Unity, 2019

live audiovisual experience

Unity is a live audio visual / light installation performance series based on equally strong audio and visual elements, aiming to create a resonating, affective experience that references the roots and recent re-emergence of electronic music and club culture as agents for the formation of temporary communities; ultimately, to bring people closer through art and contribute to shifting their perception of the world around them and how they engage with it. Unity is created around City Stage  - a custom-made light installation/tool designed and produced as a craft-friendly product with a post-industrial design approach. 

Unity I, 2019

For Unity’s first edition, Yılmaz collaborated with established electronic music producer from Thessaloniki/Greece, AND.ID. The two artists perform live side by side within the environment activated by light and music. The performance is built on several cycles of construction and deconstruction of sound and light, producing an unexpected variety of music and visual forms. AND.ID’s music can be heard as a showcase for the richness of electronic music, giving us upbeat, softer or epic moments throughout the 60 mins. performance. While Bilal Yılmaz’s light installation adds an autonomous narrative, a fluctuating choreography of light that moves in and out of sync to the music. Analogue and digital systems are combined in the production and delivery of both music and visuals, creating a pre- and post-digital universe, where the sensorial and the cognitive intuitively meet. Thanks to its equally strong audio and visual parts, the entire experience appeals to a variety of audiences. And thanks to the versatility of the light installation, it can take different forms and shapes, and can be adapted to a variety of stages and locations (indoors and outdoors).

Unity - live audio visual experience
Concept: Bilal Yılmaz, Lydia Chatziiakovou
Light Installation (design and programming): Bilal Yılmaz