photo by Sebastian Daume
Phonolux#03 is an interactive installation from Veronika Mayerböck for a dancer/performer on stage who is becoming the “sensor” and “interactive element” in the same time. Along the dancer’s body is a sort of tracking system installed, measuring the various intensity and colours of light via sensors on selected points along the body surface (joints, head, torso, etc…) and translating it into an acoustic output. The dancer is passing different light situations according to movement in space, plasticity of his body and different lighting ambiances by the lighting designer.
The sensors are measuring the different light intensities and ambiences all over his body surface and translate it into an acoustic output with each sensor creating a different tone. It’s like an orgue of movement, but what you hear is a direct translation of light into sound.
As if someone is playing the piano, the dancer is playing the “space” with his body like an instrument. Finally the performance on stage becomes a 3dimensional improvisation between the lighting designer and the dancer on a visually seen acoustic soundscape.
With Phonolux#03 Veronika Mayerböck won an artistic scholarship award at Art.on.Wires 2010.
