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Suguro Gotos performance leaves me feeling anxious. Perhaps it is because these sort of images are not generally seen in this context. It is a surreal kind of feel. I can't tell if the dancer at the end is controlling the sounds with their body or are just dancing. It appears precise to the sounds. I don't know if I get the symbolic nature of the piece. I think it may have something to do with prevalence of technology in our day to day lives.
I was lucky to read his website before watching the performance. I have seen other artists use technology to transform the body's motion into sound and image. It is interesting to see people doing that sort of performance, because of the interplay between the performer and the resulting sound and video. It's like being able to see the puppeteer in the act of manipulating the puppet.
The bodysuit was the most intriguing piece from his site. All of his work was interesting, but that is the one that grabbed me. I don't know for sure, but there seems to be a lot of intent behind his live performance. I was not sure how random the images and sounds were that he was drawing from. He mentioned that he wanted to be able to incorporate sweeping motions with his body to enable the audience to see what he was doing. I would like to see if there were subtler motions that could be made to change different elements of the piece. Such as slight wrist movements changing tempo and octave, or even the hue and speed of video.
All in all I was glad to have heard of this guy. It has some similarities to what I have been thinking about for capstone.
As for the video itself I found myself waiting for it to really kick into gear. To have some sort of driving beat and move into something faster and less ambient. Its the musician in me that wanted it to become more musical and less artistic i suppose.
On the website the thing that struck me most was a project he did named RoboticMusic - Percussion Robots. In the project he made robots that could play the drums. The idea behind it is very interesting because by having robots playing there is an ability to play music that humans can not. For instance a robot would have no problem playing a 64th note, or even a 128th note, which humans cant play (unless the tempo was 1 or something very very small). So by making these robots he is able to create music that has not been able to exist in the past.
In response to what chris said about how robots are creating drum beats that humans cant. But humans are creating beat. They build and program the robot. So this suit in the performance and this drummer robot are really just extensions of humans. And yes this music has not been able to exist in the past but this is what is always happening. We are always inventing and improving. We have found our human limitations and are using technologies like robots and this suit to help us invent more.
I had a good conversation today about electronic music. For the most part electronic music is almost non existent in this part of the world. Every country that has “soccer” as there national sport has a fledgling electronic music scene. America is still squabbling about record deals and buy up analog guitars and acoustic drums. We are in the past musically. This being said electronic music is starting to come into its own in this country. I am not talking about any large-scale techno group. I am talking about on an individual scale more people are experimenting with digital instruments. Who didn’t mess around with fruity loops a few years back? I am saying the future is there and if we can bring our musical soul into electronic music then we would really have something.
On another note I haven’t found any better way to make great music then with traditional music. Digital instruments are a little too perfect.
This was a very interesting piece, because it seemed to tie a lot of what we've been discussing and research I have been doing. The idea of the body effecting the sound it quite impressive to watch, the way the 'dancer' moves in itself is a form of art, and to have that effect the sound created is intriguing. It makes me think back to Katrina McPherson's piece and dance and the moving image. I also pondered the use of images,adn their relationship to the sounds and movement. It appears like a form of vjing and a real performance piece
While I do have the same feelings that Jacob and Chris did before me about being a bit anxious with the piece, when the dancers were introduced to the camera it really brought things together and made me satisfied.
I've seen these sort of performances before, as mentioned by Isaac, where body motion is used to drive sound and video in a piece (or any sort of sensory element in a project). This was a very interesting performance to watch because, especially around the 25:00 minute area, the dancer seemed to be themed to the audio and video playing. It reminded me of something out of a 90s VR or space simulated piece. I really wish I could have been present to see this piece because I feel like seeing it from afar really takes away from it. While it acts as a display of Suguro Goto's work, being able to see the physical dancer as well as the interesting visual element would have made the piece more complete for me.
One quick comment on the Chris and Caroline discussion. I agree with both of you on this issue of human capability in music (Chris' reference to a 64th or 128th note) as well as Caroline's statement that humans are creating the music and therefore performing these notes.
What we have to ask ourselves here is are the humans really creating the cabability of performing notes like this, or is it acting as an extension of our intelligence in mathematics? What I mean to say is, a human may not be able to physically perform like these robots can but rather they can do the math and plug in a value that allows the robot to do it. Does this qualify as a human creating the music, or are we just the brains behind the operation because we cannot physically perform it?
The idea behind the bodysuit is quite amazing. This can transform dance into a whole different art form. That's a pretty powerful performance tool to be able to directly effect video and audio through movement. Any live performance is so much more engaging and exciting then any movie, no matter how big the screen or how amazing the audio. To be able to combine all of those things appeals to a greater audience and is visually more entertaining. I would love to try out the bodysuit. This is the type of art that I find especially interesting because of the collaboration.
The thing that I enjoyed most about this performance was it's originality and creativity. I really liked how there were projections of a body before the actual body suit was introduced, this in itself is an original type of foreshadowing. When the body suit is first seen, after the long period of almost pure silence and darkness, a small light slowly illuminates to show the body suit. The body suit itself reminded me of an older version space suit. In general, the very ambient noises along with the one light on the suit reminded me of Stanley Kubrick's "A Space Odyssey". Just the overall image of the body suit and sounds remind me of several scenes from that film.
Just as Issac said, I would love to see the body suit take a more demanding role to further control the sounds and visuals. With the suit being able to control the sounds and/or visuals with smaller movements, such as flicks of the wrist and/or fingers for example, the piece could go from just a performance to and interactive performance. The suit could be tried on by willing individuals and the audiences could then experiment and create their own performances.
I checked out the 25 minute area and was really impressed with the performance the guy put on. It seemed choreographed and the resulting audio was pretty brilliant. I also really enjoyed the visuals being played throughout even though it was kind of strange that the performance portion wasn't working. And I totally agree that this left me feeling anxious.
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