HUDDLE [GoingPublik]

HUDDLE [GoingPublik]

Art Clay (USA/CH) & Erratum Ensemble* (INT)

GoingPublik is a sound art work for distributive of trombones ensemble and wearable computers.

The core idea behind the work is a strategy of mobility by employing the wearable computer system to run a software based electronic score, allowing for what might be termed 'composed improvisation'. This lets improvisational elements mix within a compositional structured music.

By electronically monitoring the performer's physical position in and movement space during performance using universal inputs such as geographical positions obtained via satellites and sensors using the earth's magnetic field, the score program can make suggestions and demands on the performer to various degrees and at various times. The contents of the score thereby linked directly to the movements of the performer and thus creating a unique choreographic metaphor of sound dispersing in space.

*The players of the ensemble are Roland Dahinden (CHE), Günter Heinz (DEU) & Thierry Madiot (FRA) and have performed the work at various festivals and events since 2000.

at digital art weeks in zurich - 2006