EGGS in action:Sarah Taylor, Maurizio Goina & Pietro Polotti 11th International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. Tuesday 31 May 2011, 19.00 Norwegian Academy of Music Interactive performance based on the elementary gesture sonification principles of the EGGS system. The system is used in a form that can also be applied to non-trained bodies (non-dancers). Disco Dancing is a way of moving that is totally personal and has none of the established barriers of dance language. The trajectories of the dancer's hands are analyzed and classified in elementary gestalts. The dancer triggers and modulates sounds with her body, while the laptop performers change sound palettes and mapping following a predetermined score. A graphical representation of sounds and mapping is visually projected. Swish & Break (Geschlagene-Natur) Maurizio Goina, Pietro Polotti & Sarah TaylorBarcelona, SMC 2010, 7th Sound and Music Computing Conference 22 July 2010, 22.00h: Concert around Freesound Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Sala Polivalent The work is based on the EGGS project - Elementary Gestalts for Gesture Sonification. In EGGS, sound is conceived as a representation of basic gesture elements. The sound is meant as an effect of the choreographic gesture and its expressiveness. The system becomes a sort of choreophone. The sounds employed in this performance were retrieved from the Freesound project by means of specific keywords: Swish, Nature and Break.
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Il gesto che suona (The sounding gesture) |