WHISPERS IN A PLANE OF LIGHT
JoAnn Gillerman and Jean Piché
Live Performance
(10 minutes - no edits)
WHIPSERS IN A PLANE OF LIGHT- LIVE PERFORMANCE and VIDEO
Invitations to Simon Fraser U. (SFU) and Emily Carr College of Art in Vancouver, Canada (3 times in the early ‘80’s) facilitated use of SFU’s experimental high-end computer graphics system in combination with my Sandin Image Processor (IP) to create live video/computer/music performances with Canadian musician Jean Piché. Our collaboration, over several years, created multiple performances and culminated in a revolutionary live performance “Whispers in a Plane of Light”, performed at Digicon ’83 (Vancouver, BC) and at Cadre ’84 (San Jose, CA). “WHISPERS”is a highly structured live “videomusic” performance for large-screen projection, video cameras, performers, and (analog) video and (digital) music synthesizers, each controlling the other, all in real-time (rapid switching, no edits) in front of an audience. This well-received seminal work was referred to as “one of the earliest interactive “videomusic” works on record”. In retrospect, we had created a MIDI system before the rest of the world knew what MIDI was.
After completion of my MFA, I taught myself electronics in order to read schematics, build and maintain a patch-programmable analog Sandin Video Image Processor/Synthesizer (IP) in Chicago (1975) and completed it after moving to the Bay Area (1976) where I used it in live performance, video production, and installation. I was the first woman to build the Sandin Video Image Processor, and have the 6th one ever built.
