Art in the Anchorage 17: NoiseGate
Granular Synthesis (Kurt Hentschläger and Ulf Langheinrich)
June 1-25, 2000
Brooklyn Bridge Anchorage
Photo courtesy of Creative Time
In an ongoing investigation into new media and electronic music, Creative Time presented the United States premiere of NoiseGate, a site-specific installation by Austrian art collective Granular Synthesis that used large-scale video projection and manipulated sound effects throughout June at the Brooklyn Bridge Anchorage.
NoiseGate was an immersive multimedia experience, depicting six massive projections of disembodied heads on 30 by 18 foot video screens. While the projected images formed and dissolved, a sonic field of multilayered pulses enclosed viewers in an environment intended to overwhelm, rattle, and disturb. Using proprietary video sampling software, audio hardware, and digital video, NoiseGate transformed the dark space of the Anchorage into an enormous media landscape.