Project Description:
The goal of the Pervasive Percussion Performance Space project is to
explore and synthesize notions of movement, space, and sound through radical choreographies
and new technical processes in a fundamentally redefined sound space. In creating a new
hybridized performance art there is a need to have new instruments that enables the best
expression of this new form.
The sound space will enable the dancer to create accompanying music and visual imagery
through the technological translation of specific movement vocabulary. Using sampled sounds
from musical instruments, environmental audio, and recordings, we will attempt to recreate
the rhythmic activities of everyday life as well as performance modalities.
This Pervasive Percussion Performance Space will be an environment that can be used by
Principal Investigator, choreographer, singer and musician, Aleta Hayes and other performance
artists, composers and fellow collaborators.
Current project goals include:
- Exploration of ideas at the intersection between four disciplines - dance, human computer
interaction, music, and visual art.
- Remixing of African inspired traditions of music, dance and visual art with technology
to re-discover those traditions within the current work being done in multimedia technology.
- Construction of a ‘live’ platform fitted with sensors that respond to touch,
movement, or light and which allows dancers to create a performative event (motion and music)
in real time.
- Creation of a lab for experimentation in dance, new music composition, and sound design for
undergraduate and graduate students.
Core Personnel:
- Principal Investigator and Artistic Director - Aleta Hayes (Dance Lecturer/Performer Drama Department )
- Co-Principal Investigator – Chris Chafe ( Professor and Director at the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics)
- Composer and Collaborator – Jonathan Berger (Associate Professor at the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics)
- Technical Designer – Sasha Leitman (Technical Coordinator for Stanford’s Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics)
- Project Manager – Michael Gonzalez ( Academic Technology Specialist Art/Art History and the Drama Department)
Collaborators:
- Harry Elam (Chair and Professor of Drama)
- Barbaro Martinez-Ruiz (Assistant Professor Art History )
- Ross P. Williams (Technical Director Drama Department)
- Paul Strayer (Shop Supervisor Drama Department)
- Michael St. Clair (Ph.D. Candidate Drama Department)
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