Science Art

Felipe Ribeiro Science Artworks

Developed Science Artworks

1999.02. Pottery Wheel Acousmatics Proera: Inspired in the dot, line, plane painting theory this series of multimedia visualization and sonification performances to present how our phenomenologies flowing through dots, circles, spheres, and toroids they establish several important scientific knowledge like tracing, limiting, organizing, socializing, flourishing, sheltering, and conducting. It was an early attempt at generating arts and crafts unity through the promotion of fair trade labor ethics. Presentations: Electronic Language International Festival (FILE).

2000.10. Civilization Historiographic Cyberphony: From several visual score development practical workshops I have compiled this visual on the history of civilization. Presentations: Itaú Cultural Center, Commerce Social Service (SESC), Electronic Language International Festival (FILE), Museum of Image and Sound (MIS), and several other festivals with contemporary ensembles like the São Paulo Improvisation Orchestra (SPIO), Street Musicians Orchestra, and Discharge Astronomical Orchestra.

2001.01. Spectral Acoustics Cyberphony: Inspired by acoustic spectrum frequential harmony, neo-concrete visual arts, concrete poetry, and minimalist architecture this work uses voices, instruments, ensembles, and electroacoustic stochastic harmonic modelling to present the work of acoustic engineers. It was an homage to several friends of the electroacoustic composer working in the audio indutry and still living in poverty. Presentations: OMiD Audio Engineering School, Villa Lobos Park, São Paulo in the Streets Festival, Istanbul Biennial Fringe, and Arts Plaza.

2002.02. Colon (:) Cyberphony: A metaverse virtual world created out of two dimensional black and white open access images and open source sounds using Hyper-Text Markup Language (HTML). When users navigate sounds and poems are triggered creating soundscapes. It was inspired by the multimedia artist's passion for nonviolent games and his vast experience in teaching computer literacy for slum communities, bringing the questions raised by his students in this process. It was expanded to include an immersive installation and a whole opera crew commenting on the machine sounds. Presentations: Commerce Social Service (SESC), Los Angeles Free Waves Festival, Transmediale, Free Software International Festival (FISL), Chaos Computing Club (CCC), and several other festivals and community centers.

2002.05. Ode Remixological Cyberphony: To counterpoint the erroneous naming of audio remixology as plunderphonics, this mashup acousmatic piece uses thousands of legal micro samples to compose a cybernetic symphony that verses on the limits of original composition and disk-jokey (DJ) data curatorship since its melody and rhythm variations dynamics change profoundly in accordance to each raw material's own logics. It was such a success in the Latin America rave scene that the artist had to create a sequel called 'Simplex', and a microdeejay live act using the Soundplant software. Presentations: Temp Experimental Music Festivals, Los Angeles Free Waves Festival, Circuito Techno Festivals, among the best electronic music clubs and raves.

2003.04. Almagest Cyberphony: A string quartet has to apply the techniques of the Acronon translucent spheric scores to the collaborative creation of a score to read open geodesic solids with the audience meanwhile everyone is being recorded until the sounds are live edited and sounded back dancing around the soundspeaker almagest they are inside of. It is a memorial to the composer's family several scientists. Presentations: São Paulo Cultural Center (CCSP) and Brussels Electroacoustic Laboratory.

2004.02. Infopoetics Metamachine Cyberphony: A series of computers with an open source program that, depending on the audience's participation, calls different musicians and artists to present multimedia informatic poetry and minimalist lo-fi digital music that reflects on the philosophy of computational cybernetics and questions on our responsibilities towards technologies. Presentations: Electronic Language International Festival (FILE) and Museum of Image and Sound (MIS).

2004.09. Philosophers Tee Party Techno Proera: In a tea house abandoned ruins in the middle of a forest, a group of lost academic scholars have interdisciplinary conversations on the meaning of the opera they are in until they find a way back into civilization and go assist those in need where they end up delivering poetry with food to the audience in nearby endangered communities. Presentations: Several raves and underground parties.

2005.03. Stage Silent Proera: An butoh dancer dressed as an enlightenment rule of law (RoL) constitutionalist lawmaker stands still shivering more and more and a ballerina dressed as a puritan dances around him. Several microphones amplify the silence and molds its harmonics as the shivering dancer becomes more and more peacefully blessing the audience, the dancer sows perfumed water over the stage, and the curtains and doors are all open showing the workers of the theater. Presentations: Cacilda Becker Theater, Viga Dance Hall.

