ABOVE: Performance extract at CONTACT: 17th Biennial Ammerman Center for Arts & Technology Symposium.
(Duration: 3:47 2022).
(Duration: 3:47 2022).
NEUTRAL FRIEND,
UNKNOWN ENEMY
2022 SOFTWARE ART / AUDIOVISUAL PERFORMANCE
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In 1986 the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) released the APP-6(C) standard. Throughout its 558 pages, the document unveils a military notational system featuring acronyms, symbols, and arrangement principles. "Neutral Friend, Unknown Enemy" is a software-art piece that builds generative cartographies based on the APP-6 system. Several confrontational scenarios create a speculative audiovisual composition. All sounds were generated using a modular synthesizer setup and field recordings. The composition's macrostructure appears intermittently in the form of a graphic score.
The project was initially commisioned as a fixed-media piece by the Centro Mexicano para la Música y Artes Sonoras (CMMAS, MEX). A second iteration was later presented as a live performance at "CONTACT," the 17th Biennial Symposium on Arts and Technology, Ammerman Center for Arts and Technology.
In memory of mexican artist Jesús Antonio Martínez Escobar (JAME)†2022
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2024
TENOR 24 (9th International Conference on Technologies for Music Notation and Representation, ZHdK, Zurich, CHE)
_2022 - Mexican Center for Sound Arts (Morelia, CMMAS, MEX):
Curators: Jorge Flores, Gabriela Reyes (F3.Studio).
Project supported by the California State University, Fullerton (CSUF).
Special thanks to the Systemics Public Program at UCSB, and my colleagues at CSUF.
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2022 - “CONTACT” Symposium, Connecticut College (New London, USA):
Shawn Hove - Technical Director, Myers Studio.
Ethan Chen - Lights and Documentation Rehearsal Photos.
Moqu Alqudah - Stage manager.
Audiovisual Installation, Kunstraum, TENOR24
Zurich University of the Arts ZHdK (CHE, 2024)
Zurich University of the Arts ZHdK (CHE, 2024)
IMAGE: Printed version of the project (TRYST show, Torrance Art Museum, California, USA).
20.5 x 19.2 in. Ink on archival paper.
IMAGE: Performance score used throughout the composition process.
16.5 x 11x 75 in. Ink on archival paper.
IMAGE: Retraced symbols from NATO’s v.APP-6 standards (digital image, 2022).
IMAGE: Performance rehearsal capture by Ethan Chen (Nov. 11th, 2022).
IMAGE: Performance photograph by Bob MacDonnell (Nov. 12th, 2022)
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