Written and dedicated to Soundinitiative Ensemble, this work was created through the STARTS Program (Science, Technology and the Arts) of the European Commission, during an artistic research residency at IRCAM, in collaboration with the ISMM (Interaction Son Musique Mouvement) team.
String figures are like stories; they propose and enact patterns for participants to inhabit, somehow, on a vulnerable and wounded earth. (Donna Haraway)
Constella(c)tions is part of a series of interactive pieces co-created in scientific collaboration with Benjamin Matuszewski and Frédéric Bevilacqua (ISMM team, IRCAM). This work is dedicated to Soundinitiative Ensemble, whose aesthetic contributions have been essential in shaping the performative dimension and the relationship with the audience.
Performers wear sensors. A musical performance emerges from connection with the audience, through string plays and string figures.
The musical score functions as a game: it proposes rules, constraints, but it is in the passing from hand to hand that musical form emerges.
Each gesture transforms sound. Each movement creates new connections.
The system uses motion sensors and smartphones. No distinction between professional musicians and audience. Sounds do not pre-exist gestures. They emerge from relation, from encounter, from shared movement.
The Constella(c)tions can be presented as a performance and/or workshop.
The workshop centers around:
String Figures as Co-creation and Score Sharing
The ancient practice of string figures becomes a living musical notation, passed from hand to hand, transforming collective gesture into shared composition.
Sonic Imagination Through Hands
Hands think sonically. Each movement carries potential sound, each configuration suggests musical possibility. The tactile becomes audible.
Technology responds to gesture in real-time, creating an adaptive sonic environment that supports and amplifies human connection.
Creating Connections Through Sound
Sound emerges as relational tissue, weaving participants into a temporary community of listening and making.
Body consciousness through the interplay of movement and sound. Participants discover how their gestures resonate – literally and metaphorically – creating heightened awareness of self in relation to others.
Soundinitiative
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Constella(c)tions performance with musicians and performers
Constella(c)tions presentation with performers