Title: The embodiment of music/sound within an multimediaperformance space
Abstract: Coming from a background of new music
(audio) theatre composition / performance and
acousmatics, we examine an ongoing collaboration from
the perspective of these disciplines. Documenting the
process of exchange at each stage has allowed for a
constant analysis of methods used to facilitate our
communication and procedure of developing musical
collaboration within a larger context of a multimedia
performance project - a choreographic installation
encompassing dance, video, animation, visual design, and
virtual worlds. We will focus on our use of terminologies /
languages / systems as tools for research, as well as on the
subjective experience of working with live electronics.
Meta-technical ideas are explored with regard to the
spatial and temporal considerations involved in this kind
of process, that is to say the acoustic, the threei?½
dimensional, and the audio-visual relationship: the
absence / presence of a sound source, its physicality, its
virtuality but also the evolving relationships with the
visual elements of the performance. In this case the key
sound sources used are the bandoneon and the voice.
Combined with a wearable costume that incorporates
wired and wireless systems of amplification into its
design, plus choreographic movement, the live electronics
become, in effect, several other extended instruments in
space.
Publication Year: 2010
Publication Date: 2010-04-23
Language: en
Type: article
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