Revisited Compositions is an audio-visual performance and a collaboration with a Portuguese musician. In the context of his practice, I investigate the concept of Intermedia, bringing sound and image together.

José Miguel Correia is a Portuguese musician working with me to explore how computation can combine two of his practices: music and painting. This project works as a form of interviewing by questioning the relationship between these two complementary artistic expressions. Through computation, I unveil the bond between his two practices, folding over the sound and the image. As an artist, I am producing a new layer of metadata over the work of another artist, by creating this moment of diffraction.

As I am researching through practice and through questioning, the first step was to study how his paintings and his music overlapped or intersected. My goal was to explore a visualisation of his performance that focused not only on the embodiment of the music, but also how it could leak through the space surrounding him. I studied the concepts of diffraction and intermedia, which where fields explored by Fluxus artists when questioning the boundaries of sound and image.

On technical terms, the project has three main elements: the sound input, the visual output and the projection mapping. The performance is based on a series of improvisation sequences on a piano that not only control the movement of five projections on painting canvases, but also how they cover the space, by appearing or disappearing on certain cues. At the end, it was particularly interesting and rewarding to see the performer fully interact with the art piece, rather than simply showcasing his musical skills, working between the control he had and the unpredictable nature of the interaction.