MIKOMIKONA

Mikomikona Live Performance, Multimedia | Live | | 30'0'' | Germany | 2007 © Mikomikona Mikomikona experimentally investigates the dynamic transformability of sound into image, image into sound, and the effects of cross media interface. Devices that enable the connection and transformation of visual signals into acoustic signals and vice versa are developed and explored in different audio-visual set-ups creating a synaesthetical environment. The resulting performance modules all share the idea of new symbolic coding of media information and are also used for live VJ-ing. For the performances the artists work with analogue media like overhead projectors, super-8 film projectors, video projectors, and visual devices and sound. Mikomikona uses the simultaneity and speed of analogue electronic circuits. Their interest is more within the field of synthesizers (modulated), rather than the paradigm of sequencers (serial, clocked, and triggered, as used in digital environments). Theoretical approach: transformation noise. By transforming information into different media formats, snippets of transformation noise - bruit parasitaire - are received that reflect there shifted use of media technology. The transformation noise is media specific by revealing the media structure itself. In terms of acoustic-visual performances Mikomikona explores the dynamical transformability of technical image into sound and vice versa. By these means synaesthetic bypasses are compressed and media content is newly coded. Computer experience makes transparent the exchangeability of code: the use of binary coding to represent image, text, and sound. The binary code seems to be the omnipotent currency in which nearly all content may be saved and reproduced.