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In occasion of the exhibition Dark Bodies Dark Identities, curated by Alfredo Ciannameo, Spektrum Berlin presents a workshop by Marco Donnarumma on the XTH Sense, an award-winning biophysical musical instrument made completely in Pure Data.

*When: 18-19 March 2017 (9am to 4:30pm)

*Where: Spektrum, Bürknerstraße 12, 12047 Berlin

*Cost: 100 euro + 20 euro materials

*Registration and more info: http://spektrumberlin.de/events/detail/xth-sense-biophysical-music.html

This weekend course offers hands-on experience and theoretical training in the performance of biophysical music and visuals with the XTH Sense. Biophysical music is an emerging form of live art based on a combination of physiological technology, markedly physical performance, and music computing.

Workshop participants will build from scratch their own wearable bioacoustic sensors; learn how to analyze and map the data from their muscle and body movements to generate music and visuals; and experiment with live processing of the sounds from their own bodies. Attention will also be paid to aesthetic considerations when using the XTH Sense in artistic contexts.

At the end of the workshop, participants will take home the XTH Sense they built, as well as the related software for their own continued creative use.

*Topics covered in the workshop include:

• Theoretical background on the state of art of gestural control of music
• Introduction to the XTH Sense framework (technical overview, capabilities)
• Building the boiacoustic sensor
• An introduction to the open source artistic programming language

PureData, tips and tricks

• Explorations of bioacoustic sound design capabilities
• Building audio modules and signal processing chains
• Aesthetics of bioacoustic sensor-based performance
• Mapping muscle energy to control Ableton, Renoise, Bitwig, video software
• Designing an aesthetic vocabulary for body-sensor performance

*About the instructor:

Marco Donnarumma is an artist and scholar. He distinguishes himself by his use of emerging technology to deliver body performances that are at once intimate and powerful, oneiric and uncompromising, sensual and confrontational. Working with biotechnology, biophysical sensing, and more recently artificial intelligence and neurorobotics, Donnarumma expresses the chimerical nature of the body with a new and unsettling intensity. He has won several awards and performed in over 60 countries worldwide. His writings are published by MIT Press, Springer and Oxford University, among others. Currently, Donnarumma is a Research Fellow at Berlin University of the Arts in partnership with the Neurorobotics Research Laboratory at Beuth U. Berlin.

-- Marco Donnarumma, Ph.D

*Performing bodies, sound and machines**Universität der Künste Berlin* http://marcodonnarumma.com

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