Artificial Idiot is heartbreaking and ear-deafening story about hursh childhood of artificial intelligence between gearwheels. If you want to rule the world but you hardly can calculate. What does your song sounds then?
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Don´t touch my machine!
Performed in Copper Leg Residency, Tallinn Art Week in Noblessner Factory, Culture Factory Polymer and Sveta Bar, festival Starptelpa in Riga.
„Metronomic nightmare“
Industrial incantation „Metronomic nightmare“ is a readjustment of silence by the matter and machines. Mechanical systems have an aboriginal quality to reduplicate its movement patterns. My mission is to make it loud. My toolbox consists intuition, irrationality and denial of cultural background noise. Music is still a strength of materials, a sign of deformation, acceleration of reflexes, a functional ergonomics of body-movements, an arbitrar implemention of error, a superiority of DIY philosophy and a brutal force!
A cornerstone of Erik Alalooga´s musical expression is an analytical interaction with matter and selfmade objects. Basic unit of composition isn´t a note, but periodically repeated pattern. Different methods are used to launch these cycles. Motors launch and keep running mechanical objects, which´s cycle creates clearly distinguishable sound-pattern.
Physical play with objects and matter allows manipulations with impulses, rhytms and speeds. It will provide necessary layer of dynamical improvisation to current artpiece. Use of electronic loopers allows to pick up short sections of sounds from object´s sonic expression and to combine different patterns. Inaccuracy of manual loopers will guarantee presence of organic human touch in technology-based artpiece. It can create endless amount of rhytm bases for sonic layers to add. General structures of pieces are pre-composed, but inaccuracy described above, allows to use playful improvisation.
Erik Alalooga´s background as installation- and performing artist reveals strongly in visual expression of objects, space and performer. Therefore best perceptual impression can be recieved mainly in live performances. Visual separation will lose a essential quality from complete artpiece.
“Metronomic Nightmare” has been performed in Tallinn, Viljandi, Riga, Kaunas, Vilnius and Klaipeda.
„Catastrophy and Dynamics“
In October 2016 an industrial incantation „Catastrophy and Dynamics“ was premiered in festival Üle Heli in Tallinn. In this performance i added industrial poetry of Alexey Gastev to my machinery.
Alexey Gastev was a revolutionary, poet, prophet of technogical development and inventor of Central Labour Institute. Essence of his poetry is ode to technological development. Text were performed by Eduard Tee. Light design was made by Karolin Tamm, video design by Carmen Seljamaa.
Photo:Kris Moor
Photo:Kris Moor
Photo:Kris Moor
Videolink: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0KANF6pnh0&t=115s
Spiral-mysterium
Photo: Kärt Petser
Premiere at Koidu Seltsimaja big stage in Viljandi, Estonia
April 26
Erik lalooga´s first year practical project of doctoral studies of theatre arts at
Estonian Music- and Theatre Academy
Supevisors: Madli Pesti (PhD), Taavi Kerikmäe (MA), Andrus Laansalu (MA)
Duration: ca 45 min
Author: Erik Alalooga
On stage: Helina Karvak, Johanna Mägin, Kirte Jõesaar, Chris Kirsimäe, Elerin Tammel, Ave Palm, Katrin Kubber, Elina Masing, Annabel Tanila.
Light-design: Sander Aleks Paavo, Elerin Tammel
Video-design: Ave Palm
Sound-design: Judith Parts
Stylist: Anni Zupping
Trailer: Mailiis Laur
Promotion: Elise Holter
William Gibson has declared that we are not living in a world filling up with technology, we are living in the world which is over saturated with technology. Perceiving this in everyday life is quite logic to realize that relationships between human and machines are not always as bright as technology companies want us to believe. Over-saturation is producing technological loneliness, claustrophoby, apathy, manipulations, psychoterror and other side effects not described in user manuals. Spiral-mysterium is analog model of Gibson world which spins humans, machines, natural laws, prejudices, hallucinations and phobias in wild dance between trance and contemplation.
Photo: Kärt Petser
Nonlinear video-collage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qIC8t2ouMA&t=6s
Metronoomiline luupainaja/Metronomic nightmare.
