The Antisocial Distancing Ensemble
Sound Circuits 2021, Lisbon (PT)
The Antisocial Distancing Ensemble was set out to confront the current attitudes towards the COVID-19 pandemic and positional sensibility with the other. The public intervention is designed to challenge the conventional dualisms between physical distancing and social connectedness, mediating collective interaction with mobile sound feedback. Following this event, the composition "Artificial Hearts Ensemble" was composed for the sub_bar event series
Moving Digits
Artistic Residency and Performance, STL, Tallinn (EE)
Moving Digits: Augmented Dance for Engaged Audience aims to enhance audience understanding and engagement in contemporary dance performances, and to allow to experience dance in an augmented way (even after the performance). The project also aims to empower dancers, choreographers and technicians with further tools for expression, archival and analysis.
The Liquid Interface for Musical Expression (LIME)
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ADDA
A Musical performance using embodied technologies. We designed a set of sensory smart gloves that will track the spacial movements of the performer's hands along with the relative position of the fingers, use to detect different types of motion and gestures. When used in conjunction, the performer is able to control the sound output. Simultaneously, we are controlling a modified TENS muscle stimulator, overriding the performer's control of movement when a current is imposedCollaboration with Vytautas Niedvaras AD/DA: Electronic Sound Installation & Performances
UNLOOP - Mini Documentary
UNLOOP, de David Negrão & Sara Montalvão is an interdisciplinary and participatory project created in the context of of two artistic residencies in Alentejo - São Luís, Odemira and Montemor-o-Novo, in October and November 2021.
Dance2Vec Thesis
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False Efficiency
Collaboration with Rosie Gibbens
"Using sensors and microphones on my body and the table, an unsettling soundscape is created as I perform the gestures.
It builds in intensity at moments of increased movement. The stamp cues whispered phrases from Ivanka’s book.
These were chosen by me for their corporate jargon, aspirational nature or gendered associations"
Shown as part of the ‘Youth Board Presents’ at Toynbee Studios. April 2018. Photos by Greg Goodale.