WHAT A COOL IDEA

brooke invited me to a modern dance performance last night called Extraction. it was staged at divadlo ponec in zizkov.

the production team had installed sensors around the stage that were apparently capturing the dancers movements and tranlsating them into sounds programmed by a computer in the back.

at one point, all the music suddenly dissappeared and was replaced by a looped recording of the sounds of the dancers moving across the stage. with each pass of the 4-5 second loop, the recording would build upon itself, gradually becoming a virtual cacophony of arms and legs sweeping the floor. when it was approaching the level of white noise, it quickly dissolved back into various low pads and synths.

what a cool idea.