| Murmur
Participants:
Marc Ainger, Department of Music/ACCAD
Norah Zuniga-Shaw, Department of Dance/ACCAD
Matthew Lewis, ACCAD
Graduate Students:
Benjamin Schroeder
- Premiered 2/07 at the DragonFly in Columbus, Ohio
- Performed 8/07 in Copenhagen, Denmark at the PLEX Theater
with performers from the New Circus
Murmur
is an exploration of sonic locative immersion. It plays with
the notion of sensing place through sound and the construction
of place (a cartographic act) through a performer’s
past and present actions. Murmur seeks to enact a kind of
virtuality grounded in experience-the visceral memories sensed
through the sounds we encounter and imagine in our journeys
through lived environments. The places we have been reside
in our tissue and can be re-experienced and re-enacted through
sound.
Murmur
is built around an infrared vision system that tracks performers’
location in three-dimensional space. Position, speed, and
the amount of performers’ actions control various aspects
of the (multi-channel) sound. Sounds and voices recorded from
various locations throughout the world mapped to the performance
space. The software used for the performance is the ubiquitous
Max/MSP/Jitter.
Murmur
was developed by Marc Ainger, Norah Zuniga-Shaw, and Matthew
Lewis at the Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design
(ACCAD) of the Ohio State University, supported by the OSU
Arts and Humanities Seed Grant program as a part of a series
by Zuniga-Shaw entitled "The Living Map".
The
August performance of Murmur was the result of a week–long
residency with the circus performers at the International
Music Conference 2007 in Copenhagen. For this performance
recent field recordings were gathered in locations throughout
Copenhagen and mixed with recordings from other locations
throughout the world.
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