Rob Dietz is a multimedia artist specializing in audio-visual performance and installations. His work tends to fall into two distinct categories: 1. purely abstract, freeform creations (sonic and visual entities/environments); and 2. hypermedia collages where disparate sources are merged forming new relationships and yielding new incites. Rob is currently based in Bloomington, Indiana, USA and has performed throughout the eastern US.

       

Rob performs music in several groups and guises (Dizi, xeromeM, Entia, EXO, DeepSleep SoundSystem) spanning many styles from free improvisation to traditional chinese music to electronica. VJing is another current focal point with such groups as EarthBoom SoundSystem worldbeat DJs, and Basilica, a chamber grind ensemble. Rob is also the producer and video engineer for a multimedia series called Cinesthesia. Many examples of recent work may be found at CerumenSpoon.

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Non-Random Collisions (Kaleidoscoptics v01)




a live gamepad-controlled audio-visual experience for one projection screen and stereo speakers in 5 chapters:
1. Brain Surgery – 2. Pollen Nation – 3. Death Merchant – 4. Cross-Eyed Dragon – 5. Unbeatable Convenience

view and listen to one live rendition of Non-Random Collisions (21.8MB QuickTime movie)

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Meniscus

a silent excerpt of a multimedia piece for one video projection and live electro-acoustic music. video sourced from various beaches and aquariums on the west coast of the United States in Nov. 2006.

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Recent Performances:

The Memoirist – multimedia performance for toy pianos, sampling keyboard, video, frying pan, pillow and stuffed bunny. Written and performed by Phyllis Chen. Video by Rob Dietz.
Mar 31, 2007, SOFA Gallery, Indiana University School of Fine Arts, Bloomington, IN

BASILICA – amplified 7-piece chamber ensemble and multimedia group
USA East Coast Tour - Mar 9-18, 2007

Perform.Media – a transdsiciplinart festival and symposium of creativity, reseach, theory and technoculture
Sept 30, 2006, Indiana University School of Fine Arts, Bloomington, IN

Oranje – An Interactive Experience of Art and Music (as VJ Dizi)
Sept 16, 2006, Indianapolis, IN

BIASfest – 1st annual festival of new and improvised music, Bloomington Improvising Artists Series, Sept 22, 2006, Landlocked Music, Bloomington, IN

No Net – workshop/performance of group improvised music
Aug 20-21, 2005, Philadelphia, PA
Jonathan Chen, violin
Rob Dietz, computer electronics
Andy Hayleck, saw, bowed cymbals
Leonel Kaplan, trumpet
David Kendall, computer electronics
Rachel Thompson, violin
Jack Wright, saxes
Jonathan Zorn, analogue electronics