Bill Thibault
SPLENDOR GENERATOR brings together electronic music and live graphics to create a synergistic immersive environment for the audience. It is a unique blend of idiosyncratic and diverse performers: Tim Perkis - electronics ; Xopher Davidson [antimatter] - electronics, oscillations, phase; Jon Leidecker - electronics; Bill Thibault - live graphics.
Live, multichannel projections react to the musicians' audio in real time, controlling aspects of a physics-based motion algorithm. Visuals and music performed together are usually only vaguely interdependent, or uses pre-recorded visuals to which the music tries to conform. Instead, SPLENDOR GENERATOR puts visuals on an equal footing with music, capable of creating improvised and intimate interactions between performers.
Bill Thibault is a computer artist born in New Orleans and living in the East Bay. He has performed in and around the Bay Area since 1991. He worked as an educator at Cal State East Bay for many years, and now consults on immersive projection technologies. Writing his own software, his visuals are unique, eschewing video playback to use interactive geometric and captured 3D imagery. The visuals respond to audio input while being directed by Thibault to create a "chamber-music-like intimacy...between sound a
Bill Thibault