On 15 January 2025, the team of the Atlas of Smooth Spaces project presented an insight into three and a half years of artistic research in the disciplines of choral conducting, original sound (film), mathematics, rhythmics and dance at the ABPU’s Forschungsforum. In a lecture performance, the team took the audience on a journey through the laboratories, projects and results of the interdisciplinary artistic research.
Spherical Dances configure dance movements by means of text, image and dance scores on the theme. They unfold from the processes of deciphering, scanning and incarnating this score. Movement is understood here as a broad spectrum of physical phenomena, impulses and mechanics, i.e. not only the mechanically visible movement of human limbs, but also inner movements such as breathing, changes in tension, perceptions, spatial references, contacts, touches, points in space and time. In re-actions to their view and their interpretation of the material, dancers invent movements and (temporal) spaces. Such thematically arranged re-action chains appear analogous to the dramaturgy of hope – a dramaturgy that seeks to shape and change re-action chains from the conditions of reality.
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An experimental serie for Pianist (Hanne Pilgrim) and self-player Piano (Bösendorfer CEUS) that explores the spaces between the performer, the instrument and everything around them.
Where: Porgy & Bess / Strengen Kammer
When: 2023-11-13
Who: Hanne Pilgrim, Adrián Artacho, Markus Kupferblum, Leonhard Horstmeyer.
Scores sind derzeit in aller Munde. Choreografien und Performances basieren auf Scores, generieren und modifizieren sie. Auch die Tanzwissenschaft hat Scores als tanzspezifische Medien entdeckt. Dabei reicht das Verständnis eines Scores von der einzelnen, spontan entstandenen Linie auf einem Blatt Papier über komplexe Konzepte oder schriftliche Bewegungsanweisungen bis hin zu äußerst diffizilen (Zeichen-)Systemen.
by: Miriam Althammer / Anja K. Arend / Anna Wieczorek (Ed.)
Edited by: epodium
Who: Rose Breuss, Maria Shurkhal
Furthermore in order to pursue this artistic investigation, we also developed a library of MaxForLive devices (TesserAkt) that interface with the DMX lights system This library is open source and freely available for other artist-researchers to use and expand on:
Image by: ICDS6
Research paper on sketches from our research process investigating spatial qualities in eurhythmics performance as a specific audio-corporeal practice, within the context of the artistic research project ‘Atlas of Smooth Spaces’.
Where: Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh USA
When: 2023-08-04, 8:30h
Leonhard Horstmeyer, Hanne Pilgrim
Adrián Artacho, Leonhard Horstmeyer, Markus Kupferblum, Hanne Pilgrim
In Cooperation with:
FAR – Fashion and Robotics. (University of Art and Design Linz in cooperation with the Johannes Kepler University Linz.
The cooperation consists of the realization of Motion Capture of a dance solo from a famous repertoire (“Angst” by Dore Hoyer)
The technology used was::
Vicon motion tracking with 6 infrared cameras Vero. The obtained data will be analyzed with the software Nexus (version 12).
Researchers involved:
Julio Andrés Escudero (FAR)
Damián Cortés Alberti, Adrián Artacho, Leonard Horstmayer
Sample of raw date of motion capture:
Experimental notation resulted from the analysis of the motion capture.
The TesserAkt library is a collection of MaxForLive devices designed for real-time midi manipulation. These devices were developed in the context of the Fraktale Lab, within the artistic research project Atlas of Smooth Spaces (FWF 640) at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna.
Dieses Werk wurde mit freundlicher Unterstützung des österreichischen Bundesministeriums für Kunst, Kultur, öffentlicher Dienst und Sport realisiert.
