Place/Dates: IEM Graz – February 16-22, 2009

Description:

Impuls Workshop – Motion Enabled Live Electronics

Motion-Enabled Live Electronics (MELE) is a special approach towards live electronic music aiming at increasing the degree of the performers’ embodiment in shaping the sound processing. This approach is characterized by the combination of a high-resolution and fully 3D motion tracking system with a tracking data processing system tailored towards articulating the relationship between bodily movement and sound processing.

Objective:

Within the COMEDIA project the Impuls workshop-concert “Enacted Electronics” will be streamed over Internet to remote places, IRCAM and Medienkunstlabor, where it is interpreted according to the local context towards which it is streamed. Additional tracking data is transferred to the remote place to be interpreted for the different room situations. Ambisonics first order is used for streaming the environmental sound and higher order Ambisonics  is used for conveying the audio signals and audio imprint of the original room.

Results:

Because of different room situations at the primary place and the Medienkunstlabor and IRCAM, the interpretation has been realized with different methods, using an Ambisonics 3D-speaker system and a beam-forming Ambisonics loudspeaker for some pieces. Even though the remote place was crowded, the interpretation has been successful and the reception was clear for most of the audience, so further concerts can build on this concept.

Concert at MKL and IRCAM with audience streamed.

Target group:

Public, Technicians, musicians and composer.

Number of participants/visitors/audience :

Concert and rehearsals: 5 composers, 7 instrumentalists, 5 technicians at the primary site. Two  technicians and one artist at remote sites.

Concerts: 40 in primary site, 60 in the Medienkunstlabor site.