Bodyscapes
Navigation
Bodyscapes
Intermedial Composition, Dance, Choreography, Live-Electronics, Motion-Tracking
Gerhard Eckel, Valentina Moar, David Pirrò
Graz (Austria), 2009
Bodyscapes is the result of a collective research and creation involving dance, choreography, composition, as well as sound and interaction design aiming at exploring the various facets of an ecology of bodily movement and sound. An underlying assumption is that both elements have a high potential to interlink. In Bodyscapes they engage in a symbiotic relation which is based on a process of giving and taking, one element complementing the other, both forming a whole - one cannot be without the other. The piece presents different spaces of possible relationships between movement and sound (bodyscapes), each baring a particular recognizable characteristic and identity. Particular attention has been paid to identifying the most archetypical of these relationships. Bodyscapes has been realized by Valentina Moar (dance, improvisation, and choreography), Gerhard Eckel, and David Pirrò (composition, live electronics, interaction design, and software development) in the context of the artistic and scholarly research project Embodied Generative Music.