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About Visisonor
The VISISONOR Foundation produces high quality projects in the field of Visual Media.
Our activities include:
Intertidisciplinary Performances
VISISONOR was founded in 2003 by blockflutist / multimedia artist Jorge Isaac. The core subject of VISISONOR is the combination of Performing Arts and New Media.
The development of New Media and technology lead to new questions over the perception and the way of conceiving corporealities. The increasing use of New Media in the contemporary music performance carries along renewal of the musical event as an all around scenic form, in which divisions between theatre, music and dance begin to become blurred. The presence and influence of the digital technology on different areas in art require new performing tools for the practitioners, and ask for the development of new methods of collaboration between makers and performers.
VISISONOR aims to articulate and generate information about multidisciplinary environments and New Media, in order to promote the development of the genre. The foundation also wants to bring enthusiasm into the educational system, calling the interest of high-level students towards this fascinating field.
VISISONOR produces every year exciting and innovative works. Each production is mostly performed in 10 different countries. The Foundation receives every year the sponsorship of the most respected Dutch funding institutions.
The Name
The Visi-Sonor is a device featured in the classic Foundation series by Isaac Asimov. The Visi-sonor, plaid by a skilled performer, could create amazing multimedia environments combining music and visuals. It could also stimulate and manipulate emotions directly.
"Ever hear a Visi-Sonor?"
"Once," said Bayta, equally casually, "at a concert of rare instruments. I wasn't impressed."
"Well, I doubt that you came across good playing. There are very few really good players. It's not so much that it requires physical co-ordination - a multi-bank piano requires more, for instance - as a certain type of free-wheeling mentality." In a lower voice, "That's why our living skeleton there might be better than we think. More often than not, good players are idiots otherwise. It's one of those queer setups that makes psychology interesting."
"You know how the beblistered thing works? I looked it up for this purpose, and all I've made out so far is that its radiations stimulate the optic center of the brain directly, without ever touching the optic nerve. It's actually the utilization of a sense never met with in ordinary nature. Remarkable, when you come to think of it. What you hear is all right. That's ordinary. Eardrum, cochlea, all that. But - Shh! He's ready. Will you kick that switch. It works better in the dark."
Foundation And Empire (Isaac Asimov, 1952)
Conversation between 'Bayta' and 'Magnifico'