LMA driven Dynamic Audiovisuals in a Virtual Reality Live Dance Performance: Ghostdance
José Siopa, Rui Filipe Antunes, Cecília de Lima, João Marques Carrilho, Ana Paula Cláudio, Maria Beatriz Carmo · 2024
Ghostdance is an evolving generative art project in the field of dance and virtual reality (VR). It mixes visual, auditory and immersive experiences, making use of generative algorithms to create a dynamic audiovisual landscape with continuously changing images and sounds. The performance consists of three interconnected components: a) a duet featuring a human dancer and an avatar mirroring the movements of an absent person; b) the transformation of the physical movements of the human dancer into a visualization of a hybrid body, constantly redefined as a swarm of virtual entities; and c) the sonification of the dancer's movements, introducing an auditory dimension to the exploration of movement.