Regina José Galindo, Caparazón, performance, Museo D’Arte Contemporanea, Santa Maria Donna Regina, Naples, Italy, 2010

Performances and Installations by Sacred Places vzw in Belgium

Performance by Sacred Places vzw in St Laurentius' Church, Antwerp, Belgium, 2006

Performance by Sacred Places vzw, St Michael's Church, Ghent, Belgium, 2006

Performance by Sacred Places vzw, St Michael's Church, Leuven, Belgium, 2006

Performance Art in Sacred Spaces

Mario Höber - Zwang ist zwecklos, performance and installation in St. Andrä Kirche, Graz, Austria, 2003

Blake Carrington - Visual/Acoustic Installation and Performance of Gothic Cathedral Scans

Cathedral Scan translates the architectural plans of Gothic cathedrals into open-ended musical scores. Through a custom Max/MSP/Jitter patch, laptop and MIDI controllers, the plans are sonified in a real-time performance of image and sound. Rich organ-like harmonics and unique rhythmic signatures emerge from each graphic icon in a live scanning process.

Groups of scanners filling the sonic spectrum may act in synch, forming a single harmonically-dense rhythm, or they may scan the plans at different speeds, resulting in complex polyrhythms. Each plan is treated as a modular score, with a distinct rhythm and timbre of its own. Also, by varying the speed and intensity of each scanning group, drone-like sounds may emerge based on the “resonant frequency” of the black and white plan.

Visually, the scanning reveals the graphic structure. Smoke-like wisps appear and fade away as the scanners make each pass, suggesting a metaphor between architecture and ghost-like palimpsest. An empty white field surrounds each plan, placing them in a minimal landscape that is both flat and expansive.
Performances 2009-2011:
CATHEDRAL SCAN CD RELEASE CONCERT, Basilica of St. Patrick’s Old Cathedral, NYC
ELEKTRA INTERNATIONAL DIGITAL ARTS FESTIVAL, Usine C, Montreal Québec
BEYOND/IN WESTERN NY BIANNUAL, Hallwall’s Contemporary Art Center, Buffalo NY
RENCONTRE, Rustines Lab, Montreal Québec
CATHEDRAL SCAN v.2, Hendricks Chapel, Syracuse NY 

Soundwalk / Ulysses' Syndrome At Voix Vives

Walking on water

Michael Cross, Bridge, 2006