The Intimacy of Gesture, in Videos for Sigur Ros, aka Let's All Run Through...
Sigur Rós: Varúð from Sigur Rós Valtari Mystery Films on Vimeo. Perhaps there’s no science to transforming music into visual medium, any more than there is a single way to translate a poem from one...
View ArticleStories Come to Life, as the Human Element Meets Projection Mapping
Projection mapping live performance art – The Alchemy of Light by a dandypunk from a dandypunk on Vimeo. “The Alchemy of Light” makes projection mapping more than a sculptural, light-painting...
View ArticleIf Your Body Were a Moog: Experimental Voyager Sounds + Contemporary Dance...
six short stories about… from Vlaicu Golcea on Vimeo. The ubiquity of the classic subtractive synthesizer could make you think that its sounds are limited to familiar sounds. But it simply ain’t so....
View ArticleAugmented Dance, in New Daito Manabe Music Video for Nosaj Thing
Dancers become canvases for animated geometries, spawning abstract flurries of shapes and particles above them, in the computer vision-driven choreography in Nosaj Thing’s new video “Eclipse/Blue.”...
View ArticleNote from the Editor: Music for Dance, Music and Movement
My colleague, Norwegian-born graphic designer Anette K. Hansen interpreted dance visually with these drawn patterns. “Dance music” is a term that has lately become maligned all over again. And the...
View ArticleSurveilled, Controlled, Exhausted: Augmented Dance on Machine-Human...
If BODYLINE BORDERLINE takes your breath away, perhaps you can thank the fact that it takes the dancers’ breath away. Computer vision in dance is now an accepted trope, to the point of being nearly...
View ArticleDancer to Score to Animation: Coding, Decoding, and Recoding in a...
Rodrigo Carvalho’s experiments meld choreographic data with generative visualization. Photo courtesy the artist. When it comes to dance technology, it isn’t enough to team dazzling engineers with...
View ArticleA Toe-Tapping, Dancing 3D-Printed Robot Plays Music
Making Music With Poppy from Pierre Rouanet on Vimeo. It can “learn” to tap its toe and bob its head. And then it can make sounds as you move its arms. It’s a robotic interface for music – a bit like...
View ArticlePremiere: Spell Drops music video is flowing, organic electronic poetry
Paris-based artist Morgan Friedrich is a choreographer as well as a producer – and his video and music are both infused with that sense of music and body. Morgan Friedrich aka Morgan Belenguer is the...
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