where I aimed to investigate the use of the body in a sonic-theatrical context.
With the use of motion capture technology the performer improvises a series of sonic structures in real time and navigates the audience through a pre-composed narrative.
The piece draws inspiration from 6 August 1945, a day of international remembrance of humanity's catastrophic nature. The abstract narrative unfolds with the performer’s embodiment of virtual characters depicting the morning of the 6th of August at a family house in Hiroshima.
By means of acting and interacting with sound, the performer aims to communicate emotions through the creation of the interactive sound with the body. She engages in a constant transformation expressing the diversity between the present reality and the one of the play, as realised in a conceptual based interactive composition.
The project was realized as a collaboration with PhD candidate in music composition Shiori Usui and the performance was presented at the Inspace Gallery,University of Edinburgh on the 27th of April 2010.
Note: The sound in this video documentation is based on a 3-D binaural technique on an attempt to actual performance space. It is therefore suggested to watch it using headphones.
Hiroshima by Lympouridis Vangelis is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
Based on a work at inter-axions.blogspot.com.
