#BIOCOIN
Music of bacteria colonies grown from money
2018 | interactive audiovisual installation and performance
ORGANIC OSCILLATORS Series
#BIOCOIN is an interdisciplinary project exploring the sonic properties of bacteria found on money. #BIOCOIN is an audiovisual installation and a performative
instrument that transforms, in real-time bacteria colonies in petri-dishes grown from coins and
banknotes into music. The installation performs through a
technique called sonification or auditory display— a
process and a methodology of translating digital data
into sound.
The project is created by Antoni Rayzhekov in collaboration with the micro-biologist Tanja Machuer (Robert Bosch Research
Institute, Renningen, DE), Hagen Betzwieser - camera & photography, Lisa Przioda - Coordination (Robert Bosch GmbH), Sophie-Charlotte Thieroff - Coordination (Akademie Schloss Solitude) within the Art&Science and Business residency “PLATFORM12” - a fellowship program and an
art residency by Akademie Schloss Solitude (Stuttgart,DE), Robert Bosch GmbH and Wimmelforshung (Berlin, DE) in 2018.
Première: 09/06/2018 @
Symposium “Rethinking Affordances” currated by Ashley Scarlett & Martin Zeilinger - Akademie Schloss Solitude - Stuttgart, Germany
#BIOCOIN: Solo
for living bacteria found on money
2018 | interactive audiovisual installation and performance
ORGANIC OSCILLATORS Series
#BIOCOIN:SOLO is an audiovisual installation and a performative
instrument transforming, in real-time, living bacteria grown from coins and
banknotes, into sound by using computer vision and sound synthesis. The installation performs through a
technique called sonification or auditory display — a process and a methodology of translating digital data into sound.
The project is
created by Antoni Rayzhekov in collaboration with the
micro-biologist Tanja Machuer (Robert Bosch Research
Institute, Renningen, DE) and Dimiter Ovtcharov - 3D modeling & sculpture production, Hagen Betzwieser - camera & photography, Lisa Przioda - Coordination (Robert Bosch GmbH), Sophie-Charlotte Thieroff - Coordination (Akademie Schloss Solitude) within the Art&Science and Business
residency “PLATFORM12” - a fellowship program and an
art residency by Akademie Schloss Solitude (Stuttgart,
DE), Robert Bosch GmbH and Wimmelforshung (Berlin,
DE) in 2018.
Première: 09/06/2018 @
Symposium “Rethinking Affordances” currated by Ashley Scarlett & Martin Zeilinger - Akademie Schloss Solitude - Stuttgart, Germany
Tissues
for Heart, Brain, Lungs, Skin Cells and Modified Microscope
2018 | interactive audiovisual installation and performance
ORGANIC OSCILLATORS Series
How do heart cells differ in sound compared to brain-cells or lung from skin cells?
The audio-visual installation - Organic Oscillators - created by Antoni Rayzhekov in collaboration with Dimiter Ovtcharov - 3D modeling & sculpture production, is attempting to reveal through sound the underlying relationships between cells and compare different tissues by sonifing the cellular structures and patterns. This is done with advanced microscopic imagery, computer-vision and sound-synthesis. The installation enables one to examine and sonify an image seen from a microscope in real-time.
Associated Researchers:
Ina Attree, Philippe Huber, Stéphanie Bouillot – Biosciences and Biotechnology Institute of Grenoble, CEA-Grenoble France
Project partners
Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart Germany — Land Salzburg, Austria — Atelier Arts Sciences, Grenoble — CEA — Hexagone Scène Nationale Arts Sciences, Meylan — FabLab — La Casemate – Grenoble.
Exhibition opening: 01-10/02/2018 - EXPERIMENTA, Arts Sciences Biennale,, Grenoble / France
TOPOLOGY OF THE SONIC BODY
Duet for body and scanner feat. Federica Dauri
2017 | Audiovisual Performance-Installation
The body as a score.
“Topology of the sonic body” is an audio-visual body-installation, investigating the sonic
properties of the performing body and its curvature in space through sound.
"The Sonic Body" - Interview with Federica Dauri & Antoni Rayzhekov — Sep 19, 2017 at Schloss-post
Première: 23/09/2017 @ Digital Arts Festival - National Academy of Arts - Sofia, Bulgaria
THESECRETCORNER.NET
after Johannes Cladder's The Secrect Corner (1984)
2017 | net-art
The Secret Corner online is a project by Antoni Rayzhekov and Jean-Baptiste Joly with the participation of Hagen Betzwieser (camera interviews) according to an idea by Jacques Caumont. Online from September 14, 2017.
