Laptop Music and Embodiment: Materializing the Ephemeral
Heffner Hayes, Michelle Haaheim, Kip Hodges-Persley, Nicole Tucker, Sherrie
Heffner Hayes, Michelle
Haaheim, Kip
Hodges-Persley, Nicole
Tucker, Sherrie
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Embodied experiences of music and dance are difficult to describe, let alone preserve for the future. Every listener—those who play or dance and those who don’t—experiences it differently. And when that embodied experience takes place across the digital divide, as diverse bodies differently respond shifting material conditions, perceptual response, and improvisatory navigation—what is the material and how do we share it? In this panel discussion, four KU faculty from the departments of American Studies, Dance, Music, and Theatre, will discuss the material and ephemeral findings of their work on improvisation utilizing a musical instrument download that responds to movement large and small, adapts to all bodies, and calls attention to the user’s experience of their body as they face the screen of a laptop, PC, or IPad. Music and dance are not disconnected in this practice built on body-triggered sound; instead this connection is heightened. In addition, dance need not configure a bodily ideal, but shapes bodies, incorporates all bodies, and constructs connections between people. Panelists will speak at the brink of a forthcoming multi-media performance (KU Commons, October date TBA 2013) that explores lines of performance/research, dis/ability, mobility/stasis, agency/eminence, and sounding/perceiving.
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Digital Humanities Forum: Return to the Material. University of Kansas. September 14, 2013: http://idrh.ku.edu/dhforum2013
Michelle Heffner Hayes is at the University of Kansas.
Kip Haaheim is at the University of Kansas.
Nicole Hodges-Persley is at the University of Kansas.
Sherry Tucker is at the University of Kansas.
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2013-09-14
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Digital, Humanities, Laptop (Musical Performance Role), Adaptive Technologies, Improvisation, American Studies, Dance, Music, Theater