Dancer: Alayna Wiley
Composition, Programming and Laptop performance: Hunter McCurry

Program Notes:
Every day we interact with the digital world of computers and electronic media. We may consider this realm to be distinct from our experience in the physical world. Excursion Into Mixed Reality explores the permeable boundary between these ‘realities’ by harnessing physical motion to create meaningful digital representations. The dancer becomes the musical performer of a meta-instrument that extends bodily gestures into the realms of sound and video. Through a form of play, the dancer navigates the constantly shifting and parameterized digital environments that comprise the work. By linking different forms of media, the piece reveals underlying gestural similarities between motion, imagery and sound.

Project Details: This software for this piece was made using Processing and MaxMSP. Processing is responsible for analyzing video data input and projecting video. Processing also sends data over OSC to MaxMSP which creates the sounds using a granular synthesis module. All sound and video is created in real time by the dancer/system interaction - without a dancer the piece would be black and silent.

Performance Details:
This performance took place at the 2010 Intermedia Festival of Telematic Arts in Indianapolis, Indiana.