CINEMA PERFORMANCE

This page presents examples of tools and output from Robert’s digital cinema systems.

Simultaneous Opposites #88: La Region Central Ave. 2022. A digital hommage to Michael Snow’s analog film La Région Centrale. I shot this with a 360-degree video camera, then retraversed the file–from inside it– using my Simultaneous Opposites engine.

A demo of a custom audio frame re-sequencer, one of several bespoke programs I built to perform digital “optical printer” functions on existing digital audio and video files.

15-second Living Cinema examples with 15-second explanations.

Clip of a Living Cinema performance at Electro-Music 2010. Programmed on a MacBook Pro with MIDI guitar and Boomerang looper.

The Duchamp Examination #10 (2006) Windows Computer, Boomerang looper, software sampler, MIDI guitar

Sand, or How Computers Dream of Truth in Cinema (1994) Programed on an Amiga III using digitized video and MIDI guitar.

Living Cinema Fragments (1987 – 1989) Programmed on an MS-DOS computer incorporating interactive videodisc, TARGA video capture and display card, text-to-speech, for real-time performance.

Living Cinema Fragment: Action in the World from Robert Edgar on Vimeo.

Programmed on an MS-DOS computer incorporating interactive videodisc.

Living Cinema Demo from Robert Edgar on Vimeo.

Programmed on an MS-DOS computer incorporating interactive videodisc.

Living Cinema Performance 1989 from Robert Edgar on Vimeo.

Programmed on an MS-DOS computer incorporating interactive videodisc.

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