A collaboration between composer Gina Biver and semble performs classical music with influences

new media artist Edgar Endress, D.C.-based Fuse from jazz, world, minimalism, avant-garde, and
Ensemble presents a multimedia experience that electronica.
combines music and video. Led by Biver, the en-
The Journey / Videos for Performace at the Kennedy Center Washington DC

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L/Usina Mekanica / Documentation

[ Documentation: Katzen Center, American University - Washington, USA ]

Usina Mekanica, (UM) performed by Fuse En- real time via Max MSP, new music by Gina Biver
semble, is a conceptual new music/new media and Jorge Sad forms a soundscape with live mu-
happening involving live musicians, kinetic objects sicians and electronics that evokes not a single
and video generated in real time. In Collabora- childhood memory but a mental landscape -- a
tion with Workingman Collective. context of the meanings held within these memo-
ries, real or invented. Musicians of Fuse Ensem-
UM uses live-action wind-up toys -- their sound ble interact with the toys and the tactile sounds
and images manipulated and reintegrated into the they create while the Toymaster directs. The wind-
performance space via real time video and audio up machines move about on an elaborate kinetic
to propose a psychological landscape for the au- table created by the Workingman Collective that
dience. UM is a multilayer performance that uses follows the mechanical theme by being able to
as source material the possible relations of man move on its own – even becoming an instrument
and machine while playing on childhood memo- itself at one point. The table serves as a known
ries to trigger notions “estrangement” of the nurs- communal space that bridges the two layers of in-
ery rhymes and emotions provoked by the indus- vented psychological landscape and the mechani-
trialized clanking of the metal wind up machines. cal devices themselves.
While Edgar Endress manipulates the videos in
[ Documentation: Katzen Center, American University - Washington, USA ]
[ Documentation: Intermedia Festival, Indianapolis - USA ]