Pulse
RAY-XXXX
Audio: Alain Thibault
Video: Matthew Biederman

09/09/2006
Theatre du Chatelet
Paris, France

Documentation of the world premiere of Pulse.

PULSE is an audio-video performance based around the framework of an electronic pulsation iterated over time. The performance does not present a pre-established scenario via a traditional arc, but produces a series of psychological states through the manipulation of light and sound, reflecting the rich history of visual music, flicker films, and other synaesthetic experiments. No pre-recorded segments are utilized, but instead, the imagery is synthesized in real time using various aleatoric techniques and algorithms.

Note that the performance typically runs at speeds much higher than standard video / film rates, and the flicker at times reaches over 100FPS. This documentation was shot on video, so naturally the high framerate/flicker is not conveyed.

Pulse has been featured at:
Hipersonica (BR)
Elektra (CA)
Quebec Numeriques (FR)
FCMM / Light Cone / Images Festival (CA/FR)
RomaEuropa (IT)
Mois Multi (CA)
Donau Festival (AT)

Also appears on:
“Optofonica” (Line_41), DVD. TeZ (ed.). 12K/Line. Pound Ridge, New York. (2009)
(named 2009's #1 DVD of the year by textura!
"Some pieces naturally turn out to be more memorable than others, ... Rayxxxx's dizzying “Pulse,” which conjoins jagged, stroboscopic shapes to rubbery techno-like rhythms."