o.m.2 - g.i. - p.p.
Suguru Goto · 2007
Playing this composition, a performer wears BodySuit, on which 12 sensors are attached on each joint of the body. BodySuit functions as an interface of gesture. Depending on a movement, sound and video images are changed in real time. This differs from a traditional instrument and a controller. A player performs with larger movements, such as stretching and bending joints, twisting arms and so on. This gesture does not function like dance or theater. It contains, however, an element of performance within the live musical context. The gesture is not previously decided in a strict sense. An audience may observe an obvious difference of intensity of movement between a static section and a kinetic section in the composition.BodySuit does not produce any sound by itself at all. Sound can be generated with a program, Max/MSP. Therefore, thist can be widely changed according to the method of programming. In the same manner, a similar gesture may derive a very different result on other sections in the piece.This BodySuit was developed by the engineer, Patrice Pierrot at IRCAM.The interactive video part was done with Max/Jitter. This allows modification of a movie file which was previously prepared and a picture file in real time. These can effect each other by juxtaposing as foreground, background and displacement. In this composition, the effects are especially controlled by BodySuit.