Bylta er samstarfsverkefni Tinnu og Alli Hoag, glerlistakonu. Vinnustofur Byltu verkefnisins hafa farið fram í haust með nemendum við glerdeild myndlistardeildar Bowling Green State University í Ohio, USA. Bylta er interaktífur tónlistargjörningur með glerblæstri, er leiðir tóna og hljóma og rauntímatónsmíð í gegnum hreyfingar glerblásarana. Tinna dvelur í Bowling Green dagana 1.-16. desember þar sem unnið verður að Byltu, en Tinna heldur jafnframt fyrirlestra í myndlistardeild og tónsmíðadeild háskólans, þar sem hún kennir einnig tónsmíðanemendum. Verkefninu lýkur með live performans í The Corning Museum of Glas í NY, þann 17. desember í seríunni 2300° í Amphitheater Hot Shop frá kl: 18-20 með Tinnu, Alli og nemendum glerlistadeildar Bowling Green.
Örlítið um Byltu:
Icebergs are born through a cataclysmic collision of two states of the same matter between ice and sea. Inspired by the tumultuous plunge of unstable glacial fragments into the ocean below, the Icelandic term Bylta means “a heavy blow, overturn, roll, or tumble about”. Bylta is a performance fueled by the purpose to reveal and celebrate the unstable endpoints of creativity that fuels both musical and visual art. Performance artist and pianist Tinna Thorsteinsdóttir and visual artist Alli Hoag have collaborated with students and alumni from Bowling Green State University to answer the questions of “How can a musical performance create a physical residue?” “In what ways can we make glass and music collide?”. To facilitate this exercise in synesthesia, we have physically interconnected these creative practices through teaming up with the Calmus project. In the new iPad application program CalmusGlass, real time musical notation is created from video input, in this case of the brightness and movement of molten glass. We will also utilize the semi-conductive properties of glass to “play” a composition through the use of the digital iPad application platform of the Makey Makey. Accompanied by real time looping of sounds collected from the natural forming and cracking of the glass during the performance, both physical and musical compositions will express the energy released when these creative processes converge.