EGGS in action:un-pLugged pLoden, a Ligament Lento Sarah Taylor, Pietro Polotti, Maurizio GoinaInternational Computer Music Conference 2012, Ljubljana, 10 september 2012 The work is part of a broader project denominated EGGS (Elementary Gestalts for Gesture Sonification). In EGGS, sound is meant as an effect and not as the basis of the choreography. We conceive the system as a sort of "choreophone": an audible representation of the choreographic action. Symmetrically, the body movement is a visualization of sound: the audience does not only listen to sound but also "watches" the sound in a non-cochlear way. The sounds employed in this performance come from the Freesound project (freesound.org) and were retrieved by means of the keywords slowdown, decreasing, braking. The choice of the keywords determines the overall character of the performance. Indeed, the form of the work is a long and progressive deceleration starting from explosive sounds of big slowing down engines, passing through car brakes, train brakes, and ending with delicate, almost intimate, bike braking sounds. The idea is to realize a sonic metaphor of what in economic terms is known as "degrowth", a project for a new life style, which includes ecological as well as social issues, where a bicycle represents actual concerns of mobility today. We thank the Freesound contributors: melack, dobroide, marec, daveincamas, philippe-b, audible-edge, j1987, volivieri, benboncan, tomlija. 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. CyborgAcrobat - Bêta Test VI Kajsa Bohlin, Maurizio Goina, Marie-Andrée Robitaille"Women in Circus Consortium", KTH R1 Experimental Performance Space & Presence Laboratory, Stockholm, Sweden, December 18th 2013 Description in: Elblaus, L., Goina, M., Robitaille, M. A., and Bresin, R.: 'Modes of sonic interaction in circus: Three proofs of concept'. In Proceedings of Sound and Music Computing Conference, 2014, Athens. The work is part of the Gynoïdes Project. CyborgLights - Bêta Test VI Maurizio Goina, Marie-Andrée Robitaille, Natalie Wahlberg"Women in Circus Consortium", KTH R1 Experimental Performance Space & Presence Laboratory, Stockholm, Sweden, December 18th 2013 The piece is freely adapted from 'Swish & Break' by Maurizio Goina, Pietro Polotti, and Sarah Taylor. Description in: Elblaus, L., Goina, M., Robitaille, M. A., and Bresin, R.: 'Modes of sonic interaction in circus: Three proofs of concept'. In Proceedings of Sound and Music Computing Conference, 2014, Athens. The work is part of the Gynoïdes Project. Cyr Wheel - Bêta Test VI Kajsa Bohlin, Maurizio Goina, Marie-Andrée Robitaille"Women in Circus Consortium", KTH R1 Experimental Performance Space & Presence Laboratory, Stockholm, Sweden, December 18th 2013 Description in: Elblaus, L., Goina, M., Robitaille, M. A., and Bresin, R.: 'Modes of sonic interaction in circus: Three proofs of concept'. In Proceedings of Sound and Music Computing Conference, 2014, Athens. The work is part of the Gynoïdes Project. 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.
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Il gesto che suona (The sounding gesture) |