Granular Synthesis Modell 5

MODELL 5 is a performance or installation in which the face of Japanese performer Akemi Takeya is subject to drastic timebased interventions that create in essence a cyborglike hybrid between human and machine A roller coaster dramaturgy following the life of the four clones on screens Using a technique derived from the principals of the sound design technique called granular synthesis but applied to the rather fat grains of single video frames visual content and sound GranularSynthesis manages to evoke from a few expressions on the face of the performer Akemi Takeya a frenzied exploration of the alter ego within touching distance