Dear all,
A novel piece for the Xth Sense [1], my visceral biophysical
instrument, was commissioned by ECPNM (European Conference of Promoters
of New Music), in occasion of the finals of the 5th Live Electronic Music Project Competition, during the ISCM World New Music Days [2].
The new work, titled "Ominous", is ready to be premiered tomorrow at De Singel concert hall, in Atwerp, BE.
"Ominous is a sculpture of incarnated sound... The performance embodies, before the audience, the metaphor of an
invisible and unknown object enclosed in my hands. This is made of
malleable sonic matter. Similarly to a mime, I model the object in the
empty space by means of whole-body gestures. The natural sound of my muscles and its virtual counterpart blend together into an unstable sonic object... The listeners see through sound the sculpture which their sight cannot perceive."
Tags: multidimensional gesture, machine learning, muscle sounds, visceral embodiment.
Read more at:
http://marcodonnarumma.com/works/ominous/
Also on stage tomorrow John Eckhardt, one of the most fascinating performers of the contemporary music scene.
fingers crossed!
best wishes,
[1] http://res.marcodonnarumma.com/projects/xth-sense
[2] http://goo.gl/a7B6g
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Marco Donnarumma
New Media + Sonic Arts Practitioner, Performer, Teacher, Director.
Embodied Audio-Visual Interaction Research Team.
Department of Computing, Goldsmiths University of London
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