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BookBody As Instrument : Performing with Gestural Systems in Live Electronic Music / Mary Mainsbridge.
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Body as
Instrument explores how musicians interact with
movement-controlled performance systems, producing sounds
imbued with their individual physical signature. Using motion
tracking technology, performers can translate physical actions
into sonic processes, creating or adapting novel gestural
systems that transcend the structures and constraints of
conventional musical instruments. Interviews with influential
artists in the field, Laetitia Sonami, Atau Tanaka, Pamela Z,
Julie Wilson-Bokowiec, Lauren Sarah Hayes, Mark Coniglio, Garth
Paine and The Bent Leather Band expose the transformational
impact of motion sensors on musicians' body awareness and
abilities. Coupled with reflection on author-composed works,
the book analyses how the body as instrument metaphor informs
relationships between performers, their bodies and
self-designed instruments. It also examines the role of
experiential design strategies in developing robust and nuanced
gestural systems that mirror a performer's movement habits,
preferences and skills, inspiring new physical forms of musical
communication and diverse musical repertoire.
ISBN: 9781501368547
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