All Videos Tagged sensor (dance-tech) - dance-tech

An Emological Symphony: Langsamer Wendepunkt

2014-03-17T19:31:13.718Z

Demo- Video from the 100 Grad Festival, Sophiensaele

Performers: Mab Cardosa, Naemeh Shirazi, Lisa Shirin
Music/Sound: Lukas Grundmann
Arduino: Sarah Hermanutz
Costume: Johanna Schraut / Monika Dorniak
Camera: Lisa Shirin
Direction/ Concept: Monika Dorniak

The performative installation „An emological symphony“ is a lively hybrid literally joining human and technological organs. The outcome of this mixed form is a bio-musical score which is being breed -live on stage- not only by the human performers but also by the computers influence. The heart rate, breathing scale, and temperature of the performer is being measured and used as a parameter for sounds. With the action of the performer the music is changing its emotional layers, and with the modification of the soundtrack the performers reaction is being influenced. Who is the active performer within this installation- and who isn`t? And who is controlling whom?

If we regard it from the philosophical side there would be no explicit political difference between the elements on stage. As Bruno Latour explains in his manifest „Politics of nature“: „I do not claim that things speak „on their own“, since no beings, not even humans, speak on their own, but always trough something or someone else“.
Could the performers „speaking organ“ be the machine then? Or is the machine just a designed interpretation of human being- and therefor as human as the person using it? Even if we collected the scientific data by the performer we would need to question ourself which data we may rely on. Weither its the dancer controlling the intensity of movement, the designed computerprogram transforming the dancers data into a new media, or the human performer who is controlling the program- there are many stages within a process of collecting information and processing it into a „fact“. And the start or ending point is hard to define.

Within this performance artist Monika Dorniak composes a philosophic and scientific game, which is composed as a network of action and reaction. The audience may regards the performance on stage but needs to decide where it is actually taking place. By merging the traditional background of technological and musical performance with a usual dance performance the artist wants to awake the audience attention- or overwork it with the mass of data.
The work „An emological Symphony- Langsamer Wendepunkt“ is regarding current topics such as (over-) usage of technology, politics of privacy in the internet, and the impact of psychological pressure within a group.

Bonemap - Cove 2010

2010-06-14T23:51:04.871Z

Bonemap is an intermedia dance and contemporary performance project company. Cove is an interactive dance installation presented in May 2010 in Cairns, Australia.

Bonemap - Cove, the makeing of..

2010-06-14T23:48:48.426Z

The making of Cove interactive dance installation. Bonemap is an intermedia dance and contemporary performance project company. Cove is an interactive dance installation presented in May 2010 in Cairns, Australia

NPZS

2010-06-14T11:41:38.235Z

Performance dance / music / new technologies being created to mark the first collaboration between three artists from different backgrounds - the flamenco dancer Sarah Moha Ahmed Compaore percussionist and multimedia artist Ivan Chabanaud - NPZS a meeting is built around an interactive multidisciplinary of a device "real time", coupled with a principle of visibility (broadcast live on the web). In our virtual world, digitized, "under surveillance", where the individual suffers relentless intrusion of new technologies in the most intimate aspects of their daily life, how to find an area of freedom, how clear her power and individuality ? Confronting traditional flamenco with a contemporary environment, mixing languages, develop an interactive means of physical and physiological sensors, such is the challenge

Daito Manabe: electric stimulus to face - test

2009-10-07T08:36:36.585Z

Facial music, indeed. Daito Manabe has made the music the controller and his face the controlled in a new project. (As several commenters were quick to note, I got this exactly backwards when I posted this a few minutes ago: his face is the output, and the music the input.)

Daito Manabe is a Japanese-based composer, media artist, and DJ who does strange and wonderful things with inputs. This time, he’s hooked up electrical outputs to his face, so multimedia software Max/MSP, his usual tool of choice, can sequence muscle movements via electrical pulses transmitted directly to the surface of his face.
(Text by Peter Kirn, taken from: http://createdigitalmusic.com/2008/10/27/daito-manabe-makes-music-with-parts-of-his-face/)