Place/Dates: Graz 22-25 May 2010

Description:

Motion Enabled Live Electronics (MELE) : “the game”

This is the result of work by Sara Venuti (dancer) und David Pirrò (computer musicician) and a continuation of the project Motion-Enabled Live Electronics (MELE) project from 2009 with a special approach towards live electronic music aiming to achieve an increase of the degree of the performer’s 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 to articulate the relationship between bodily movement and sound processing. With the game a further development was made where an interactive stage also controls the composition depending on the motion of dancer, streamed over local area network.

Objective:

This is a further piece in the series of MELE that concentrates on the aspect of streamed motion data. Four works have been made to explore this aspect.

Results:

Streamed motion data from dancers were used to control an audio composition where the dancer can interact with a virtual sound representation of the network and perform in a concert at IEM.

Concert at CUBE IEM.

Target group:

General public, technicians, musicians and composers.

Number of participants/visitors/audience :

Concert and rehearsals: 1 composer, 2 instrumentalist/dancer

Concerts: 40 in CUBE