Erdem, Cagri
Schia, Katja Henriksen
Jensenius, Alexander Refsum
2019-06-01
This paper describes the process of developing a shared instrument for music--dance performance, with a particular focus on exploring the boundaries between standstill vs motion, and silence vs sound. The piece Vrengt grew from the idea of enabling a true partnership between a musician and a dancer, developing an instrument that would allow for active co-performance. Using a participatory design approach, we worked with sonification as a tool for systematically exploring the dancer's bodily expressions. The exploration used a "spatiotemporal matrix," with a particular focus on sonic microinteraction. In the final performance, two Myo armbands were used for capturing muscle activity of the arm and leg of the dancer, together with a wireless headset microphone capturing the sound of breathing. In the paper we reflect on multi-user instrument paradigms, discuss our approach to creating a shared instrument using sonification as a tool for the sound design, and reflect on the performers' subjective evaluation of the instrument.
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3672918
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3672917
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International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression, Porto Alegre, Brazil
Vrengt: A Shared Body-Machine Instrument for Music-Dance Performance
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