THIS IS A MOVEMENT
SCANDINAVIAN PERFORMANCE GROUP
artistic research #1
PODER CORPORAL
spring 2017
Background for the artistic research #1 PODER CORPORAL:
Research question:
“What happens when we treat body and mind as one, and use them both to make music and sound with a computer?”
The body has a potential that we as composer have been neglecting. In this post- industrial world our bodies are managed by computers.
The brain is abusing the body. The brain is addicted to the computer.
We wondered; what about oxygen, light, motion, sweat, hunger, lust, breaks, breath, touch, persistence, blood circulation, sun, food, sleep, rest – and everything else.
We want to respect our physical needs and properties.
We want to make the computer addicted to our bodies.
Our bodies is the end.
This is a revolution for a better future.
Join our movement.
research and process.
Following a scheme.
To include physics we followed a daily scheme. Here we made room for the body's challenges and well being, for brain and computer work, and for playing with body and sound. Coding, playing music, exercising, eating, take a walk, programming, see the sun, sleep, watch tutorials, solder etc.
We made the research at The Danish School of Performing Arts during a two weeks period in may 2017.
Making scores.
The focus was all the time on the process and on the body, and we kept guarding the results along the way without giving them too much attention. For the laboratory experiments we made scores for our bodies and movements, and used that to improvise the sound.
Narrowing and taking decisions.
We decided to focus on the voltage input from our muscles, the heart and the biceps. We used arduino boards to connect a heart rate monitor and a muscle sensor to our computers, and in the program Max/MSP we converted the input signal to MIDI. The MIDI messages were sent to our sound program Ableton Live to process and manipulate acoustic and electronic sounds we were making live.
realisation.
This is a Movement
EXCERCISE
MOVING ON INSTRUMENTS
EKG & EMG
tech specs.
HARDWARE
2 x Genelec 1031a
1 x RME fireface 400
2 x Meyer UP junior
1 x Meyer UMS 1P
1 x DPA 4061
Korg MS-20
Telefunken M80 mic
Contact mics
2 x HOT HAND USB
1 MyoWare Muscle Sensor + 1 Arduino Genuino/Uno
1 Heart Rate Monitor + 1 Arduino Genuino/Uno
40 Electrode pads
SOFTWARE
Max/MSP
Arduino
Ableton Live 10
codes.
ARDUINO
heart rate monitor code:
void setup() {
// initialize the serial communication:
Serial.begin(9600);
pinMode(10, INPUT); // Setup for leads off detection LO +
pinMode(11, INPUT); // Setup for leads off detection LO -
}
void loop() {
if((digitalRead(10) == 1)||(digitalRead(11) == 1)){
Serial.println('!');
}
else{
// send the value of analog input 0:
Serial.println(analogRead(A0));
}
//Wait for a bit to keep serial data from saturating
delay(250);
}
Muscle Sensor code:
void setup() {
// initialize serial communication at 9600 bits per second:
Serial.begin(9600);
}
// the loop routine runs over and over again forever:
void loop() {
// read the input on analog pin 0:
int sensorValue = analogRead(A0);
// Convert the analog reading (which goes from 0 - 1023) to a voltage (0 - 5V):
// float voltage = sensorValue * (5.0 / 1023.0);
// print out the value you read://
Serial.println(sensorValue);
}
If you want to use our max/msp code for this project - please contact us using the form at the bottom.
This collaboration was part of the bachelor project of Linnea Jansson (Music Techonoly, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Music Technology) and an artistic research of Ingvild Njølstad Skandsen (The Danish National School of Performing Arts, Sound Specialization) . The research took place at both schools.
We give a big thank you to the following professors:
Andreas Bergsland, Yann Coppier, Laura Navndrup Black.
results.
Concert at Dokkhuset, Trondheim (Norway) 13.06.17
This Is a Movement live:
Ingvild Skandsen - analog synth and movements
Linnea Jansson - vocal, synth, beats and movements
Håkon Kvam - cymbals and snare
Lyrics and songs by Linnea Jansson.
Exhibition at The Danish National School of Performing Arts, Copenhagen (Denmark)
7. juni 2017
Installation by: Ingvild Skandsen
Left: poem with music
Right: interactive installation where the audience control videos from the research with a bluetooth MIDI controller
