Synthesis

Hi,

Let’s plan a visit from Teoma Naccarato and John MacCallum for the Rhythm workshop #2

with AME PhD’s interested in pursuing some “correlation” studies toward 

understanding coordinated, non-isomorphic gesture.    (Maybe Adrian if he’s up to it in February ? )

What dates would work for the scientific team?

Let’s first talk about what experiment we might try to run with John, Teoma, and local undergrad / grad performers.

We definitely should work with quotidian as well as rehearsed movers (aka dance students)

in everyday as well as choreographed scenarios.

Like I said to Mike, et al.   At the end of the workshop, 

i.e. on Monday and Tuesday, I’d like each hosted research cluster to draft some outcome, like

• Research proposal (e.g. notes for a grant )

• Notes on experience for future publication

• Data — o4.track — video + OSC streams recorded by Garrett

should be archived in Synthesis webspace accessible to

Pavan’s group, Mike and related SC researchers

as well as

• Documentation (video, images, text) usable for print as well as web pub.

• Code for Synthesis-TML commons

• Gear for AME-Synthesis space

• Know-how as tech documentation

Xin Wei

From: Teoma Naccarato <teomajn@gmail.com>

Subject: Re: Rhythm workshop # 2: Heartbeat, February or January 2015

Date: November 19, 2014 at 1:41:34 AM MST

To: Sha Xin Wei <shaxinwei@gmail.com>

Cc: John MacCallum <john.m@ccallum.com>, Pavan Turaga <pturaga@asu.edu>, Michael Krzyzaniak <mkrzyzan@asu.edu>, Julian Stein <julian.stein@gmail.com>, synthesis-operations@googlegroups.com

Hi Xin Wei and company,

 

Apologies for our delayed response… we just returned (to Paris) from England where we gave talks at the MIPTL lab at Sussex University, and the Digital Studio Lab at Goldsmiths (Freida says hello!). I hope the Rhythm Workshop is going well this week! 

  

Xin Wei, we are looking forward to the “Rhythm Workshop Part 2” you have proposed.  It will be great to learn about the rhythm measurement and analysis tools being developed at AME. Our software and hardware tools for sensing, processing, and documenting cardiac and respiratory activity during a range of body motion are developing well, thanks to John and Adrian, as well Emmanuel Fletty here at IRCAM. 

 

We are wondering if it would be a possibility to spend one or two weeks either prior to or after the collective workshop as a residency at the Synthesis Lab to focus on questions and tools specific to our project. We would love to give a presentation of our work to date, and guide focused research experiments with interested participants at the lab, and in music and dance. Would this be of interest?

 

Some questions that are guiding our current research at IRCAM, and that we hope to share with collaborators AME in the New Year include:

 

1.     What patterns of temporal correlation between cardiac, respiratory, and nervous function - during a range of physical activities and conditions - can be measured and observed via bio-sensing?

2.     How can such patterns be used to choreograph and compose intentional arcs in the heart activity of performers over time?

3.     How do humans and media negotiate between:

                                                        i.     Internal, felt sense of time - as perceived

                                                       ii.     Performative time - as realized

                                                     iii.     Score time - as prescribed 

4.     To what extent does the existence of a feedback loop between humans and media – real or perceived – impact the experience of performers, and of observers? 

We look forward to discussing further. Thank you very much!

 

Best wishes,

Teoma and John