BODYSCAPES_corpophonolux


Großer Saal, Freitag, 18.11, 21h
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Lighting  Design  meets  Choreography  and  Composition

:::  translating  light  and  movement  into  sound
Videolink:  www.verom.me/bodyscapes  (research)

“Bodyscapes_corpoPhonolux”  is  a  multidimensional  interactive  installation  connecting  synaesthetically  the  visual  and  spatial  sense  with  hearing.  The  basic  idea  of  this  project  is  the  translation  of  light into  sound  –  to  transform  what  we  see  simutaneously  in  an  acoustic  soundscape.  The  performer  becomes  “sensor”  and  interactive  element  at  the  same  time.  Along  the  dancer‘s  body  are  8  lightsensors  installed,    measuring  steadily  the  various  intensities  and  colours  of  light  on  selected  points  along  the  body  surface  (joints,  head,  etc...) The  dancer    is  passing  through  different  light  situations.  Sensors  are influenced by way and quality of movement in space, plasticity of  the  body  and  different  lighting  and  projection  ambiances  by  the  surrounding  structure.  The  symbiosis  of    movement  and    different  lighting situations are the two equal "masters" of the composition. As  if  someone  is  playing  the  piano,  the  dancer  is  playing  the  “space”  with  his  body  like  an  instrument  -­  like  an  orgue  of  movement,  with  each  sensor  equally  tuned.  Finally  the  performance  on  stage  becomes  a  3dimensional    improvisation  between  the  lighting  design  and  the  dancer.  Each  gesture  can  be  heard.  One  major  factor  is  the  spatial  distribution  of  loudspeakers  in  a  360°  area  around  the  spectator.  Each  sensor  is  directly  connected  to  one  loudspeaker,  so  the  acoustic  output  of  each  single  sensor  can  be  directly  assigned  within space  for  the  spectator.  Therefore  the  soundscape  becomes  a  direct  acoustic  illustration  of  the  body’s  surface  in  space.  

Idea/Choreography/Performance:  Veronika  Mayerböck
Sound/Composition:Noid;;  IT/Multimedia:Simon  Laburda
Photocredits:  Konstanze  Mayerböck,  Monika  Perner

www.verom.me

Shows:  
Art  on  Wires-­Festival  in  Oslo(NO)/May2010;;
Posthof   Linz-­Heimspiel   /Feb2011;;   Schmiede-­   Hallein     2011;;  
Transmediale  Hellerau  -­    Cynetart  -­  Festival  Dresden(D)  /Nov2011

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BIOGRAPHY

MSc  Veronika  Mayerböck  (A)
*2.8.1981  in  Cologne  /  Germany
Veronika  Mayerböck  is  working  as  freelance  performer/

dancer&choreographer,  lighting  designer  and  artist.  Fascinated  of  the  symbiosis  between  architecture  and  dance  she  followed  the  formation  in  contemporary  dance  already  in  parallel  to  her studies  of  Architecture  (TU-­Graz)  a.o.  with  Mona  May  (A)  ,  Frey  Faust  (US)  and  many  other  teachers.  Later  continuous  further  training  in  the  various  fields of dance, improvisation, choreography and composition  in    Austria,  France,  Hungary,  Brazil  and  Argentina.  Since  2008  living  in  Vienna.  After  2  years  of  working  activity  as  professional  lighting  designer  for  several offices and companies, she decides to work freelance as performing artist with the end of 2009.

Guiding workshops with students in the field of space/bodyperception   and   lighting   design.   Installation-­     and  performanceworks  with  impact  on  light-­  and  spaceperception  in  Belgium,  Norway, France  and  Austria.  Further  collaboration   with   performing   artists   like   Anne   Juren,  Frans  Poelstra  &  Robert  Stein,  Milli  Bitterli,  Bert  Gstettner,  Sebastian  Prantl,  Akemi  Takeya,  Moe Yamamoto  /  Butoh  Cie  Kanazawa  Butoh  Kann  (Jp).  
Awarded   in   the   scope   of   „Labormarathon-­Tanztage  2009" at Linzer Posthof for her first Soloperformance "A_SLEEP.would  you  listen?“.  

In May 2010 stipendium from Electronic Arts Festival „Arts on Wires“ (www.art-­on-­wires.org) in Oslo/Norway for her interactive Performance-­project »BODYSCAPES_corpophonolux«; In June 2010 START Stipendium by the Austrian Ministry of Arts and Culture (BMUKK). In the scope of Heimspiel at Linzer POSTHOF she presented her current performance works within an own evening in February 2011 and the piece BOA SORTE together with Nanina Kotlowski(A) at Kulturhuset Stockholm in August 2011. A new dance piece "one rotten day in paradise" together with Gisela Elisa Heredia (Arg/A) is currently in elaboration.

NOID  ::  ARNOLD  HABERL  (A)
*1970,  living  in  vienna                                                                  
composer  .  performer  .  improviser  |  auricular  .  cello  .  electronic  devices

his  musical  approach  can  be  described  as  fundamental  research.  his  works  span  a  wide  range  of  contradictory  outcome,  from  solos  to  compositions  for  ensembles,  from  sound  installations to  videos.  using  electronics  as  well  as  acoustical  instruments.  consequently  denying  the  borderline  between  music  and  sound-­art.  this  lead  him  to collaborations with artists of different fields - choreographers, like joao fiadeiro, colette sadler, akemi takeya, philipp  gehmacher,  etc...  -­  visual  artists  as  for  instance  andré  goncalves.
beside  his  long  term  improvisation  ensembles:  b:f:n  [w/  cordula  boesze  and  wolfgang  fuchs]  and  ease  [w/  klaus  filip] he performed among others with: kazuhisa uchihashi,  susanna  gartmayer, taku  unami,  okkyung  lee,  o.blaat,  marco eneidi, axel doerner, christian weber, erikM, dieb13,  burkhard  stangl,  yan  jun,  franz  hautzinger,  taku  han-­noda,  carl  stone,  mattin,  billy  roisz,  hankil  ryu, etc;;  in  his  understanding  composition  and  improvisation  cannot  be  seen  as  separated:  improvisation  is  the  base  of  composition,  and  composition  is  the  base  for  improvisation.  „how  can  we compose  without  destroying  more  than  we  are  able  to  evoke?
how  can  we  improvise  without  just  repeating  the  same  patterns  (while  feeling  ‚so  free‘)?“

SIMON  LABURDA  (A)
Freelance  programmer  and  electronics  designer,  currently  living  in  Vienna  where  he  is  member  of  the  multimedia  collective  DKIA  (www.dkia.at)  and  further  employed  as  network  administrator  at  a  small  company.  During  the  last  years  he  was  in  charge  of  hard-­  and  softwaredevelopment  in  a  number  of  new  media  art  projects  such  as  LEDsMob (an interactive flexible LED-screen installation), the "Lightheadproject" (radio controlled helmets flashing  to  the  beat  of  the  music)  and  the  „Hörverbindung  zur  Quelle" - a solar powered modified phone booth allowing users  to  listen  to  the  gurgling  noise  of  the  fountains  from  Vienna‘s  water  supply  .  In 2010 and 2011 he led an electronics workshop at the „art.on.wires festival” in Oslo/Norway.

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