Zero Night is an audio-visual project by intermedia artists Mike Iv and Snezhana Reizen, who are working in the fields of generative visuals and experimental electronic music.
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​Inheriting a counting system of “Arabian Nights,” Zero Night would be that of an untold story. Zero as a non-historic one, a parallel landscape, escaping grids, and mappings.
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The project dwells upon the ideas of cosmological chaos, the formation of the possible, and the transformation of the “real.”
Taking indeterminacy as a “Perpetuum mobile” for any structure, including those of the human psyche, we aim to create a fluid metastable flow, a “dynamic continuity of changeable quality.”
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The basic sound sources with which this material starts weaving its threads are noise that appears between unconnected or partly unplugged wires, radio, magnetic fields, feedback from space, and free play with various synths with a focus on sonic micro-events and polyrhythmic pulsations.
One of the key elements here is the transition through silence/noise, where each moment contains the potential for the actualisation of the new event.
The resulting canvas of sonic movements is connected to generative visuals based on the transformation of the elementary geometrical figures leading them out of the Euclidean space. These shifts are caused by programmed deformations correlating to sound waves and their full spectrum, such as frequency, resonance, amplitude, etc. The amount and complexity of interferences spawn an unpredictable sequence of audiovisual mutations. The performance exists between predeterminedness and chance, creating a unique condition for each moment of perception.
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