstract sound cre- ation at the ever-shifting border between new instruments and a constantly reinvented pre- recorded song of Siberian lady O.V. Latikova. The soundworld of the piece is determined by the individual characteristics of her vocals, those are emerged from dynamic processing of musical timbre and visuals and mixed with synthetic sound material that is formed live and merged with a processed stream of video from cameras on the scene. Each mu- sical instrument in KET project, solar panel instruments, mobile instruments and tangible controllers uses the vocal stream as a driving source for the creation of sounds to be patterned independently, and accordingly to be manipulated to control various audio synthesis modules such as convolution of audio signals, digital sampling with granular synthesiser, harmonic structures with waveshaping synthesis and formant filtering. This allows the KET musicians to blend the KET instruments and vocal based audio so that the direct and instrment generated audio are merged together into a complex, but tightly mixed texture in KET conversations composition.

The music is the carrier of the project idea where the visual will illustrate the project’s origins and its musical development. The visual follows the music as a subordinate companion that clarifies and densified the atmosphere around with very abstract sound creation. The Singing Siberian lady O.V. Latikova participate via a pre-recorded video shown live in KET performances. Her vocals are processed timbre and visually, and mixed with synthetic sound material that formed live and mix with a processed stream of video from cameras on the scene. Webcams around the technology available and the concept is applied in the work On Watching by Thomas Bjelkeborn for the ensemble SQ with the first performance at the Reina Sofia Madrid 2014.