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Role - Composer, Sound Designer, System Designer
Developed with and by Nobutaka Shomura (dance/ choreography), Anna K Bitter (concept, stage design), Hilary Cox (concept, creative support)
Symphony of a raging body is a multimedia dance performance and interactive soundscape that attempts to explore the challenges we confront in the catastrophe of changing/ breaking relationships. How can we give expression to experiences of the transformative processes of dissolution? How do we respond and redefine ourself when familiar environments are destroyed or transmuted into new forms? How do we respond emotionally and with our bodies to the realisation of the vulnerability and finiteness of our planet?
In four chapters (stages of rage and mourning/ reassembling) the dancer and performer Nobutaka Shomura enters a complex choreography of movements that reflects the pain of loss and the possible ways of navigating those feelings. The aim of the performance is to understand experiences of loss less as lost territory than as a space we work through.
The centerpiece of the performance and the installation is a responsive generative audio system that translates the movements into sound in real time. The performer‘s movements are therefore captured by motion sensors, which feed the captured data to custom-written algorithms that interpret and convert it for use by generative audio instruments. Real-time processing allows bridging of the corporeal with technology where the sonic output feels more like the extension of the body, rather than an externality. The setup will thus enable the performer to investigate the increasing interconnectedness of the corporeal and the technological. As well as it will help to re - imagine the body as an expressive matter.
