motion capture transformations: viola mocap body http://www.alansondheim.org/violabody.jpg (a.r. by Will Pappenheimer) http://www.alansondheim.org/violabody.mp3 think of playing viola with mocap markers on the bow, fingers, arms, face, chest, and legs (i.e. holding it in a non-western position). then consider modifying the markers' positions and/or the marker tags - the result is a supple sonic topological manifold integrating body and instrument in an astonishing and untoward style. i can only imagine the complex dynamics of the resulting organism and organic production. so this playing is an example of what might be achieved live and in situ with markers and flat black mocap uniforms. this would be part of the input, the sound. i'd be the subject and object, performer and cartographer, transforming the viola into a potentially inverted closed and unknown topology with algebraic catastrophes, potential "foam" mappings, and the positions slipped and shifted within and without unknown apparitions. this particular improvisation involves wide-ranging finger positions and dynamic movement which would register well with the digital mapping software. the bow is moved rapidly and wildly, often churning across all four strings in quick succession; the entire fingerboard is used. i can only imagine the configurations that will appear as a result - and imagine them as well mapped onto an unknown organism carrying the continuously transformed sensory input into an unknown, problematic, and possibly catastrophic future. - to be hopefully performed, created, and documented in a week or so at New Jersey Institute of Technology - _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] https://lists.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
