Theatre | Bodycoder - Voice
Running Time: 45 minutes
Showing: Thu 22nd Nov
Full: £8
Concession:£6
Language: English
After appearing in venues all over Europe and the US, Bodycoder - Voice is coming to Watermans... This unique solo-show is a multi-media revelation of the human voice and its unimaginable intensity, performed by Julie Wilson-Bokowiec
It renders the voice multidimensional and examines how the natural movement vocabulary of the body can create and manipulate sound.
Extended vocal techniques projected. Voice manipulated by the limbs, embodied and mapped by live digital processing. Liberated from physical and culturally predefined boundaries, it becomes multidimensional. A ritualistic entoning of the possibilities both the real and the mythical, the implicit and the virtual, the human and the inhuman. A voice distinctly transgendered within the interactive medium, an originality that is defined only by its own transmutations.
How it works
An array of sensors worn on the body of the performer translates movements into data which is sent to a computer (a Multi Sensory Perception environment). The computer processes this data and triggers visuals and a sound track - made up of the performer's voice and the translated movement data.
No soundfiles are used, which means that everything heard is created live and originates from the acoustic voice and the performer's movements. The performer retains complete control over the output and so generates, affects, and manipulates all aspects of the show.
The artists Julie Wilson-Bokowiec and Mark Bokowiec have been working with the Bodycoder system since 1995.
Mark Bokowiec (Composer, Electronics & Software Designer)
Mark is the manager of the electro-acoustic music studios at the University of Huddersfield and lectures in interactive performance and composition. Composition credits include: Tricorder a work for two quarter tone recorders and live MSP, commissioned by Ensemble QTR. Commissions for interactive instruments include: the LiteHarp for London Science Museum and A Passage To India an interactive sound sculpture commissioned by Wakefield City Art Gallery. CD releases include: Route (2001) the complete soundtrack on MPS and Ghosts (2000) on Sonic Art from Aberdeen, Glasgow, Huddersfield and Newcastle also on the MPS label. Mark is currently working developing an interactive hydro-acoustic installation.
Julie Wilson-Bokowiec (vocalist/performer, video and computer graphics)
Julie Wilson-Bokowiec is an interactive media artist and performer. She has worked as a choreographer and theatre director creating new works in opera, contemporary dance and theatre including: Salome (Hammersmith Odeon - Harvey Goldsmith/Enid production) Suspended Sentences (ICA & touring) Figure Three (ICA) for Julia Bardsley, The Red Room (Canal Café Theatre) nominated for the Whitbread London Fringe Theatre Prize, Dorian Grey for the Lawrence Batley Theatre in association with Opera North, Alice (LBT), and a variety of large-scale site-specific works. As a performer and collaborator Julie has worked with such luminaries as Genesis P-Orridge and Psychic TV and the notorious Austrian artist Hermann Nitsch.
Since 1995 the artists have presented work with the Bodycoder System at international gatherings and venues across Europe and the US including ISEA and ICMC and have enjoyed residencies at Banff Centre, Canada and STEIM, Amsterdam. Major theatrical works include The Suicided Voice (2005), Spiral Fiction (2002) an interactive performance installation commissioned by Digital Summer, part of the Cultural Programme of the Commonwealth Games, Manchester. Cyborg Dreaming (2000/1) commissioned by the Science Museum, London. Zeitgeist at the KlangArt Festival and Lifting Bodies (1999) at the Trafo, Budapest, as featured artists in the Hungarian Computer Music Foundation Festival supported by the British Council.
more details: http://www.bodycoder.com/
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