Artist profile: Nohista
It's been a while since we last had an artist profile, but we're back with a blast. It's with great pleasure that we introduce you to the hard hitting work of Nohista. Known to his parents as Bruno Ribeiro, he's a film-maker, graphic designer, live performer, but above all an amazing AV artist that leaves you with ringing ears, bleeding retinas and gasping for breath.
How did you get started doing AV projects?
I got into a/v projects 5 years ago. In my early work, I composed a/v tracks based on movies samples, using emphasis or alteration to transform the original meaning of its narrative process. I focused on synesthesia and image manipulation to create a new video language based on visual rhythm, music and violence.Besides making music with frames, I wanted to use these samples, in a complex layering of sounds and images, to build a strong and disturbing experience for the audience. Sometimes during a screening, the crowd will start to dance or shout. It's kind of funny looking at people dancing on gunshots and explosions.
As I wanted to work on new ways of performing music and video together, I made a live
performance, called NOBODY. With Katia Petrowick, we worked on a choreography that we shot in a weekend. My goal was to build a human synthesizer that I could control and play as a real instrument. To push further my experimentations about the visual representation of sound, I used recordings of the dancer's body in a digital choreography.
In FORMOL, a performance with Gene Mark, my attempt was to create a mechanical form of life, through an allegorical representation of a human body. To do so, we designed custom instruments, rotating machines, breathing devices and percussive metal arms.
http://www.nohista.org/?portfolio=formol
Recently I also worked on a play/performance called @ROBASE about a scientific experimentation and Internet. Through video and sound, I controlled a disintegrating centrifuge. It is a complicated set-up because it involves a lot of computers, videoprojectors, dmx, smoke machines, 5.1 sound, and real humans.
You're on V-Atak. Can you talk a bit about what that label is about, and how you ended up there?
I'm part of this label since 2007, it focuses mainly on a/v works from different international artists, like Rko, Tasman Richardson, Tzii, Ripit and others. Eclectic and deviant a/v works can be seen through Dvd Releases, and at festivals. I went to some V-Atak screenings in Paris and was really impressed by the performances that I saw. It was inspirational and as I noticed similarities in my work and artistic aspirations, I got in touch with the label.
http://www.v-atak.com/
Canada and France seem to be epicenters for AV artists. What are some your influences in the past and present?
Yes, there are awesome artists and festivals in Canada. I have played several times there, and I'm actually moving to Montreal next year. You should watch Tasman Richardson's works, a Toronto based artist (also on V-ATAK) he is f****** awesome.
http://www.tasmanrichardson.com/
My influences are really wide but it's mainly a lot of music, movies experimental videos, the human body, nature, science, weird and loud noises.
So how do you go about making an AV track? What apps do you use, and how do
you choose the material?
Usually it begins with a notebook fulfilled of ideas and scribblings. Once I've collected my material, I use Premiere for cutting/chopping samples, After effects for tweaking/coloring/modifying/cutting/enhancing them, then I split the sound in Ableton live and the video in Resolume. All the samples in both apps are mapped with MIDI notes and I make all the music composition in Ableton, creating patterns, automations, etc...
What's your live setup like, and how does Resolume fit into it?
I use a laptop, some MIDI controllers, a hardware synthesizer with Ableton live and Resolume. During a live act, Resolume is just for video playback. Everything is monitored by Ableton via MIDI. What I like with Resolume is the stability and the accuracy in high tempo triggers, that allows me to create fast and complex musical/visual patterns.
Can you introduce us to mr Roboto?
Mr Roboto is a Thingamagoop, an amazing noise robot directly born in The BLEEPLABS. Besides his awesome look, he has a light sensor on his nose, so noise/tune/pitch is modified by the light he receives from his tentacle or any lights sources. Soon, I'll make a real band with him and some of his buddies.
Running or slow moving zombies?
Slow moving zombies for sure, running zombies are just infected dudes.
More infos and videos:
http://www.nohista.org/
How did you get started doing AV projects?
I got into a/v projects 5 years ago. In my early work, I composed a/v tracks based on movies samples, using emphasis or alteration to transform the original meaning of its narrative process. I focused on synesthesia and image manipulation to create a new video language based on visual rhythm, music and violence.Besides making music with frames, I wanted to use these samples, in a complex layering of sounds and images, to build a strong and disturbing experience for the audience. Sometimes during a screening, the crowd will start to dance or shout. It's kind of funny looking at people dancing on gunshots and explosions.
As I wanted to work on new ways of performing music and video together, I made a live
performance, called NOBODY. With Katia Petrowick, we worked on a choreography that we shot in a weekend. My goal was to build a human synthesizer that I could control and play as a real instrument. To push further my experimentations about the visual representation of sound, I used recordings of the dancer's body in a digital choreography.
In FORMOL, a performance with Gene Mark, my attempt was to create a mechanical form of life, through an allegorical representation of a human body. To do so, we designed custom instruments, rotating machines, breathing devices and percussive metal arms.
http://www.nohista.org/?portfolio=formol
Recently I also worked on a play/performance called @ROBASE about a scientific experimentation and Internet. Through video and sound, I controlled a disintegrating centrifuge. It is a complicated set-up because it involves a lot of computers, videoprojectors, dmx, smoke machines, 5.1 sound, and real humans.
You're on V-Atak. Can you talk a bit about what that label is about, and how you ended up there?
I'm part of this label since 2007, it focuses mainly on a/v works from different international artists, like Rko, Tasman Richardson, Tzii, Ripit and others. Eclectic and deviant a/v works can be seen through Dvd Releases, and at festivals. I went to some V-Atak screenings in Paris and was really impressed by the performances that I saw. It was inspirational and as I noticed similarities in my work and artistic aspirations, I got in touch with the label.
http://www.v-atak.com/
Canada and France seem to be epicenters for AV artists. What are some your influences in the past and present?
Yes, there are awesome artists and festivals in Canada. I have played several times there, and I'm actually moving to Montreal next year. You should watch Tasman Richardson's works, a Toronto based artist (also on V-ATAK) he is f****** awesome.
http://www.tasmanrichardson.com/
My influences are really wide but it's mainly a lot of music, movies experimental videos, the human body, nature, science, weird and loud noises.
So how do you go about making an AV track? What apps do you use, and how do
you choose the material?
Usually it begins with a notebook fulfilled of ideas and scribblings. Once I've collected my material, I use Premiere for cutting/chopping samples, After effects for tweaking/coloring/modifying/cutting/enhancing them, then I split the sound in Ableton live and the video in Resolume. All the samples in both apps are mapped with MIDI notes and I make all the music composition in Ableton, creating patterns, automations, etc...
What's your live setup like, and how does Resolume fit into it?
I use a laptop, some MIDI controllers, a hardware synthesizer with Ableton live and Resolume. During a live act, Resolume is just for video playback. Everything is monitored by Ableton via MIDI. What I like with Resolume is the stability and the accuracy in high tempo triggers, that allows me to create fast and complex musical/visual patterns.
Can you introduce us to mr Roboto?
Mr Roboto is a Thingamagoop, an amazing noise robot directly born in The BLEEPLABS. Besides his awesome look, he has a light sensor on his nose, so noise/tune/pitch is modified by the light he receives from his tentacle or any lights sources. Soon, I'll make a real band with him and some of his buddies.
Running or slow moving zombies?
Slow moving zombies for sure, running zombies are just infected dudes.
More infos and videos:
http://www.nohista.org/
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