Last week, my friend and collaborator Jessica Mumford asked me to come move in the motion-analysis driven sonic environment the Enactive Arts group at AME has developed over the past few years as part of documentation for a conference she's currently presenting at. She edited bits of this into a shorter piece, also including other movers, for presentation at that conference. She's given me permission to share some of my motion in its raw form, however, so here it is: Yours' Truly moving in Responses Environment #1:
Obviously, I'm not trained as a mover (we like the term "mover" rather than "dancer" for a variety of reasons) -- I don't do nearly enough with my lower body, or the space behind me. I'm really performing motion for the system (trying to get certain sound qualities, to varying degrees of success) rather than an audience. It's incredible to see someone who moves more like a dancer in here, but, well, you get me. All the same, the rig is a blast to "dance" in.
If there's interest, I can dig up the academic papers where this work is discussed -- it's all out there, but I didn't work on the papers so I don't have the citations handy.
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Reply #2 on : Wed June 25, 2008, 02:22:59