NODE+CODE #6 – Digital Scenography and Biometric Sonification

with Antoni Rayzhekov

Artist and new media hacker Antoni Rayzhekov talked about biometric sonification, motion tracking and digital scenography in the context of contemporary performance. He revealed how he uses cutting edge technology impacting and extending performing arts:

“My work is focused on exploring synergies between generative music and participatory art by designing reactive audio visual platforms that amplify different aspects of the performer and the performance itself as an attempt to communicate the invisible.”

Investigating on the relationship between surveillance and private space

Rayzhekov’s project ‘10VE’ is a participatory musical biofeedback and movement composition for two actuators and an audience. It interconnects contemporary electronic music, performance and participatory art through technology.

The project started in 2014 by Antoni Rayzhekov and Katharina Köller within the ATALAIA Artes art residency, Ourique (Portugal) and was later i.a. performed in Frankfurt at NODE15 Forum for Digital Arts.

About the artist

Antoni Rayzhekov

Vienna, Austria

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Antoni Rayzhekov is a Bulgarian theater maker, composer and new media hacker. He studied theater directing and acting at the Academy for Theater and Film Arts ‘Krastyo Sarafov’ – Sofia and jazz music improvisation – at the Vienna Konservatorium. He worked as a consultant in informational technologies for United Nations in Vienna and in the period 2008–2013 he established together with Emanuel Andel the vienna-based new media label ‘THIS.PLAY’ – focused on interaction design. Currently he is an independent artist and guest lecturer in Interactive media at the University for Applied Science, St. Pölten (Austria).