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musical documentation
title: Motion and Glitch Study
sub-title: for dance, visual image processing and electronic sound

year of composition: 2004
commissioned by: Inventionen 2004
realized at: Elektronisches Studio der Technische Universität Berlin

collaborative work with Kazue Ikeda (dance improvisation)

duration: ca. 15 min.
premiere:
____place: Sophiensæle, Berlin, Germany
____date: June 27, 2004
____musician: Kazue Ikeda (dance)
instrumentation:
____dance
____visual image processing (DIPS)
____electronic sound (5.1ch loudspeaker)

program note:
This work was developed for dance improvisation, digitally processed visual effects and electronic sounds. The live electronic system consists of two Macintosh computers. During the piece, dance performance on the stage is captured by a digital video camera, and is sent to the computer. The same video signal is processed variously in real time as programmed by means of DIPS (Digital Image Processing with Sound) software, then it is projected to the screen. Several data from the sound part, such as amplitude, attack and so on, are applied to the image processing parameters. Thus the visual image on the screen is deeply interacted with the dance and sound.
____The main purpose of the piece is to experiment with the relationship between the gradual/sudden transformation of a dancer’s motion, electronic glitch sounds and visual textures as results of modulation. The sound part was organized using the composer’s idiom “Sound Creature”.
____This work was commissioned by Inventionen 2004, and realized at Elektronisches Studio der Technische Universität Berlin. Also I gratefully acknowledge the support of the dancer Kazue Ikeda and DIPS developer Shu Matsuda, who made this project possible.


Motion and Glitch Study: photo by Masa Hayashi



further performance:
____concert: REMEMBERING NEWTOPIA - CREATING OUR FUTURE
____place: ZKM Karlsruhe, Germany
____date: September 21, 2007
____musician: Kazue Ikeda (dance)

____concert: REMEMBERING NEWTOPIA - CREATING OUR FUTURE
____place: Muffathalle, Munich, Germany
____date: September 17, 2007
____musician: Kazue Ikeda (dance)

____concert: REMEMBERING NEWTOPIA - CREATING OUR FUTURE
____place: Mucsarnok, Budapest, Hungary
____date: September 8, 2007
____musician: Kazue Ikeda (dance)

____concert: real-time/non real-time Electronic Music Festival
____place: GARE DU NORD, Basel, Suisse
____date: June 19, 2005
____musician: Deborah Suhner (dance)

____concert: Sound creature – DAAD Porträtkonzert: Shintaro IMAI
____place: Berlinische Galerie, Berlin, Germany
____date: December 1, 2004
____musician: Kazue Ikeda (dance)