http://www.schwelle.org/
Schwelle is a media performance work in two acts by Chris Salter in collaboration with Michael Schumacher. The two part, evening length project uses a combination of High Definition image and multi-channel sound, dance theater and cutting edge sensing technologies to examine the threshold states one experiences at the edge of trance, sleep and death.
chwelle is a collaboration between artists and researchers from cultural and scientific institutions in Canada, Germany, Holland, China, and the USA.

Concept/Direction: Chris Salter

Part I
Premiere: Elektra Festival, Montreal, QC, Mai 2006
Concept/Direction/HD Video/Sound: Chris Salter
Collaboration Sound: Daniel Moody-Grigsby and Philip Viel

Part II
Premiere: Tesla/Transmediale 2007, Berlin, February 2007
Concept/Direction: Chris Salter, in collaboration with Michael Schumacher
Dramaturgy: Heidi Gilpin
Lighting Design: Lea Xiao
Lighting Interaction Design: Harry Smoak
Sound Design and Programming: Marije Baalman, Daniel Moody- Grigsby, Chris Salter, Philip Viel
Interaction Design/Sensing Systems: Marije Baalman
Objects: Thomas Spier, Flora Luna
Production Stage Manager/Technical Director: Harry Smoak
Production Assistants: Daniel Wessolek, Alexander Wilson, Brett Bergmann