54 Bones

Presenting 54 Bones at Onca Gallery, Brighton, part of the Brighton Digital Festival.

Jamie Moore, Olivia Louvel, Dominic Rae, Duncan Cabral 

scrubbing the sound

Digital Gestures, Human Contact

Developed in partnership with Digital Music and Sound Arts course, Fab Lab (University of Brighton) and Mi.Mu, the two installations on display in Digital Gestures, Human Contact offer an inspiring, surprising and mesmerising journey through digital motion sensor technologies, music and visuals where the audiences become interchangeably performers and observers.

54 Bones is a gesturally based performance art installation for an audience of one. It uses gestural glove controllers to trigger and manipulate sounds, using a series of gestures and movements inspired by British Sign Language. The work aims to extend the ephemeral moment at which sound, language and meaning collide, resulting in a truly intimate, human experience for each person who takes part, leaving them free to interpret what the interaction means to them.

Cogflux.01 is an interactive audio-visual installation by PRTCL Collective aiming to break the barrier between audience and performer through the use of motion sensor technology, generative audio and visuals. The piece aims to conceptually adopt the headspace one obtains whilst traveling long distances, which was inspired by Kaihōgyō, a walking meditation process used by Buddhist monks for more than 1000 years.

You can read our report 

54 Bones, ‘An interactive Sound Installation using a mi.mu glove prototype’, Digital Music & Sound Arts 

Edited video of a rehearsal of the project. 

Practising my graphic score ( 5 colors for 5 sequences), an ‘open work’: philosopher Umberto Eco underlines the importance of autonomy left to the individual performer in the way he/ she chooses to perform the work. 

We structured the performance, establishing a strategy whilst keeping some elements open and improvised. 

Jaimie soldering part 2

Welcoming accidents ‘The scratching’! Whilst performing the ‘communicate’ movement I realised I could use the glove in a different way and scroll on the sound, repeating tiny parts of the sample itself, an action similar to audio scrubbing...

scrubbing: an interaction in which a user drags a cursor or playhead across a segment of a waveform to hear it

Today we had our first test of the project in its entirety using our mi.mu glove prototype: we triggered sounds in Ableton Live over a pair of speakers, with a slide projector projecting ink thumbprints as visuals on cloth either side of the performance space. There are a few bugs to work out, but overall the performance was engaging. We have a week left before the deadline to develop sounds, articulate the gloves and finalise the performative aspect of the project.

Olivia speaking: So far we have been programming the postures/mappings and today was the first time we implemented it as a work-in-progress. As the performer, it was quite powerful to deliver the sounds with the gloves on and be facing Amanda (who kindly played for us a member of the audience) so we could test for the first time our installation set up. The simplicity of the one-to-one brought an element of communality; Maria described it as almost confessional. The different suspended clothes added a layers in which the slide projection could expand and multiply. They also created for me, the performer and the experiencer an enclosed space. Each time the slides changed, there was darkness and that gave me a moment to be out of the spot, a moment of respite.

testing...testing... the eq works... making progress

‘audience of one’, “a performance that invites one audience member to experience the piece on their own...