GULLIBLOON - PERFORMANCE AT LOVEBYTES 05
[16-04-05]

Gulliboon is about sonification and visualization of network activities. Things happening on the internet (or parts of it) are being scanned, processed and transformed into sound and images in real time.

Data is being collected on different layers of network communication, from low level administrative information of single network packets up to transcripts of chat systems, weather data available on the net, web access statistics and other freely available information. The result of the transformation into multi media data is also being fed back into the system as audio and video streaming sources available to the public. Access to these streams does affect the system as well, creating a feedback loop including the viewer


Gulliboon - Oswald Berthold, Wernfried Lackner
and Andreas Pieper

Andreas Pieper
"I've played Lovebytes before, years ago. I was quite pleased with tonight. For me it's the first time in a cinema and I liked it. It's a special setting, it's very image centered but much of our work is dedicated to audio stuff as well".

Oswald Berthold
"Cinemas not a new place to play for me, I think it's a good environment though for audio visual in general"

Using Open Sound Control to interconnect various other software units, Gulliboon can distribute the workload among several computers, local and remote, and is therefore quite scalable in size depending on the complexity development of a specific set up. With purpose built graphics engines, Oswald Berthold, Wernfried Lackner and Andreas Pieper translate the streams of data into an impressive storm of 3D shapes, images, and rhythmic noise.

GulliBlobCurrent
GulliDiagram


Daniel, Manchester
"Interesting but suffered from repetition with the spherical objects that were used, but in terms of the soundscape that was responding to it, it worked well."

Joe, Musician, Leeds
"The sound was incredible, I'm a musician and I was astounded by the synthesis. It was a bit long but overall it was brilliant."

Ross - Liverpool
"I enjoyed the work, but it wasn't clear how much was live and how the
sound and the visuals were really working together"


Mandeep Kandalla, PJM, Huddersfield & Frances Clifford, Writer, York

Mandeep"I've been told it was the sound of an internal computer, random sounds. The bit I found interesting was when I closed my eyes I really got into it but when I opened them it was a bit intense. It was like a meditation with them closed. For me it works better just as a sound piece."


Frances "Every time I opened my eyes the graphics and colours had changed which was very attractive. I found the sound at the beginning amazing, so addictive."

Mark Hall
"I really enjoyed the music but I found the visuals a bit boring. I came though to listen to the sounds, rather than look at the visuals."


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Stills from performance


Carl D'silva
" It was like having my head blown off…it were mint. It were proper mad, an immersive experience, I liked the visuals and the audio. It didn't matter that I could see them, just the fact that they were there, it were mint!"

Jim Brow, Artist, Nottingham
"Really interesting, especially the way they used data networks as the content, as a guide to go from. I liked the first 20mins but then it seemed like they repeated themselves, but I was kinda into that even when it became annoying because that became part of it!"