Duty harnesses the bodily convulsions produced by electric muscle stimulation to control performers in a work composed for fourteen handbells
COMPOSITIONS FOR INVOLUNTARY STRINGS
MIDI compositions send electrical impulses to performers’ muscles, forcing the musicians to ‘play’ their instruments involuntarily.
Sonified seismic data translates onto the bodies of performers in a string quartet via electric muscle stimulation.
Subsoma speaks to human reliance on data, highlighting the lack of agency we have in respect of global systems
Game On explores the challenges faced as technology advances to a point where ‘games’ become indistinguishable from reality
Based upon the medical potential of the Katzen Klavier (cat organ), Das Menschen Klavier (human piano) was created for psychiatric purposes
Is the pianist playing, or being played? Control is interrupted by electrical impulses which force his muscles to move involuntarily
GOLDFISH VARIATIONS FOR TWO PERFORMERS
A rule-based score comprising a set of instructions for two performers, where the musical outcome is determined by the movements of a goldfish.
Two performers breathe into each other’s bodies to produce beat frequencies
STRUCTURED IMPROVISATION WITH EMS
EMS is used to achieve a primary aim of mid 20th century experimentalism - to remove oneself from the activities of the sounds that one makes.
Electrically [de]controlled musicians address questions concerning challenges that arise with the evolution of human–machine assemblages
Within a field of musical indeterminacy, the musical masochist’s contract is enforced physical obligation determined by electrical impulses
My Mind Y/Our Body investigates the choreographic possibilities of brainwave sensors and electric muscle stimulation technologies.
ATTENTION IS A SCARCE RESOURCE
Social organisation and individual accountability break down as mediated interruption creates a compulsion in its users to engage
‘Robotic’ elements are inserted into an enduring emblem of Western classical tradition
THESE HANDS I THOUGHT WERE MINE
Embodied experience and sense of agency is disrupted and extended to expose the limitations of agency and question the boundaries of the self
FM-2030 utilizes programmed electric muscle stimulation to generate involuntary movements in string players.
