Place/Dates: Budapest – 18 May 2009 (dancer composer workshop); Székesfehérvár – 20 June 2009, City Museum (public performance).
Description:
Workshop with Dancers and Composers and Public Performance.
This was an artistic research project aimed at developing laser controllers to be applied in network music performance. The laser beams function both as an instrument, that produce sound in response to the dancer’s gestures and movements, and simultaneously as a means of visualization and/or visual counterpoint to the movements or musical gestures of remote performers. An avatar of the remote performer is created to help to differentiate between the « voices » of the local and the remote musicians. Connecting the sound with laser animation of the remote performer’s actions helps the audience to separate the players’ sounds from each other, and to better understand their musical discourse. There is a wide range of possibilities of visualizations of the players’ gestures as well as the music created by them. Further artistic research is needed to develop the most appropriate and poetic ways for “laser interpretations” of music and human gesture/motion to exist.
In the recent phase of the project, software was written to connect and synchronize the animation of laser beams and the music controlled by the MIDI signal sent by them. A workshop session attended by dancers, programmers and composers was organized to explore the new artistic possibilities of the system.
Objective:
Artistic research, software development, animation of laser beams with the help of MAX/MSP, creating, rehearsing and presenting a new piece titled “Aliquots and Aliquants” by Andrea Szigetvári.
Results:
The first results of the project were presented to the public on the 20th of June in Székesfehérvár during the “Nights of Museums” in the Csók István Collection of the City Museum.
Target group:
Composers, music programmers and performers, contemporary art audience.
Number of participants/visitors/audience :
Participants : 4 composers, 3 performers, 2 programmers.
Audience: 400 persons.