Creative Media and Performance 2

This was an instillation piece, with the purpose to expose a snippet of the story of Alice in wonderland. 6 scenes in total were displayed on the instillation: 1. Alice falling down the rabbit hole 2. The tea party with the Mad Hatter, Door mouse, March Hare and Alice 3. The white Rabbit frantically hopping around checking his watch 4. Alice growing and shrinking when swallowing the food and drink labelled 'eat me/ drink me' 5. The Queen of hearts commanding her soldiers with 'Off with his head!' 6. Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee dancing around together Rabbit Mapping Trial 1: Separate shapes created a less precisely mapped image, as they had to be moved individually back together to form the original image. Trail 2: When all shapes were created within a composite folder, they kept their positions among each other and therefore moved altogether. This meant that when it was mapped onto the playing card cut to the same shape, it fit perfectly,...

Tom Dale Company- 'Step Sonic' 'Digital soundscapes triggered by motion' (Dale, 2019) The piece explores the collaboration between the dancers bodies, and the creation of digital music, through live movement. Contact and shotgun microphones pick up non-diegetic sounds produced from movement, sampling them to create audio. https://vimeo.com/214642770  This was interesting to explore as inspiration, as it is the dancers themselves that create the initial sounds, i.e. stamping, rather than responding to silent movements. The movements are therefore created with the intention to create sound, which although works well for this piece, restricts the movement style the dancers can work in, not allowing them to freely improvise to collaborate with the tech- here they are more governed by what the tech initially wants and needs them to do. 'The relationships that matter are to be found in this dimension of musicking with the beings, shapes, textures, presence...