ICTUSCORDIS performance recorded @ OpenSourceBody / Volumes lab - Paris 22.5.2021 @ 20:00
more at:
http://www.opensourcebody.eu/projects/#ictuscordis

ICTUSCORDIS performance recorded @ OpenSourceBody - Paris 22.5.2021

Live recording of the second performance @ Watermans in London 13.11.2021.

Ictuscordis performance recorded live, London - Watermans 13.11.2021

Excerpt from the ''synchronicity'' performance premiere @ Podhod Ajdovščina, Ljubljana 5.11.2022

Excerpt from ''synchronicity'' performance premiere

This is a recording of a live performance, where the main sound source is a artists heartbeat in a real time, mixed with various modulation effects. No loops or prerecorded material. Heartbeat changes the speed and intensity organically.
I explore the correlations between sound and heart / mental and physical. 
more info on: www.ictuscordis.org

Modulatio - performance recorded live @ Pocket theatre - 28.5.2019 @ 22:00

This is a recording of a live performance recorded at the pifcamp 2019.
The main sound source is an artists heartbeat in a real time, mixed with various modulation effects. No loops or prerecorded material. Heartbeat changes the speed and intensity organically.
I explore the correlations between sound and heart / mental and physical.
more info on: www.ictuscordis.org

Modulatio - performance recorded live @ PIFcamp - 5.8.2019 @ 23:00

So I tried to place the microphone to another persons heart for the first time and modulated with it in real time, it was so mesmerizing that I decided to name it as a song.. actually it is a song, where only my lovers heart and effects are used.. Thank you darling!

Ictudcordis - Lovers heart

Modulatio - performance recorded live @ CMC mladi zmaji - 25.9.2019 @ 18:00

This is a recording of a live performance recorded at the Pixxelpoint festival in Nova Gorica 2019.
The main sound source is a heartbeat in a real time, mixed with various modulation effects. No loops or prerecorded material. Heartbeat changes the speed and intensity organically.
lo-fi video @
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VjQcPqIfYY&t=395s
photo by: Matej Vidmar

Modulatio - performance recorded live @ PIXXELPOINT 2019 - 16.11.2019 @ 17:00

Recorded @ Duckling festival in Celje, Slovenia on 25.9.2020, first
photo by; Nuša Ofentavšek

ICTUSCORDIS - Modulatio - Duckling Festival 25.9.2020 - @ 19:00

Ictuscordis modulatio performance recorded @ MuSzinhaz on 23.10.2020
Photo by; Iringó Simon

Ictuscordis - Modulatio Recorded Reprise@MuSzinhaz 23.10.2020

ICTUSCORDIS is an new media performance / audio-visual laboratory with the main subject the human heart.
 Januš Aleš Luznar invites his audience to an intimate journey of his heartbeat. 

The project explores interaction between art and psychology, between physical and mental organisms. Although they speak different languages, which are difficult to translate,  
the artist searches for their coincidental and non conclusive parallels through which they communicate. 

Januš Aleš Luznar uses Biofeedback method as an artistic inspiration, so he manipulates the arousal, intensity and tempo of his heart with various mixing techniques and sounds. 
No looping or sampling is used for the performance.

He uses a custom made interface / an analog circuit preamplifier, with an electronically adapted stethoscope and manipulates with the sound of his heart in 
real time, with the use of various mixing techniques and sound processing modules and effects. Produced sound is also interpreted into a digital form, where the sound spectrum and velocity are split. 
Digital signal than triggers changes in the visualizations which results in a series of abstract rhythmical visualizations. The artist also changes the visual scenes depending on the arrangement of the sound.
All modulations in the performance are in real time. 

The heart in the performance significantly exceeds the field of metaphor, it becomes an actual, live musical and visual instrument. 

With the ICTUSCORDIS performance, artist invites the audience in his consecrated space of artistic and spiritual intimacy and urges visitors to be taken 
away by sounds and visualizations of his heart. The performance aims to awake an awareness through listening and observing. To find oneself in the heartbeat of the other is to recognize 
the connection between all.