Mirror (2019)
'Mirror' is a research and development project that explores how a performance can look and sound with both a dancer and a musician controlling musical sounds through guitar and motion triggered software.
During the project, MAX MSP software was configured, tested and used to trigger and manipulate sounds in response to body movements from the dancer Rosalind Brooks in front of a web camera. These sounds were played against and filtered alongside live acoustic and electric guitar by Eric Martin Kamosi to form a performance and improvisation where both the dancer and the guitarist controlled which sounds could be heard at a given time within a musical soundscape.
During the project, MAX MSP software was configured, tested and used to trigger and manipulate sounds in response to body movements from the dancer Rosalind Brooks in front of a web camera. These sounds were played against and filtered alongside live acoustic and electric guitar by Eric Martin Kamosi to form a performance and improvisation where both the dancer and the guitarist controlled which sounds could be heard at a given time within a musical soundscape.
As this was not a normal part of the artists' professional practice, the project aimed to contribute new performance skills and techniques into how the artists collaborate to perform with music, code and movement.
The project allowed for a period of time to test out movement to sound mappings with the software for the project, test out different visual presentations of movements and musical sounds and to consider how MAX MSP software patches, music and sounds for the project could be developed to help both the dancer and the musician to perform together with motion triggered sounds. Beyond this, feedback on movement, sound and software for the project was given by the artists Stehfan Caddick, Marega Palser and Frank Naughton. Performance space and additional feedback for the project was provided by the Cardiff based arts organisation SHIFT. This provided the artists with a set of perspectives with which to consider how work could be presented to an audience interested in performance art, music and electronic art with reference to the software, music and sounds performed with in this research and development project.
How the musician and dancer create work together has been informed by this project and this is intended to lead to further work incorporating motion controlled sounds to tell stories with music and movement.
This research and development project has been kindly funded by the Arts Council of Wales.
The project allowed for a period of time to test out movement to sound mappings with the software for the project, test out different visual presentations of movements and musical sounds and to consider how MAX MSP software patches, music and sounds for the project could be developed to help both the dancer and the musician to perform together with motion triggered sounds. Beyond this, feedback on movement, sound and software for the project was given by the artists Stehfan Caddick, Marega Palser and Frank Naughton. Performance space and additional feedback for the project was provided by the Cardiff based arts organisation SHIFT. This provided the artists with a set of perspectives with which to consider how work could be presented to an audience interested in performance art, music and electronic art with reference to the software, music and sounds performed with in this research and development project.
How the musician and dancer create work together has been informed by this project and this is intended to lead to further work incorporating motion controlled sounds to tell stories with music and movement.
This research and development project has been kindly funded by the Arts Council of Wales.
