Rehearsals Rehearsals at Vitruvian Thing In the midst of our rehearsal process, much like the rest of Europe, the Greek government announced a nation-wide lockdown that has affected our ability to commute, including going to our own studio. We are making good progress at home with the code, music, and even the choreography, in a somehow more “static” manner. We…
Sound and code development Programming in the Supercollider development environment Δtopia is moving towards a three-part direction, following the review of the interview material. Not necessarily in order, these are centered around the following themes: “Memory is inaccurate”, as also explained in our last blog. This piece has been fleshed out substantially since then. Firstly, there is a 5-minute ambient…
Choreographic development Drosia Triantaki Topos means place. Place can be thought of as “human memory”, as Dimitri Papageorgiou suggested in his interview that we are attaching. Memories profoundly affect the human body, causing different moving expressions, or indeed stillness. A phrase from his interview that we are working with is “memory is inaccurate”: living the present is very…
Body interface development A summary of the function of the interfaces used for Δtopia Body electronics To facilitate the interactive aspects of Δtopia, inertial and mechanical sensors on the dancer’s body — in this case, Drosia’s — transmit motion data wirelessly to computers for processing and use for musical control, modulation, or other algorithmic input. A kind of information feedback…