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High-order surrogacy for the audiovisual display of dance
High-order surrogacy for the audiovisual display of dance
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Kalonaris, Stefano
Zannos, Iannis
Zannos, Iannis
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The current pandemic (COVID-19) has had considerable impact on many fronts, not least on the physical presence of humans, affecting how we relate to one another and to the natural environment. To investigate these two interactions, the notion of surrogacy, originally described by Smalley as remoteness between source and sonic gesture, is considered and extended to include bodily gesture, for the rendering of contemporary dance performances into abstract audiovisual compositions/objects. To this end, for a given dance performance, sonification of the motion capture data is combined with video-frame processing of the video recording. In this study, we focus on higher order surrogacy and associate this with 1) a soundscape ecology-inspired approach to sonification, whereby three species of sounds coexist and adapt in the environment according to the symbiotic paradigm of mutualism, and 2) a wave space method to sonify their coevolution. Aesthetic implications of this procedure in the context of multimodal, telematic/remote and virtual systems are discussed as disembodied presence emerges as a dominant trope in our daily experience.
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2021-06
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