Sonic Move
Sonic Move - Creative and Expressive Sonification of Human Movement is a Business Finland 7655/31/2022 co-research project in collaboration with VTT, the University of Eastern Finland, Aalto University, Taustamarkkinat BGMT Oy, and Genelec Oy.
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2025 / August
Developing and integrating extended artistic design space in dance
In dance practices, body movement patterns are communicated in various choreographic forms for artistic expression, combined with sound and music cues.
Business Finland Co-Research Project
The SonicMove project will make significant advance in developing multimodal cues that effectively communicate information from the performer to performer as well as to audience. Sound cues coupled with body and hand movements, position and speed create novel ways to express movements. The project will develop computational and interactive techniques that are more directly linked to supporting creative exploration of dance movements and seek to understand how these new techniques impact dance practices.
The project will provide tools for dance groups in choreography and improvisation and facilitate new audience experience, both on-site and remotely. For example, in addition to seeing the dancer, the audience can hear and possibly feel the dancer’s movements. Effects include percussive sounds and vibrations produced while performer for example hits a virtual drum. Sonification based on dancers’ arm motion was piloted at Kuopio Dance Festival in June 2022 with live audience.
2024 / November
Sonic Organism
As part of last year’s experimentation, the Sonic Move project collaborated with Hanna Pajala-Assefa’s SONIC ORGANISM performance—a participatory, co-emergent interactive performance, which was performed in June 2024 at the Theatre Academy in Helsinki as part of Hanna Pajala-Assefa’s doctoral research on Digital Choreography at the University of the Arts Helsinki.
img ©Hanna Pajala-Assefa
2023 / November
Tanssiteatteri Minimin Biodatasonaatti
The autumn season of the Dance Theatre Minim is a study of the dancer and her bodily biography. The production is created in collaboration with the Sonic Move project. The choreographer of the work is Mikko Makkonen, the artistic director of the Dance Theatre Minim. Sonification as a method transforms the dancer's movement into sound. It enables the dance and choreography to be felt, heard and experienced audibly, which makes it possible for the dance and the stage to accompany themselves in the work. The performance is a collision of art and science, where dance is transformed into sound and interactive feedback, material and landscape.
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Biodatasonaatti - Biodata Sonata / Trailer / Dance Theatre Minimi
