Performative Environments in the Arts Research Laboratory - PEARL

                                                                Magnetic Dance
 

The performance "Magnetic Dance" is a telematic dance performance, where dancers in different locations use their movements to weave the rhythm and melody of the music through their movements measured by wearable wireless sensors. Current locations planned for performance are Tokyo (in cooperation with the Department of Intermedia Art at the Tokyo University of the Arts), Brussels, and Athens (in cooperation with the National Observatory of Athens). In each location, a sound synthesis algorithm is used to produce the sound locally, by combining the data received at all locations in the performance. The idea of remotely coordinating rhythmic patterns through movement is inspired by the experiments made to confirm John Stewart Bell's theorem explaining entanglement phenomena in quantum mechanics and by traditional African music performance practices as well as references to the relationship between song and weaving in early Greek and Mesopotamian cultures.