Metroscan

Metroscan is a futuristic audiovisual work concerned with the metropolis, its informational tempo, the multipolarity of events and other post-urban vectors. Its title refers to the layered origin of metro: measure, metropolis, movement and transport.

These terms are scanned into a dense field of sound and image: a compressed informational avalanche of the city, recast through digital technologies into a constantly shifting aesthetic result.

The music moves across a wide frequency range, often balancing between experimental sound and pulsing electronic forms. Line and point become the basic elements of the work, appearing both in the sound structure and in the visual field. The image is generated in real time from sound data, producing rapid transitions, saturated visual density and a deliberately unstable flow.

The work was first presented in Vilnius in 2010 as part of the Vilnius Festivals project Garsovaizdis-2. It was later performed at festivals in Europe and beyond, including Streaming in The Hague, Punto de Encuentro in Valencia, Eclectica in Tartu, Frischzelle at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne, Streetwaves in Gdansk and KonventZero in Spain.

Metroscan has also been performed in Tokyo and Osaka, Hong Kong, China and India, marking some of the first presentations of Lithuanian audiovisual art in these contexts. In 2017 the project was presented at Experimental Intermedia in New York and at the Osmosis audiovisual art festival in Taipei.