Live video music performance
Directed by Angie Eng
Video by Gabrielle Latessa, Jarryd Lowder, Angie Eng
Sound by Keiko Uenishi and Jarryd Lowder
Roulette Intermedium, 2000

CINSI is a Live Video Music Performance project which has its roots in late 60's and 70's experimental video and electronic music. Video and music pioneers who emerged from the philosophical influences of chance, indeterminacy, improvisation and social experimentation expanded the limit of our ability to perceive ourselves in techno-charged environments. Multimedia events such as, Paik's video/cello performances with Moorman(1968), Cage's "Musiccircus" (1967), Joan Jonas' "Organic Honey's Vertical Roll (1972) and the Vasulkas' opening The Kitchen (1971), paved the way for today's artists using an aesthetic vocabulary which includes a dialogue between electronic tool and moving image in a time-based event. Unlike earlier experimental performance which concealed the magic behind the movement, CINSI focuses on the deconstructed reality on the screen and speakers as well as, the experience of witnessing the transformation of object and sound from a physical realm to a complete digital world. Using a non-narrative approach to cinema, Cinsi follows the structure of a musical concert working with improvised pieces. Together abstracted imagery and sound drifts in and out of the senses leaving the viewer with a tonal collage.

Themes are derived from travel experience; flickering images passing by from a train, archeological artifacts pieced together, ruins describing an ancient ritual, the interruptions in the flow of traffic. Video artists and musicians improvise to these themes within a score. A "conductor"(Angie Eng) guides the pieces by mixing video images inputted by 2 video artists (Gabrielle Latessa, Jarryd Lowder) and outputting the images via two projections onto the wall. Live camera, pre-recorded footage, and computer video samples are combined and "played" together with the musicians. Musician, Keiko Uenishi plays her custom built "Electrotap Board Effector" with tape loops. Video artist, Jarryd Lowder also adds another musical layer using drum machine and samplers. Together the music and video interconnect and disconnect to achieve various psychological states from the travel experience.