IDE Scene

IDE stands for Izutsu – Daphnis – Echo, refering to the myths that inspire the piece, stemming from Noh theatre and hellenistic and roman literature respectively. The common underlying idea is that of virtual presence of a missing person evoked through movement and sound in intense emotional states of longing.

IDE Scene is a musical and dance performance using wearable wireless motion capture sensors as input devices for controlling sound synthesis. It is part of a project in telematic dance which connects dancers in performing in different locations via internet. The performance explores various strategies for gesture controlled generation of musical structures and sound textures. Among these are: Playback of gestural segments from movements of the performer to control different layers of sound, creation of metric patterns by operating on layered cycles of beats to place individual sounds on these, and control on granulation and filtering parameters in sound samples.