MUSICAL WORKS

WANG Chi / 王驰

2014

Soul Hermit

Birth Y: 1985 Birth C: CHINA Gender: Female

Dest: Concert

Media Specification: Live electronics

Performer(s): WANG Chi

First perf.: KISS2014, Kyma International Sound Symposium, Lübeck

Perf. Country: GERMANY

Media: https://vimeo.com/112765155

Prog. notes: Soul Hermit is a multichannel interactive performance for the Leap Motion controller, customized software and the Kyma sound synthesis system. The Leap Motion reports various data streams, in this composition, the composer chose to use hands’ and fingers’ position in 3D space, distance between two hands and two fingers, then use those accessed data to modify synthesized and recorded sounds as well as video processing. Therefore, the interactive composition is performed with two hands’ real-time actions. The hands’ movements in the air and musical expression as well as real-time processing video create mysterious yet lively intermedia experience.

Friday 26 September 2014, St. Jakobi Lübeck
kiss2014.symbolicsound.com/detailed-program/

Editor: MB

Comment: See also: WANG Chi, Narrative to Action in the Creation and Performance of Music with Data-driven Instruments, DMA dissertation, University of Oregon, 2018