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“Music must be seen” Bertolt Brecht

Vision Mahler

The idea of presenting a symphonic work as a live and visually interactive concert performance was a media-artistic approach to create a new performance practice.

A complex computer cluster, designed by Ars Electronica Futurelab of Linz, was used to generate the real-time visualization of Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 by Johannes Deutsch. The cluster simultaneously processed and implemented any modulations picked up from the orchestra (the 56 instruments were fitted with microphones and individual soundtracks and linked by sensors directly to the computer cluster) as nuances of the live interpretation of the music, before translating these directly into visual variations.

The audience inside the Philharmonie concert hall - equipped with 3-D glasses - entered an all-embracing virtual world projected onto a curved panoramic screen.

Further information about Johannes Deutsch can be found at: www.johannes-deutsch.at

Johannes Deutsch was born 1960 in Linz, Austria. As a painter and researcher he is driven by the basic question of how technology, science and art can be linked together into a single whole - since he worked as a curator at the Sigmund Freud Museum in Vienna between 1984 and 1989.
Johannes Deutsch trained at the HTBLA (Höhere Lehranstalt und Meisterschule für Kunst und Design) in Linz, and the Städelschule Postgraduate Institute for New Media in Frankfurt.
Johannes Deutsch first started working with Ars Electronica Futurelab in Linz in 2001, when he designed computer wall/ceiling pictures for his interactive CAVE-Application: Gesichtsraum that represented a kind of »spatial face« which reacted to individual movements with changes of colour and formal composition, effectively visualising the emotional reactions of the observer. Further collaborations with Ars Electronica Futurelab also investigated the possibilities of computer-aided interaction (for example, between 2002 and 2004 a production of Richard Wagner’s Das Rheingold). Gradually music became increasingly important - a central role in his visualisation of Mahler’s »Resurrection Symphony«.