2005.05. Art and University Summits Proera: A vast series of teetotal abstemious performatic academic popular congresses in cultural centers, nightclubs, and community centers through the open governance of artists and scholars that allowed the development of countless projects to assist our communities better. Its conduction regency was very intuitive and synchronic for which I will always be grateful to everyone involved. They include local non-conventional food plants (PANCs) tea and vegetarian catering. Presentations: Green River Cultural Center, Antro Positivo, Roosevelt Square Theater Festival, Trackers Audio School, Inner Multi-Art, Night Coffee, and several other important alternative culture movements.

2005.07. Radial Cyberphony: A radio art composition, exhibition, and performance developed with the local community and commercial radio stations along international scientists of radio telescopes presenting a journey from the listening room to outer space. Presentations: University of São Paulo (USP) Palace of Arts.

2008.02. Sewers Safeguard Cyberphonics: Audiovisual presentation with colorful liquids of distinct densities of wonderment landscapes live altogether with compositions developed with sanitary agents and hydraulic agents recordings that testimony on local sewer problems. Presentations: LabOrg, Royal Paseo Prado Medialab, Madrid Contemporary Art Fair (ARCO).

2008.04. Endless Ascension Dance Proera: To create an immersive dance coreography in tune with the São Paulo Cultural Center (CCSP) Volpi Library's monumental hall slants, countless ascending binaural tones create a cloud of shining harmonics. It brings up questions about the limits of musicology in front of acoustic physics. Presentations: São Paulo Cultural Center (CCSP) Volpi Library,

2008.07. Egg Cosmophony Space Laboratory Proera: This electroacoustic immersive experience stages the theater or hall like a high security laboratory to present an operatic research of astronomical data using granular synthesis spectral modelling. This way it presents a multimedia journey to limits of our knowledge of the cosmos at the same time that presenting science institutions workers daily solutions for a better life until stars start pulsating sublime music. It uses the big history beads "cosmological sculptural score" to allow astronomers to conduct orchestras improvising in planetariums on the history of the universe. Presentations: Sarajevo Cultural Center, Electronic Language International Festival (FILE), and several planetariums.

2008.09. Labyrinth Library Immersive Proera: A library in the Pari outskirts of São Paulo had all its children and youth literature hall in a chaotic situation. The conductor coordinated a task-force to create a multimedia installation with sounds and videos with poetic information about the books. Book characters sung and played instruments above the shelves and below the desks. After the process the collection books were catalogued for the community. Presentations: São Paulo Biennial Fringe, Homeless Workers Movement (MTST) Library, and Havanna Biennial.

2009.06. Radiodance Cyberphony: A radio art composition that presents coreographers invitations for listeners to clean their house, create an open space, and dance contemporary steps in a poetic and subtle way that verses on the relations between psychoacoustics and the philosophy of the body. This was the moment when he applied open music education to mnemonics and started using soundscapes songline big history beads sculptural scores in addition to usual graphic notations and classical sheet music. Presentations: Mundial Radio, and Crisantempo Dance Hall.

2010.11. Acoustic Poetics Visual Arts Ecomuseology: For most of the composer's music direction, voice coach, and soundtrack works he creates much more music than needed for the stage settings. Because of that, he usually create foyer augmented reality (AR) sound installations and autonomous albums with extra materials such as visual artworks that evoke the very sounds in the music. Some curators liked the results so much that some of them asked to develop exhibits with them also presenting the music. Presententions: Rizoma.net, Bandcamp.com, and Studio for Electro-Instrumental Music (STEIM).

2012.02. Statistics Cyberphony: Developing daily polls with participants of international arts and science summits meanwhile recording responses and the sounds of the conference building infrastructure, festival, and endangered communities nearby. The result is a set of compositions based on data sonification and remix that tries to honor staticians, data analysts, and data scientists. Presentations: Free Software International Festival (FISL) and Transmediale Festival.

2012.12. Listening Poetics Cyberphony: Through the Danish Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences 'Music in Schools' programme classes for children and adolescents he was able to develop his ecomuseology, cyberphony, and proera methodologies that still benefits countless communities. It that specific pedagogical tour he coordinated the co-creation of artworks based on local folklore and mythology du to request from the students. Presentations: Museum of Images and Sound (MIS), public high-schools and music schools all around Denmark, Transmediale Festival, and several endangered communities.

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