Tremorrag is an audio-visual performance inspired by synesthetic principles of sound, image, and movement. The duo, Pascal Battus and Angie Eng explore the subtlety of movement and the poetics of gesture with vibrational drawing.They use traditional pen drawing and digital design on a drawing tablet with video effects processing. The projected video is a mix between their black and white drawings and animations. The animations resemble early experimental filmmakers such as Len Lye, Viking Eggeling, Oskar Fischinger, as well as artists: Henri Michaux, Cy Twombly, and Frank Stella.

Using a micro-camera attached to his thumb, Battus captures extreme close-ups that play with perspective and scale.  The process is revealed to the audience using a second camera. Wider shots focus on his hand that holds the pen while the other moves the two pickup mics along with the paper.  With 2 camera angles, Battus can switch between two spaces that heighten our awareness of the process as well as traveling to the virtual where one is absorbed by the abstract landscapes. Battus does not control visual composition but relies on small motors that vibrate the paper to navigate the pen.  Chance is a strong element of his visual composition, and each drawing is very different each time it is performed.

Tremorrag, 2010-2014
Live drawing performance duo
Sound/Video: Pascal Battus and Angie Eng
TRT: 30-45minutes