More touching and poking!

"Losing Touch" was a collaborative work by Gemma and myself. Due to camera placement, the natural violin is kind of overpowering the recorded samples in this video. When viewed live, the sounds are panning in an 8 channel system and sound more evenly mixed. 

Program Note: Distance takes a toll on relationships. This piece focus on the journey of two sisters and how their difference contrasts, yet, accompanies one another. It is an exploration of their diminishing relationship, which is represented through movement and negative space between the characters. 

RUBS (Responsive User Bodysuit): originally developed by Kiran Bhumber and Bob Pritchard 
​WiRED: Jin Han, Esther Mutinda, Carol Fu, and Lily Shao. 
Dancer: Gemma Tom. 
Programming/Music: me. 

No bows were harmed in the making of this video. I used my spare bow. 

For the beginning sections Gemma's character was scrubbing samples of my voice. But for the last section of this piece, she was triggering them. Triggering sounds much more clear than scrubbing, so it represented how my character gave something up to hers. However, when I heard it performed by her in rehearsal, the triggered samples sounded too repetitive and needed a little something to spice it up. So, I added smooth, randomized pitch shifting to her samples.  I achieved this through randomizing the [line] object. A demo video of how I did this is bellow. In the demo, I had all of the samples continuously playing on loop.