Circo Ipnotico is an audiovisual improvised session with an open performer lineup. The score is given by Mud and Tonylight’s dub
architectures. The audiovisual journey evolves from here and the performers (from 3 to 6) use very different tools: from fd’s Girello, a rotating support supplied with different surfaces featuring shapes, colours and materials which are modified in real time using paint; to Peppo_lasagna’s Pepposcopio a Moduli Digitali, to software interventions by other performers. A wooden structure supports a disc regulated by a 3 speeds engine. On the disc the performer puts, from time to time, a paper sheet, colored by either using
a brush or painting directly on the rotating disc. A video camera is set on an arm.

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Otolab Method
(Interview by Claudia D'Alonzo for
Digimag 41 - February 2009)

The interview to Otolab is a result of the event that was organised on January 16 th by the O' Gallery of Milan, in collaboration with Marco Mancuso, Digicult curator. During that evening, some members of the Milanese collective (which has come at its eighth year of life) could meet, have talks and watched the national exclusive preview of some of their recent creations, such as “Circo ipnotico”(Hypnotic circus) and “Giardini neri” (Black Gardens).

A few hours together transported the otolab phenomenon into the gallery event room: not only an artistic entity, yet also and above all a means to improve interpersonal relationships and sharing. That is the heart of the collective, which has been configuring itself as a rhizomatic core that can tag along and connect, cross different worlds and generate them. An open and complex system, in which the mutual relationship of every element causes something unexpected and unpredictable. A spontaneous and changeable complexity, made up with the members's different experiences and attitudes, that otolab transformed into a method: a relational and creative method, a laboratory audiovisual-experience method, an approach to technological tools and to an interaction with the audience.

An audience which is the reflexion of otolab, an aggregation and mixture of origins and contexts. A composite audience, as well as the one that was at the soirée in the Galleria O', a varied crowd that converged there for the same interest in the collective. The purpose of this meeting was to keep two completely different live together, Circo Ipnotico and Giardini Neri, to produce the heterogeneous product of the group, compare two absolutely different poetics and experiences of audiovisual live performance. The analogical – digital improvisation, the audiovisual trip violence of Circo Ipnotico, as well as the almost cinematographic inner trip of Giardini Neri.

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