Collaborator: A. P. Vague
Location: MASS MoCA, building B6
Photographer: Carolina Porras-Monroy
“Dance for Radio” is a collaborative project with multidisciplinary artist A. P. Vague that explores the concept of scoring and communicating movement and dance through sound.
In “Dance for Radio,” Vague created twelve audio pieces that I am using as a score for movement. Each piece is four minutes and thirty-three seconds long and will be filmed in various locations on the MASS MoCA campus.
The twelve musical pieces, created in the PureData programming environment, are an experiment in choreographing a dance using only audio. The sound consists of one chord (Fmaj7) that is played continuously throughout the piece, with each of the five notes in the chord changing in volume and timbre. The highest note (E) corresponds to the head, neck, or spine of the dancer’s body. The other four notes, which are heard in either the left or right channels, align with each of the dancer’s limbs (F legs) (C left arm) (A right arm). As the individual notes change, the dancer may respond by moving the associated limb(s) accordingly, with louder and more abrasive sounds denoting larger movements.
I am using this audio as a source to develop dance performances. This process differs from traditional choreographic processes, as the dance itself is not “written” and developed as a direct creation of a choreographer, rather, it is the translation of the abstract sound and its relationship to the industrial environment.
The concept behind this project is inspired by the difficulties and possible joys of communication across unconventional formats. As dance is generally an art form that is meant to happen both in the moment in and in-situ, "Dance for Radio" explores the possibilities of how dance can occur through displacement.
This practice recalls experiences Brace and A. P. Vague each had growing up in remote areas with little access to live performing arts. Vague only had access to limited methods of experiencing music and dance, in some cases reading various music magazine descriptions of records they would never hear, or interviews with choreographers whose work they only knew from imagination. Similarly, Brace sought creative outlets in fashion magazines and in her ballet class that was a two-hour drive round trip away.
"Dance for Radio" is an attempt to embrace this moment of immaterial connection and create a format that exists in translation. This project is intended to reach an uncommon audience for dance, blending categories like creative coding, audio art, and performance. The project is intended to be performed in the Maine landscape and will be exhibited as a video projection and/or live performance in contemporary art spaces.
Collaborator: A. P. Vague
Location: MASS MoCA, building B6
Sculpture: Sarah Oppenheimer S-334473
Photographer: Carolina Porras-Monroy
Collaborator: A. P. Vague
Location: MASS MoCA, building B6
Sculpture: Sarah Oppenheimer S-334473
Photographer: Carolina Porras-Monroy
Collaboration: with A. P. Vague
Location: MASS MoCA, building B6
Sculpture: Sarah Oppenheimer S-334473
Photographer: Carolina Porras-Monroy
Collaborator: A. P. Vague
Location: MASS MoCA, building B6
Sculpture: Sarah Oppenheimer S-334473
Photographer: Carolina Porras-Monroy
Collaborator: A. P. Vague
Location: MASS MoCA, building B6
Sculpture: Sarah Oppenheimer S-334473
Photographer: Carolina Porras-Monroy
Collaborator: A. P. Vague
Location: MASS MoCA, building B6
Sculpture: Sarah Oppenheimer S-334473
Photographer: Carolina Porras-Monroy
Collaborator: A. P. Vague
Location: MASS MoCA, building B6
Sculpture: Sarah Oppenheimer S-334473
Photographer: Carolina Porras-Monroy
Collaborator: A. P. Vague
Location: MASS MoCA, building B6
Sculpture: Sarah Oppenheimer S-334473
Photographer: Carolina Porras-Monroy
Collaborator: A. P. Vague
Location: MASS MoCA, building B6
Sculpture: Sarah Oppenheimer S-334473
Photographer: Carolina Porras-Monroy
Collaborator: A. P. Vague
Location: MASS MoCA, building B6
Sculpture: Sarah Oppenheimer S-334473
Photographer: Carolina Porras-Monroy
Dance for Radio 2022
“Dance for Radio” explores the concept of scoring and communicating movement and dance through sound. Listen to each of these tracks in headphones and move your body according to the following directions:
When you hear sound in the left headphone, use the left side of your body.
When you hear sound in the right headphone, use the right side of your body.
High (E) notes correspond to the head.
Medium (A, C) notes correspond to the left and right arm.
Low (F) notes correspond to the legs.
Notes will fluctuate in volume and timbre, adjust your movement to be more, or less exaggerated.
Think about the body as a connected whole. When one part moves, how does it activate the rest of the body?
Stay in constant motion, even if it is imperceptible.
If you can, play and dance to all 12 tracks in order. They accumulate.
https://apvague.wordpress.com/2022/06/01/dance-for-radio-2022/
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“Dance for Radio” is a collaborative project with A. P. Vague that explores the concept of scoring and communicating movement and dance in various ways.