Go Back to Hiding in the Shadows (documentation)

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Go Back to Hiding in the Shadows

Live Audiovisual Performance
min 25' max 35'
2019
Nicosia [CY] / Berlin [DE]

pandelisdiamantides [at] gmail [dot] com

Go Back To Hiding In The Shadows
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an audiovisual work by Pandelis Diamantides pandelisdiamantides.com/bio/

"Go Back to Hiding in the Shadows is part of a collection of audiovisual works of the same name by Pandelis Diamantides. The work is a digital granary of processed instrumental and electronic sounds, field recordings, rock formations, plants, animals and swarms unfolds a narrative of becoming.

The prime source material of the work consists of deconstructed human voices, physical instruments and field recordings dissolved in an imagery of photographs, videos and processed visual material collected around the Troodos mountain range on the island of Cyprus.

Diamantides worked with custom software to algorithmically process the source material, generatively creating configurations of visuals and sound; a collaboration between human and algorithm, the work constitutes an audiovisual 'narrative of becoming' and questions the relationship between the digital and the organic.

The collection also seeks to explore place and identity as mutually defining forces whose interactions cannot be simplified or easily represented." - Sedition Art seditionart.com/pandelis-diamantides

"While creating the narrative of the performance I wanted to discover for myself what it is that connects me with the region (Cyprus, Eastern Mediterranean) where I grew up and developed the foundation of my personality and view of the world. I realised that what we people accept as place of origin, is what the establishment imposes on us which is usually the fabricated idea of nation and country. I visited the area again and again trying to understand what it means to me; nothing more than an introvert way of living, the experience of my reality, not a poor representation of it.

The imagery, sound and music in my work complement each other without falling back to a direct one-to-one relation. Imagery, sound and music are connected merely through the narrative of the work. Despite the fact that both audio and visual material are created exploring various generative and algorithmic techniques, the result is evaluated solely artistically based on personal aesthetic criteria.

Go Back to Hiding in the Shadows is a live audiovisual performance. Every presentation of this artwork is unique and certainly every location influences the performance." - Oddstream Festival pandelisdiamantides.com/oddstream-festival-interview

Go Back to Hiding in the Shadows was shaped during performances at:

POCHEN, Chemnitz, Germany, 2019
Voltaje Festival, Bogota, Colombia, 2019
RADAR Festival Beyond Music, Varna, Bulgaria, 2019
BOC Cultural Center, Nicosia, Cyprus 2019
Trippen Concept Store, Berlin, 2019
Fotonica Festival, Rome, Italy, 2018
Patchlab Festival, Krakow, Poland, 2018
Oddstream Festival, Arnhem, the Netherlands, 2018
Retune Festival, Berlin, Germany, 2018
LOOS, The Hague, NL, the Netherlands, 2018
Athens Digital Arts Festival, Athens, Greece, 2018
AV Node, Istanbul, Turkey, 2018
International Film Festival Rotterdam, Rotterdam - Sound//Vision, the Netherlands, 2018
FIBER Festival, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 2017
Thkio Ppalies Gallery, Nicosia, Cyprus, 2017

Music and Visuals by Pandelis Diamantides

pandelisdiamantides.com

@pandelisdiamantides
@microseq

Mastered at AV Playroom, Nicosia, Cyprus, 2019
Mastering Engineer: Marcus Papageorgiou

Released April 11, 2019, Berlin, Germany
Producer: Machteld Jacques

© Pandelis Diamantides
℗ Studio Pandelis Diamantides

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