For unknown reasons, music and dance have been part of
human expression throughout recorded history. Alongside
this process, it came the development of new techniques to
transform the world and its forms of expression.
The technique has never moved away from art. The same joiner who built the ships also built the violins. The same metallurgy that made scaffolds also made flutes. Computing allowed the creation of the Internet, and also their own instruments for musical expression.
Motus, developed by Prof. Dr. Tiago Tavares (FEEC- Unicamp), is one of those instruments. It connects advanced techniques of image processing, artificial intelligence and human-computer interfaces in an innovative way to create music using body movements.
With Motus, experimentation of body freedom becomes part of a virtual environment where movement qualities are mirrored in sound quality. In this way, experiment with the body becomes also experiment with the sound. In this interdisciplinary process of study and experimentation, directed by the Prof. Dr. Holly Cavrell, catalyzed in this piece by the dancer Marcela Zia and the musician Erivan Duarte, new unexplored meanings and possibilities emerge. The process points to the steady unraveling of latent music in a new movement, a new interaction or a new algorithm.
Therefore, this study simultaneously evokes aspects that are often seen as separate: aesthetics, ethics and technique. These various facets of the human being come together on stage in a real "Sonic Body”.
The technique has never moved away from art. The same joiner who built the ships also built the violins. The same metallurgy that made scaffolds also made flutes. Computing allowed the creation of the Internet, and also their own instruments for musical expression.
Motus, developed by Prof. Dr. Tiago Tavares (FEEC- Unicamp), is one of those instruments. It connects advanced techniques of image processing, artificial intelligence and human-computer interfaces in an innovative way to create music using body movements.
With Motus, experimentation of body freedom becomes part of a virtual environment where movement qualities are mirrored in sound quality. In this way, experiment with the body becomes also experiment with the sound. In this interdisciplinary process of study and experimentation, directed by the Prof. Dr. Holly Cavrell, catalyzed in this piece by the dancer Marcela Zia and the musician Erivan Duarte, new unexplored meanings and possibilities emerge. The process points to the steady unraveling of latent music in a new movement, a new interaction or a new algorithm.
Therefore, this study simultaneously evokes aspects that are often seen as separate: aesthetics, ethics and technique. These various facets of the human being come together on stage in a real "Sonic Body”.
