Self and Self Portraits

Exploring the tension between digital and tangible representations of self, the movements of a performer produce sound through interaction with a digital soundscape and large-scale acoustic spatial instrument.

The dancer inhabits the acoustic and tangible instrument, generating sounds that are captured in real-time and processed using granular synthesis to become a digital soundscape, a fragmented memory of the acoustic installation. This digital soundscape is also activated by the dancer through the use of motion-capture technology, allowing their movements to generate sound textures. These representations become acoustic and digital self-portraits of the dancer and create an ambivalent duet between acoustic tangible space and fragmented digital memory.