Visual Music Theatre created and performed by NoiseFold and Trio KAZE

NoiseFold in collaboration with Trio KAZE present Zlatý Strom (The Golden Tree). The project is an interdisciplinary collaboration that brings together the live cinema and sound-art group, NoiseFold (USA) and acoustic instrumentalist, Trio KAZE (NL/DE), acclaimed musicians adept in medieval, renaissance, baroque and contemporary idioms. The Zlatý Strom performance seeks to illuminate a series of relational dialogues between diverse technologies, mediums and historical epochs by creating a visual-music hybrid that combines digital media, electronic music and interactive visualization technology with contemporary musical elements and instrumental techniques drawn from the 15th through 21st centuries. The music evokes a soundscape of elemental power wedded to a fluid abstract visual vocabulary emulating natural forces and bio-mimetic forms. Zlatý Strom is part of a larger work currently in progress that includes acoustic visualizations emulating fluid dynamics, virtual breathing vessels, crystallization of chaotic cellular structures, visual noise cloaking processes unlocked through performance of melodic decryption keys and other representations that evoke transformational (alchemical) metaphors. NoiseFold employ a custom audio-visual software system designed by the artists that generates or breeds a seemingly infinite array of virtual agents. These synthetic audio-visual forms result from the live mixing of a growing database of dynamic equations that are folded and recombined through a multi-threaded data feedback structure. The resulting sound is not a separate aural accompaniment but rather the direct sonification of the visual data itself. Thus the performers interact with autonomous visual forms to grow and sculpt the sonic content of the performance.

Aludel of the Dawn Albedo Year: 2014 Video created and performed by NoiseFold - David Stout and Cory Metcalf Music Composed and Performed by Trio KAZE and NoiseFold The Aludel of the Dawn Albedo is the third movement from the Autopoietic Theatre, an interdisciplinary collaboration that pairs NoiseFold (USA) with the acoustic instrumental ensemble, Trio KAZE (NL/DE), an acclaimed group of musicians adept in medieval, renaissance, baroque and contemporary idioms. The project takes the form of an instrumental song cycle illuminating a series of relational dialogues between diverse technologies, artistic mediums and historical epochs. This visual-music hybrid combines theatrical staging, electronic music and interactive visualization technology with contemporary and historic instrumental techniques drawn from the 15th through 21st centuries. With a focus on the poetic proto-science of Alchemy, the music evokes a soundscape of elemental power wedded to a fluid abstract visual vocabulary emulating chthonic undercurrents, natural transformative processes, apocalyptical visions and revelations. The title, Aludel of the Dawn Albedo, is a poetic reference to the first appearance of dawn’s light inside of an ovular vessel typically used by alchemists in the sublimation (transformational) process. This video was performed and captured live in realtime without edits or overdubs of any kind.

The Autopoetic Theatre is an interdisciplinary collaboration that pairs NoiseFold (USA) with the acoustic instrumental ensemble, Trio KAZE (NL/DE), an acclaimed group of musicians adept in medieval, renaissance, baroque and contemporary idioms. The project takes the form of an instrumental song cycle illuminating a series of relational dialogues between diverse technologies, artistic mediums and historical epochs. This visual-music hybrid combines theatrical staging, electronic music and interactive visualization technology with contemporary and historic instrumental techniques drawn from the 15th through 21st centuries. With a focus on the poetic proto-science of Alchemy, the music evokes a soundscape of elemental power wedded to a fluid abstract visual vocabulary emulating chthonic undercurrents, natural transformative processes and apocalyptic visions.

The music for the movements are co-composed by NoiseFold and Trio Kaze unless otherwise noted below.

Azoth – suge et irrue
3P4TK [Three Paetzolds for Trio KAZE - composed by David Stout]
Aludel of the Dawns Albedo
Templum Aqua Regia
Alchemical Nuptialis [Trio KAZE arrangement of Puis qu’en oubli (Since I am forgotten) composed by Guillaume de Machaut (1300-1377)
Three Differences [improvisation developed by Trio KAZE with David Stout]
Black Rain [ audo-visual solo composed and performed by David Stout)
Zlatý Strom ( The Golden Tree )

Autopoietic Theatre at Summerwinds Festival (video)