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Benoît Maubrey is the director of DIE AUDIO GRUPPE a Berlin-based art group that build and perform with electronic clothes (past examples: AUDIO BALLERINAS, AUDIO GEISHAS --see web site). Basically these are site-specific electro-acoustic clothes and dresses (equipped with amplifiers and loudspeakers) that create sounds by interacting with their environment. In the AUDIO PEACOCKS project wearable electronic instruments are constructed from polycarbonat plexiglass material shaped into a peacock's fan-like plumage. The plexiglass surface is equipped with 16 loudspeakers (150 watts power), amplifiers, and rechargeable 12 volt batteries. The "audio-plumage" is highly directional and functions like an electroacoustic radar dish -- esthetically it has much in common with the way a peacock parades itself in front of the pea-hen (the audience). An Audio Peacock can either amplify its own electronic instruments or voice using a built-in microphone, sampler, and filters (loop + pitch). The Peacock can also receive sounds from outside sources via transmitter/receiver and disseminate them site-specifically in a space by orienting his high-tech "plumage". VIDEO PEACOCK is the most recent performance project from Benoit Maubrey. An Audio Peacock costume out of white plexiglass is used as a mobile projection screen. In this audio-visual performance the electro-acoustic quality of a Peacock is visually enhanced via a video projector. Video-taped images are projected simultaneously to the sounds on the costume. This opens up entirely new possibilities: live transmissions and blogs from the Internet can be "worn" on the costume. In a more spectacular sense the Peacock's own real-time image can be projected live onto his costume as a form of "video-feedback". Additionally via computer visual software his own voice and sounds can be used to manipulate the projected images.
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copyright: Benoit Maubrey