Robert Schumann Hochschule Düsseldorf

WRESTLING!

The installation and composition WRESTLING! by Milan Schell is an audiovisual music and fight simulation staged in space. The media lamp (visual) and loudspeaker (audio) represent two opponents who can be heard and seen trying to influence each other while attempting to gain the upper hand. The work is an example of anti-synesthetic composition: as the two audio-visual methods synchronicity and analogy are not used to combine stimuli or intensify them but instead used as a mode of interaction by two equal communication systems. The objective is to create audio-visual polyphony through the individuality and interconnection of both media channels, which could also be referred to as separate audio and visual voices.
There are five sections planned for the composition. The video shows the work-in-progress at the time of the bachelor’s degree thesis within the Visual Music major and is being supervised by Prof. Dr. Heike Sperling and Andreas Kolinski.