Musical Performance
- Title: Air Sampling #006 – Hybrid
- Type: Improvisation, Performance, Spatial Sampler XR
- Concept and Design: Greg Beller
- Performers: Greg Beller – Spatial Sampler XR, Eunice Martins – Piano
- Video: Tech-team of the Institute for Theatre Studies, FU Berlin
- Duration: ~14min
- World Premiere: Symposium (Virtual) Presence: Performances im hybriden Raum, Freie Universität Berlin, Institute of Theatre Studies, Berlin, Germany, July 17th2024
- Production: Synekine Project, Innovationslabor, HfMT Hamburg, Ligeti Zentrum, Symposium (Virtual) Presence, Organized by M. Akkermann and students of the MA Music Sound Performance, Division of Musicology, FU Berlin
Air sampling is a series of improvised performances in which a sound source is sampled and distributed in space in real time. In the first performance #001, Greg Beller uses new instruments Sound Space, Spatial Trigger and Spatial Looper, to record and distribute Lin Chen’s voice and percussion throughout the stage space. Then he plays the samples in an improvised musical choreography, making with Lin Chen a duo improvisation. Interactive video made by Janina Lukow aKa Klara. In the second performance #002, Greg Beller develops a new version of the SoundSpace using Virtual Reality. He composed and performed four works, the vanishing mirror, The Fault, AirSampling #003 – Macht Macht Macht and AirSampling #005 – Si Xu where he uses the same instrument SoundSpaceXR. For this sixth performance, Greg Beller and Eunice Martins, at the piano, improvise a musical form that unfolds in an invisible architecture revealed by dance, generated by the spatial gaps of collective memory.
