Watch This! Expressive Movement in Electronic Music Performance

Schacher, Jan C.; Bisig, Daniel

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“…Part of field of reference of this practice is research on the signification of Gesture from the linguistic perspective (Kendon, 2004 ; McNeill, 2005 ; Gritten and King, 2006 ), and in particular research related to music making (Jensenius et al, 2010 ; Gritten and King, 2011 ). Other directly related domains are: on-body sensing for performance in the disciplines of dance (Siegel and Jacobsen, 1998 ); for music with full-body engagement (Schacher and Stoecklin, 2010 ; Todoroff, 2011 ; Schacher et al, 2016 ); remote sensing of the entire body or just the hands for musical purposes (Bevilacqua et al, 2001 ; Hantrakul and Kaczmarek, 2014 ; Tits et al, 2016 ; Jakubowski et al, 2017 ); or hand sensing with on-body sensors (empty-handed or functional triggering actions; Brown et al, 2020 ).…”

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Capture and express, question and understand: Gloves in gestural electronic music performance

Schacher

2022

Wearable Technol.

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Gesture-based musical performance with on-body sensing represents a particular case of wearable connection. Gloves and hand-sensing interfaces connected to real-time digital sound production and transformation processes enable empty-handed, expressive musical performance styles. In this article, the origins and developments of this practice as well as a specific use case are investigated. By taking the technical, cognitive, and cultural dimensions of this media performance as foundation, a reflection on the value, limitations, and opportunities of computational approaches to movement translation and analysis is carried out. The insights uncover how the multilayered, complex artistic situations produced by these performances are rich in intersections and represent potent amplifiers for investigating corporeal presence and affective engagement. This allows to identify problems and opportunities of existing research approaches and core issues to be solved in the domain of movement, music, interaction technology, and performance research.

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Capture and express, question and understand: Gloves in gestural electronic music performance

Schacher

2022

Wearable Technol.

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Beginnings and endings—dance phrase edges in an interactive dance study

Bergsland

2024

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This article describes a study exploring the expressive and creative potential of dance phrase onsets and endings in interactive dance, using an artistic research approach. After describing the context and background of interactive dance and relevant perceptual issues, the technical setup is presented, both in terms of the performance area, sensors and other hardware, and software. The main part of the article is concerned with the specific movement-sound mappings and their relation to the dancer’s movement choices in four different sections in the performance that the project resulted in, entitled Beginnings and Endings - Study I. Subsequently, the process and performance are evaluated, specifically focusing on the performer’s perspective. The most interesting points from the evaluation are then discussed with reference to the presented mappings, related movement choices, and relevant research literature. Findings include that the dancer experienced an increased awareness of beginnings and endings in different sections of the performance, that the affordances of different mappings were explored in different ways and to different degrees, and that some of this could be ascribed to a dynamic between liberation and restriction.

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Music means movement

Schacher

2015

Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Movement and Computing

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Watch This! Expressive Movement in Electronic Music Performance

Cited by 5 publications

References 14 publications

Capture and express, question and understand: Gloves in gestural electronic music performance

Capture and express, question and understand: Gloves in gestural electronic music performance

Beginnings and endings—dance phrase edges in an interactive dance study

Music means movement

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