Ricardo Miranda Zúñiga

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Radio Gun Revolt, Moving Forest

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After a week of tearing up radios, building small noise circuits and preparing wooden guns for the insurgency act of Moving Forest, it finally came together on Friday and it was great fun. View documentation of the Radio Gun Revolt.
Radio Gun Revolt, Moving Forest

Shu Lea Cheang and Martin Howse organized the Moving Forest, a 12 hour sonic performance for transmediale that ocurred Friday from 11am to 11pm. Moving Forest is a reinterpretation of the final 12 minutes of Akira Kurosawa’s “Throne of Blood”, a film based on Macbeth – a premise for a sound performance that is all too fitting for the 2008 transmediale as the theme this year is CONSPIRACY. I consider Macbeth a quintessential Western narrative of conspiracy so taking the culminating moments of Kurosawa’s interpretation and reinterpreting the final act into a 12 hour series of actions, performances, coding, transmitting that involved many artists was a high light of this year’s transmediale.

Previously I had been working on a project involving an electronic circuit and wooden guns, Martin liked the guns very much and asked me if I’d bring them to transmediale. However, the only sound on the circuits is a beep, so for Moving Forest, I replaced the original circuit with radios and other circuits that merely make noise and with 20 volunteers we marched from Siegessauele, Berlin’s Victory Column to transmediale, meeting up other armies of insurgency along the way and we stormed the castle – Haus der Kulturen der Welt (House of World Culture). Each group was transmitting its own broadcast (I was transmitting from my backpack to the immediate area), but upon gathering before the stairs of HKW we all switched to the same transition for one noisy insurgency. Here are a few still from a video documentation of the insurgency:

Radio Gun Revolt

Radio Gun Revolt

Radio Gun Revolt

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February 3rd, 2008 at 5:06 am