The NOBU_LAB music is at once highly physical and rich in texture, using both analog/digital electronic instruments, and field recordings to create a dark and introspective listening experience.
An essential part of their research is focused to develop interactive system (MaxMsp ambient) which provides a gestural control of the sound through accelerometers on performer’s body. This allows an immediate corrispondence between sounds and movements as well as a greater improvisation freedom inside the performance.
The key elements in their performance are: emphasize the tactile qualities of sounds, recreate real ambients surrounding the audience and increase the perceptive side of the experience synchronizing music and visual.
Visuals and scenography that Paola designed for IN-STRUCTURE are based around the simple but highly effective idea of projecting slowly developing, abstract geometrical beams of light to a transparent canvas. In contrast to most visuals used at musical performances, these moving shapes do not seek to add a certain meaning or concrete imagery to Nobu_LAB music. They rather function as a hypnotic focal point and a way to relieve the audience from the boundaries of the performance space, made possible through the use of the tactile and illusory qualities of light projected onto a transparent structure (with the performers inside) in a quadriphonic audio space.