BASSO IMAGES, audio visual performances

The Basso Images project is an improvised audio/visual experience that is realized in real time, through collaboration between video artist and double bassist/composer. The video artist creates a visual montage from a variety of original video footage, including local images, and is processed and mixed in the moment, responding to the sounds produced by the double bassist/composer. The double bassist creates an audio environment through the real-time digital processing of the sounds produced on the double bass. This creates a unique, mesmerizing, symbiotic relationship that contributes to a truly immersive artwork.


BASSO IMAGES (Urbana/Champaign Mix)
Brad Decker and Zlatko Ćosić
University of Illinois, Music Building Auditorium, Urbana-Champaign
October 26, 2017

:: BASSO IMAGES (Urbana/Champaign Mix) (9:00)   [VIDEO]
:: KARMA IS A CRUEL MISTRESS (7:30)   [VIDEO]
:: RICERCAR IN GREEN (7:00)   [VIDEO]



BASSO IMAGES (St. Louis Mix)
Brad Decker and Zlatko Ćosić
Presented by HEARding Cats Collective
The Luminary, November 21, 2015 at 7:30pm

:: BASSO IMAGES (St. Louis Mix_highlights) (5:00)   [VIDEO]
:: BASSO IMAGES (St. Louis Mix_full) (50:00)   [VIDEO]
:: BASSO IMAGES (St. Louis Mix)   [PHOTOS]



BASSO IMAGES (NYC EMF Mix)
Brad Decker and Zlatko Ćosić
New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival, Abrons Arts Center, New York City, 1:30 pm and 10:30 pm, June 5, 2014

:: BASSO IMAGES (NYC EMF Mix, session 1) (14:20)   [VIDEO]
:: BASSO IMAGES (NYC EMF Mix, session 2) (15:35)   [VIDEO]



BASSO IMAGES (NYC Harvestworks Mix)
Brad Decker and Zlatko Ćosić
Harvestworks, New York City, 9 pm, June 4, 2014

:: BASSO IMAGES (NYC Harvestworks Mix) (30:40)   [VIDEO]



BASSO IMAGES (Bloomington Mix)
Brad Decker and Zlatko Ćosić
Westbrook Auditorium, Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, IL
February 22, 2014

:: Brad Decker - double bass and computer
:: David Vayo - piano
:: Zlatko Ćosić - videos, live processing and projections
:: Rachel Ćosić - performance documentation

:: IWU News - Guest Artists to Perform on Saturday, February 22

:: BASSO IMAGES (Bloomington Mix) (44:00)   [VIDEO]



BASSO IMAGES (Charleston Mix)
Brad Decker and Zlatko Ćosić
Tarble Arts Center, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL
September 15, 2012

:: BASSO IMAGES (Charleston Mix) (45:00)   [VIDEO]
:: BASSO IMAGES (Charleston Mix) (9:00)   [VIDEO]

Video artist Zlatko Ćosić (Washington University/Webster University, St. Louis) and composer Brad Decker (Eastern Illinois University) perform outdoors in the ampitheater at Tarble Arts Center, Eastern Illinois University, on Sept. 15, 2012. All video is original footage shot by Ćosić, and mixed and processed in real time and improvised on the spot. All music is performed by Brad Decker on double bass, and mixed and processed live using a laptop computer running Max/MSP. It was performed live in the “pit” amphitheater at the art museum, and images were projected on to the white brick walls.