A few weeks ago we debuted an in-depth video interview with the Brazilian producer, composer, “sound alchemist” and new Creator Amon Tobin. Along with a retrospective look at his prolific career, which kicked off in the mid-1990s with the Ninja Tune record label and has continued to be a dominating force within the growing drum ’n’bass and IDM scenes, Tobin unveiled the genesis of his brand new live performance set-up. He gave us some exclusive insights into his collaboration with the audiovisual artists and projection mapping experts who helped create the visual identity for his new album, ISAM, will is beautifully augmented by digital and physical stage designs setup that can only be summarized as the culmination of two decades worth of sound and visual adventures.
Tobin’s keen interest in all things audiovisual has in turn inspired the creative community, who regularly pays tribute to the producer by using some of his tracks as source material for their own artistic works. Stilikon, a German “webdesign, grafikdesign, animation and skulpturen” studio just got hold of his music to serve as the basis for an audiovisual sound sculpture.
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Foleyroom is a moving structure animated and encoded in AfterEffects and Mandelbulb 3D, digitally staged in the lobby of the Milwaukee Art Museum. It reacts in real-time to “Foleyroom,” a 2007 track by Tobin off the album of the same name, and uses its complex rhythmic strucure and constantly evolving beat to grow, recede and produce tiny fractal patterns. The result is pretty stunning. It looks and sounds as if the music has turned into a fluid that gives motion and life to an inanimate object.
