An Invisible Line, based on and idea by Corrado Canepa, is a collaborative project between IRCAM (Paris), Casa Paganini (Genoa) the Hochschule für Musik und Theater (Hamburg), that investigates the interconnection between human expressive full-body movement and gesture analysis as well as sound and interface design for creating shared networked social experiences. This project was implemented in the form of a two-site installation where the participants will interact so as to “get tuned together” (or “de-tuned”) via the machine’s observation of their gestural behavior.

The sound designer and composer Andrea Cera can be seen here explaining some of the ways in which the participant at each site can communicate (participants who achieve good “tuning” and  are rewarded with each others photo !) …

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