Exhibition opening: 14/09/2017 - Akademie Schloss Solitude, Germany / Internet
THE PINZGAU ETUDE
for Cheese and Modified Microscope
2017 | video of live performance
ORGANIC OSCILLATORS Series
An old microscope is transformed into an audiovisual instrument, revealing the hidden
structures of the special PINZGAU cheese, being read as a musical score. The project explores the relation between structure and chaos as a score.
Public presentation: 09/09/2017 @ Ortung Sthulfelden, Austria
RE_SONANCE
for extended piano and performer
2016 | Performance
The piece RE_SONANCE was written during the residency at Akademie Schloss Solitude,
Stuttgart in 2016 as an attempt to explore my idiosyncratic way of playing piano. The research continued in 2017 within the Artist-in-Residence program of SubNET and Center for Human-Computer
Interaction at University of Salzburg as a research in Biologically-Augmented Audiovisual instruments.
More in the Interview: Biologically-Augmented Piano @ SchlossPost
Première: 24/06/2016 @ Sommerfest - Akademie Schloss Solitude - Stuttgart, Germany
Photo by Judith Engel
SOMAPHONY
solo for stressed performer
feat. Katharina Koeller
2016 | Audiovisual Composition
SOMAPHONY is a project commissioned by Intel in 2016, resulted in an audiovisual composition that can be played as an instrument and is embodied in a physical object representing the interface to the composition itself. The interface is named - SOMAPHONE - a device integrating generative music and visualization technology in one combined audio-visual instrument. It uses biofeedback, such as heart-rate, Galvanic Skin Response, movement and gestures as a natural and expressive interaction between the composition and the performer. more...
Team: Katharina Koeller, Antoni Rayzhekov, Dimiter Ovtcharov, Niki Malinov
Première: MusicTechFest 2016 - Berlin, Germany
10VE
for Two Amplified Bodies and Surveilled Audience
2014/2015 | Audiovisual Performance-Installation
feat. Antoni Rayzhekov & Katharina Koeller @ Theater Spielraum, Vienna - Festival KulturHerbst
“10VE” is an audiovisual performance installation investigating on the relationship between surveillance and private space by interconnecting performers and audience using motion tracking, sonification of biofeedback and movement.
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Première: 24-26/09/2014 @ Old City Prison - ATALAIA Artes Performativas - Ourique, Portigal
“Content Award 2015” category “Sound & Vision" - Vienna, Austria
Photo by Dimiter Ovtcharov
10VE:SEQUENCE FOR TWO
for Two Amplified Bodies
feat. Antoni Rayzhekov & Katharina Koeller
2014 | Performance / Video Installation
10VE:SEQUENCE FOR TWO is a duet for two amplified bodies equipped with wireless biofeedback and movement devices, measuring the performers heart-rate, stress-level, breath and movement. The synchronizations and correlations of the signals generate a musical representation of the occurring processes between their bodies.
ATALAIA Artes - Artist In Residence
Duration: 3:50", format: HD Video, filmed 2014 at Cineteatro, Ourique - Portugal
2016.04 Athens Biennale - Transmission Art Festival - Athens, Greece
2016.01 Athens Video Dance Project 2016 - Athens, Greece
ALTERATION
Duet for Step-Dancer and Chello-Plate
feat. WOOGURU
2014 | Audiovisual Performance
A reactive audio-visual environment is acting as a performative instrument and a partner. An examination of the emerging creative digital behaviours as a part of nature. The project is an investigation on how to co-exist in such new environments by researching on new choreographic strategies emerging from it.
In collaboration with WOOGURU
Theater Spielraum - Vienna, Austria
Première: ALL THAT's JAZZ Festival - curated by Moving Poets at Kunst am Spreeknie -
Schöneweide Art Festival
Novilla Art Space - Berlin, Germany
Self_Assembling_Sym_Phony
for Confused Audiovisual Machine
2014 | Audiovisual Installation
Self_Assembling_Sym_Phony is a participatory
generative audio-visual composition, physically
embodied as a 3D projection mapping audio-visual
installation of a self assembling musical piece.
White Room @ Kunstraum Pro Arte Hallein, Austria
11 September - 04 October 2014
Group Exhibition: Schnittschtelle 2014 -
Selbstassemblierung
Black Room @ Schmiede Festival, Hallein Austria
11. – 21. SEPTEMBER 2014, Alten Salzfabrik - Perner Insel - Hallein, Austria
MOTHERBOX
2013/2014 | Audiovisual Installation
Concept, Music & Animation by Antoni Rayzhekov
MOTHERBOX is series of site-specific audiovisual installations representing
“gates” or glitches between the digital and the physical reality.