Industrial incantation „Metronomic nightmare“ is a readjustment of silence by the matter and machines. Mechanical systems have an aboriginal quality to reduplicate its movement patterns. My mission is to make it loud. My toolbox consists intuition, irrationality and denial of cultural background noise. Music is still a strength of materials, a sign of deformation, acceleration of reflexes, a functional ergonomics of body-movements, an arbitrar implemention of error, a superiority of DIY philosophy and a brutal force!
A cornerstone of Erik Alalooga´s musical expression is an analytical interaction with matter and self-made objects. Basic unit of composition isn´t a note, but periodically repeated pattern. Different methods are used to launch these cycles. Motors launch and keep running mechanical objects, which´s cycle creates clearly distinguishable sound-pattern.
Physical play with objects and matter allows manipulations with impulses, rhytms and speeds. It will provide necessary layer of dynamical improvisation to current artpiece. Use of electronic loopers allows to pick up short sections of sounds from object´s sonic expression and to combine different patterns. Inaccuracy of manual loopers will guarantee presence of organic human touch in technology-based artpiece. It can create endless amount of rhytm bases for sonic layers to add. General structures of pieces are pre-composed, but inaccuracy described above, allows to use playful improvisation.
Erik Alalooga´s background as installation- and performing artist reveals strongly in visual expression of objects, space and performer. Therefore best perceptual impression can be recieved mainly in live performances. Visual separation will lose a essential quality from complete artpiece.
Audiolink: https://soundcloud.com/alalooga/metronomic-nightmare
Metronomic Nightmare has been performed:
Sõltumatu Tantsu Lava, Tallinn, Estonia
Club Aleponija, Riga, Latvija
Kirtimu Kulturos Centras, Vilnius, Lithuania
Kauno Menininku Namai, Kaunas, Lithuania
Meno Zona, Klaipeda, Lithuania
Vilnius Art Fair, Vilnius, Lithuania
Supersonicum, Viljandi, Estonia
Fahle Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
Pimp My Beat Up
Video recording at my studio.
Live @ ARS.
Live performance at ARS open studio in Tallinn.
Photos by Sylvia Köster.
Obsession
Premiere on June, 2015 at Sõltumatu Tantsu Lava, Tallinn
Director, sound, light, cast – Erik Alalooga
„Obsession“ is a sleek technological theatre performance. Machine that has born as an object is been put into a state of subject. With this unwillingly coincides its personification, though it occurs without childish attempt to directly imply human values to it. Machine is a machine.
I constructed this machine seven years ago. He has no name yet. From the very beginning I have identified him through his function. His functions have always proceeded from his technical working principles and been part of a bigger system. Throughout seven years of my oeuvre, he has been a character representing all the dystopias of technophobes, worried that the machine might take the labour from humans. Yes, all this could have been done by a human. But it was the machine instead, not getting a single penny for it. His body feeds on 900W of electricity, gravity – that is a free resource so far and has 70 litres of tap water in its veins.
I do not consider him equal – as a replacement to human. I gave him life, yet he owes me nothing. Neither the other way round. Now we are on stage, us two. There would be no “you” without me and this performance without you. Do not get cheesy! There is nothing sentimental in here, flesh is meeting steel.
Articles (in estonian):
http://www.sirp.ee/s1-artiklid/teater/masin-ja-inimene/
http://www.sirp.ee/s1-artiklid/teater/masina-hajutamine/
http://kultuur.err.ee/v/ce2aed95-f535-4167-8e39-e04b59b03b8a
The Outburners
Premiere on May, 2013 in Black Hall of Culture Factory Polymer.
Performed in festivals Daama 2013 (Tartu), Estomania (Helsinki), Hommik (Tallinn)
Team: Erik Alalooga, Andreas W, Tanel V.Kulla, Taavi Suisalu
What if your plane happens to fall into a desert? The plane probably breaks. All kinds of pieces are scattered around. There is sand everywhere. You are lucky if you did not break your arm or neck. What happens now?
You start to look for pieces in the sand and clean them with the diligence of a beginner archaeologist. There is no welding machine. You might have a set of wrenches somewhere but they are all scattered around in the sand. You need to dig them out.
A hammer.. no, you probably do not have one. What an idiot would bring a hammer onto a plane? But what could you hit things with? Sand? Maybe your boot…. but where are all the nice tanker boots with metal sole inserts now? At home, of course, 1300 km away. This is not helping.
Somehow you manage to attach all the pieces together. But how probable is it that all of this will not blow up and catch fire when you start the engine for the first time?
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