Rant/RantBack - Peter Sinclair and GH Hovagimyan 2003 - 2004

This piece is an experimental performance work. Peter Sinclair created a special interface to sample voice input, manipulate it and send it back into the genral audio mix in real time. GH projects the ramblings of a borderline schizoid personalty type who can't tell the difference between media news information, gossip and paranoid rumors. The piece is a techno driven word or poetry jam that resembles the ranting of a delusional street person. GH prepared the content by clipping news articles and posting them on a web in a blog called. Exhibited

In some cases (ESAAIX, Split New Ledia Festival) Peter Sinclair was on stage in the event venue while GH was at his loft in New York receiving the remixed sounds of his own ranting via streaming and responding, jamming off them in a return stream.

2003 : La Gaîté de Lyrique, Paris,France Split New Media Festival - Split, Croatia ESAAIX

2004 : Noordezon Festival, Groningen, NL STEIM, Amsterdam, NL Postmasters Gallery, New York City

Refs Peter Sinclair's and GH Hovagimyan's collaborative works : GH Hovagimyan (home page) https://gh.nujus.net/overview

Zacks, Stephen. 2022. G.H. Hovagimyan: Situationist Funhouse. Goff Books. ISBN 978-1-951541-99-6