Falmouth City Library 3D model by John Lee [2014]
Dungeon 3D model by Emanuel Andel & Antoni Rayzhekov [2013]
.circle
Audio visual concert for Harp & Hang, SpaceTime Helix and Reactive Visuals
2014 | Audiovisual Performance
An experiment between Martina Stock & Christian Schratt, Michela Pelusio and Antoni Rayzhekov - produced at Schmiede "RETURN" 2013 Hallein - Austria
Photo by Jannik Weylandt
Pan::Ik
2013 | Audiovisual Performance
A study in motion-tracking, generative visual and sonic material, developed in collaboration with Federica Dauri and Alberto Novello, during our residencies at STEIM & DansMakers 2013 in Amsterdam - The Netherlands
Epi::Akten
2013 | Performance
Epi::Akten is a performance-study in real-time motion-tracking & sonification of body movement with Federica Dauri and Alberto Novello, during our residency at Trasformatorio Zero in Montalbano Castle, Sicily - Italy, including a participation at T.Off festival for contemporary dance in Cagliari, Sardinia - Italy in 2013.
Wasserturm
Ciference Symphony & This.Play
2013 | Media enhanced acoustic performance
Collaboration with Martina Stock, Christian Schratt and This.Play
a.k.a Antoni Rayzhekov & Emanuel Andel
Watertower in Vienna - Austria
People Move People
collaboration with Martina Stock
2013 | Participatory Audiovisual Installation
Collaboration with Martina Stock
presented at "Lange Nacht der Museen" 2013
Stadtgalerie Salzburg - Austria
Quantum Picture III
2013 | Participatory Audiovisual Installation
Showcase of Fascinate Conference 2013 - Falmouth - UK
Open rehearsal with Sara de Santis
Quantum Picture II
2013 | Participatory Audiovisual Installation
Trasformatorio Zero
Montalbano Castle, Sicily - Italy
Quantum Picture I
2012 | Participatory Audiovisual Installation
Quantum Picture series is a performative audio-visual installation sensitive to movement.
An image is being constantly processed based on the viewer's movement by using computer vision and image
analysis. The process is irreversible, the original is lost and one can see only fragments of the initial image and sounds remained from the last visitor. The quantum state of the installation is being altered in the process of observation. The project is inspired by the principals of quantum mechanics and quantum measurement.
Q202, Vienna - Austria
ECOSMOSIS
2012 | Audio-visual interactive environment
collaboration with M. Benayoun / L. Stergiou / E. Andel
By Maurice Benayoun in cooperation with This.Play a.k.a Antoni Rayzhekov and Emanuel Andel,
curated by Lina Stergiou at Hellenic Cosmos Cultural Center 2012 in Athens - Greece
Photo by Maurice Benayoun
Virtual Insanity
2011/2012 | Visual-active dance theatre
Flowmotion Dance Company / M. Zeplichal / A. Rayzhekov / E. Andel
A project by Flowmotion Dance Company, generative animation by Martin Zeplichal, motion tracking by This.Play a.k.a Antoni Rayzhekov and Emanuel Andel
DSCHUNGEL theater 2011/2012 in Vienna - Austria
HYPERCUBE v0.1a
2012 | Re-Active Audiovisual Performance
Experiment with interactive visualisations, motion tracking and generative sound
with This.Play a.k.a Antoni Rayzhekov & Emanuel Andel, Mathias Husinsky and Andreas 'Muk' Haider
Schmiede "Zero"
Hallein - Austria
RETURN
2009 | Site-specific stream-theatre performance
based on Harold Pinter's texts, director Antoni Rayzhekov
Site-spacific stream-theater performance based on Harold Pinter's texts with Bilyana Kazakova, Peter Peykov and Janet Yovcheva at A:part:mental 2009 in Sofia, Bulgaria
Photo by Yovko Lambrev
KRAPP
2008/2009 | Theater performance
based on Samuel Beckett's "Krapp's last tape" with Naum Shopov
director Antoni Rayzhekov
KRAPP is a theatre performance based on Samuel Beckett's text "KRAPP`s last tape"
monodrama with Naum Shopov
staging: Naum Shopov
director and music: Antoni Rayzhekov
stage design:Elena Ivanova
voices: Valentin Ganev, Hristo Cheshmedjiev
The National Theater "Ivan Vazov", Sofia - Bulgaria
NIGHTSONGS
2005/2006 | Site-specific Theater Performance
by Jon Fosse, director Peter Stoyschev
Site specific theater performance based on Jon Fosse's play.
Director Peter Stoyschev, with Vesela Kazakova, Antoni Rayzhekov and Bojidar Popchev
Music by Antoni Rayzhekov and Vesela Kazakova
Hambara 2005/2006 in Sofia, Bulgaria
Photo by Yovko Lambrev / Rumen Vassilev