Zhizhi Nini live at esc medien kunst labor, Graz, Austria Original

Using sensors and game controls, two performers create a live dialogue, acoustic, and visual environments. For the sound part Ableton Live extended with customized and programmed max4live patches are used. All the data from sensors, game controllers as well as sound analysis is sent over OSC protocol to the Touch Designer software, in which the visual part is being created and live generated. This kind of network based OSC communication between performers allows them to control sound and visual parts of the performance in real time, closely related to each other.

For the performance Zhizhi Nini decided to use a completely similar setup of controllers, which allows to create a democracy in the control domain between the two performers. Visually this kind of setup and positioning on stage provides a sophisticated and holistic visual identity for the project.