INTERACTIVE COMPOSITION COLLABORATIONS
INTERACTIVE COMPOSITION COLLABORATIONS
LACHLAN BLACK - FOLIO COLLABORATION
Wyndd (Project 2)
A focus on breath informed the large majority of creative decisions in this project. In contrasting fashion to Bells, Wyndd saw a more cross-disciplinary approach to the collaboration. Dancers first focused on a series of movements, informed by breath, which led to my initial exploration of simulating wind through artificial processes, such as synthesis. Further exploring the
organic/artificial interaction, the basis of the piece focuses on a granular wind-instrument sample being looped and modulated by a
simulation of a magnetic field, where simulated particle movements inform sample grain size and position.
LACHLAN BLACK - FOLIO COLLABORATION
Bells (Project 1)
Bells saw a conceptual realisation of dancers acting together as one entity. Reflecting the timbral and tonal qualities of the music, in which dozens of synths combine to realise one compound texture, the dancers explored the effects of their combined masses as one silhouette. Towards the end of the piece, the dancers reflect on the generative synth pattern to inform their movements from one shape to the next, shifting slowly between shapes as if being dictated to by the music.
LACHLAN BLACK - FOLIO COLLABORATION
Footnote (Project 3)
Footnote focused on the postmodern ideas of pedestrian movement in dance (Banes, 1987). Utilising various found sounds from a typical commute into the city, Footnote explores how our everyday lives involve countless interactions between artificial and organic, physician and metaphysical. Dancers in this piece focused on incorporating everyday pedestrian movement into their choreography, as well as interacting with the environment we filmed in, responding to other stimuli such as interruptions from members of the public.