KET – audiovisual art project
KET is one of the world’s oldest spoken languages. Through a song about life in Siberia sung on KET, we intend create a new musical language in the form of an audiovisual work. Our current artistic work is conceived as a meeting between the transition of spoken language and digital sound synthesis.
2018 / DMI-P-I project
KET
KET is Thomas Bjelkeborn Sweden and Koray Tahiroğlu Finland and our research and artistic work is part of activities at EMS in Stockholm and at SOPI, Department of Media, Aalto University School of ARTS, Finland.The music is the carrier of the project idea where the visual will illustrate the project’s origins and its musical development. The visual follows the music as a subordinate companion that clarifies and densified the atmosphere around with very abstract sound creation.
The Singing Siberian lady O.V. Latikova participate via a pre-recorded video shown live in KET performances. Her vocals are processed timbre and visually, and mixed with synthetic sound material that formed live and mix with a processed stream of video from cameras on the scene. Webcams around the technology available and the concept is applied in the work On Watching by Thomas Bjelkeborn for the ensemble SQ with the first performance at the Reina Sofia Madrid 2014.
The work is a audiovisual performance with Thomas Bjelkeborn and Koray Tahiroglu as musicians and video artists on stage for a live sound and video experience. The work involves music and video created live from images and sound of an old women singing on the language KET. Her singing gets expanded and evolves into a contemporary audiovisual performance. Both Thomas and Koray are involved in development of new ways for human interaction for live performance.
2016-2018 / Art Festivals
Live KET Performances
Performances include appearances at international festivals and venues, including IDKA in Gävle, Metanast at Salford Media City (UK), DASH'16 New Media Festival, Café OTO in London, Växjö, the Audio Art Festival in Kraków (Poland), Fylkingen in Stockholm, and Nordic Music Days in Helsinki. Through these presentations, KET has established itself as a distinctive work within the audiovisual performance scene, emphasising real-time visual composition.
KET live performance at Metanast MediaCityUK in 2016
KET Performance at the Nordic Music Days 2018 festival Helsinki
