Optronica Lab at BFI Southbank proudly presents a specially commissioned new
work by Glasgow based audiovisual artist Simon Richardson - aka Vitascope -
featuring the music of his down-tempo electronica act Hannas Barber.
   
Since 1995, Richardson's trio have been developing digital/analogue improvisation techniques to explore music structures within "electronica".  They've been released on Dalriada and their own Instant Action Object imprint, and have also created several works for Addictive TV for their Mixmasters television and DVD project.
   
VJing as Vitascope, Richardson has worked with many artists including Andrew
Weatherall and Derrick May.  On the international stage he's played at art
festivals such as FILE in Sao Paulo, Brazil (2003) and on the trans-Siberian VJ tour
Kulturedrang Nach Osten (2002).  His work uses hand-made 16mm film loops, where the colour dynamism of sound is revealed through elemental movement of line, shape and pattern within a suggested 3-dimensional space.
  
Vitascope's new Optronica performance will be "expanded" VJing, where he improvises both sound and vision simultaneously; mixing four audio/visual sources in real-time with an AV mixer, using each source as a building block for an immersive sound-space.  Dynamically welding the ambient sounds of Hannas Barber with the heightened abstract movements of film and audiovisual Flash loops, Vitascope builds an hypnotic, ambient and unique audiovisual performance.