Dirk Johan Stromberg

Future of Past

Video / 4:01 mins

ABOUT THE WORK

Future of Past looks at the changing perspective of spaces. Our home studios are now our offices that we let our students and colleagues into. The work uses the latency and induced feedback of Zoom, the current vehicle of social and work congregation. The performer responds to their own sound that exists in a delayed reflection of the self. The space is the home of the performer superimposed of that of the performers usual workspace.

REFLECTION

Cancellations started in February. First, locally, then UK, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam, and eventually Belgium, Netherlands and France. By early March, there were no concerts. Festival invitations came in nonetheless, but moved online. It was time to delve into new possibilities of performance. I looked to balance the frenetic energy of performance and the reality that the audience was now removed from the space. Future of Past is one piece in a series of works that delves into the possibilities of a new norm of performance.

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ABOUT THE ARTIST

Dirk Johan Stromberg is a lecturer at LASALLE's School of Contemporary Music who explores the dynamic interaction between performer, technology and performance practice. Designing both hardware and software has led to the development of a variety of interfaces, synthesis techniques, installation works, electro-acoustic instruments, and interdisciplinary production works and most notably his Phallophone – an electro-acoustic sensor-based instrument.