This environement is developed and mantained by Adrian Artacho. The online repository can be found here:
https://bitbucket.org/AdrianArtacho/tesserakt/
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Tesser_cmd | Launches a function based on midi input |
| tesser_automidi | Similar to 'autotune', reshapes a midi input |
| tesser_block | Blocks CC/Midinotes dynamically |
| tesser_buffer | This device allows to save and recall bits of audio |
| tesser_cc2note | Converts a midi inout onto midinotes |
| tesser_cc2params | Maps CC input onto ranges and parameters |
| tesser_cc2signal | Create a signal-structured stream of midi |
| tesser_chains | Renames midinotes based on lists |
| tesser_clip2cc | Translates midinotes to CC values |
| tesser_clips | Launches clips via midinotes or CC |
| tesser_cue | Aural warnings to the performer |
| tesser_delay | Takes a midi input and delays it by an amount of time |
| tesser_dynamic | Manipulate note velocity in different ways |
| tesser_fade | Fades in/out (increases/reduces midi velocities) |
| tesser_fractal | Fractal Video manipulation |
| tesser_function | Manipulates midi input based on a function |
| tesser_funnel | Maps differently sized lists of midi IN/OUT values |
| tesser_gate | Open/Close the midi stream dynamically |
| tesser_gesture | Extract a gesture from a stream of midi values |
| tesser_inscore | Interfaces with INScore (midi input) |
| tesser_livescore | Score display of midi |
| tesser_mirror | Mirrors midi values dynamically based on a 'center' |
| tesser_mutate | Introduces mutation in a given midi sequence |
| tesser_note2cc | Converts midinotes onto CC |
| tesser_pedal | Specific midi keyboard pedal interface |
| tesser_pgch | Generate program change messages based on midi |
| tesser_ramp | Generates ramp of values for a given time |
| tesser_ranges | Allows/Blocks specific midi ranges dynamically |
| tesser_recall | Saves and recalls midi sequences dynamically |
| tesser_route | Routes midi input dynamically |
| tesser_scale | Scales midi input dynamically |
| tesser_signal2midi | Takes in a signal (audio) and converts it to midi |
| tesser_threshold | Allows/Blocks midi input based on threshold values |
| tesser_videoloop | Live capture looping |
| tesser_visuals | Produce visuals (Max/jitter) based on midi |
Image by: Adrián Artacho
Mut – jede stimme zählt is a participative choir performance designed to blur the lines between performers and audience. The piece is written for an 8-part choir (regardless of voice pitch), which should be roughly equal in size and distributed in the areas where the audience is located. The ninth voice is intended for the audience itself, who can also participate via their smartphones.
Where: Volkstheater Wien
When: 2023-05-21, 18h
In the article “Six memos for a pianist and a self-playing piano” we share sketches of our research process investigating spatial qualities with the the self-playing piano system CEUS by Bösendorfer which were conducted by pianist and eurhythmician Hanne Pilgrim, composer Adrián Artacho, complexity scientist Leonhard Horstmeyer and music theater director and video artist Markus Kupferblum.
Image by: Leonhard Horstmeyer
Presentation of the ‘Desire Machine’ Lab at the Rosenberg Dance Research Festival.
Where: ABPU
When: 2022-10-27, 12:00h
Collage from video Stills from Markus Kupferblum
The composition “Six memos for a pianist and a self-playing piano” emerged from a peer-to-peer interaction between Adrián Artacho and Hanne Pilgrim with the self-playing piano “CEUS” by Bösendorfer as case study on the null space of Eurhythmics. Markus Kupferblum developed a cinematic concept for the six co-created compositions by Adrián Artacho and Hanne Pilgrim.
Where: University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna
When: 2022-10-01, 20h
Image by: Leonhard Horstmeyer, Hanne Pilgrim
We gave insights into our case study on notation through description in the frame of the Symposia”rhythmik:connect“:
Where: University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna
When: 2022-10-01, 14:30h
Who: Leonhard Horstmeyer, Hanne Pilgrim
and “we listen.we move. we connect” at Royal College of Music in Stockholm:
Where: Royal College of Music, Stockholm
When: 2023-06-04, 14:30h
Who: Hanne Pilgrim
Application of the Assemlage Flow- Interaction Concept to a Dance Score.
Maria has tried to create a dance score that translates the concept of flow and interaction – the desiring machine into the movement. In order to do so, she addressed the anatomical categorisation of the movement range of the human joints:
The joins of the skeleton define the motion of the body and its limitations. Maria has developed a score based on the synovial joints and the type of movements and limitations they allow.
Image Source: Anatomy & Physiology, Connexions Web site. http://cnx.org/content/col11496/1.6/, Jun 19, 2013.
Outcomes
The score was developed in a frame of a residency at Schiede Hallein in September 2022. The work was presented in an experiemental format during the final showing of the residency and resieved positive feedback from the audience.
Image by: Mariia Shurkhal/Adrián Artacho
Desire Machine – An artistic exploration of the performative space during Schmiede Hallein 2022
Where: Schmiede Hallein (Hallein, Austria)
When: 2023-09-15, 19h
Leonhard Horstmeyer and Hanne Pilgrim conducted a workshop with eurhythmics students from Vienna and Stockholm as part of a “Learning, Teaching, Training Activity” in the Erasmus+ funded project “Eurhythmics in Education and Artistic Practice”.
Participants were ask to project the motif of a double pendulum as departure point for a movement composition “Tenyeres” from Játekók Vol.1 by György Kúrtag as musical departure point.
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Salta is a bundle of python scripts conceived to process performance data in ecological conditions.
The characteristics...
MOCO is an interdisciplinary conference that explores the use of computational technology to support and understand human movement practice (e.g. computational analysis) as well as movement as a means of interacting with computers (e.g. movement interfaces). This requires a wide range of computational tasks including modeling, representation, segmentation, recognition, classification, or generation of movement information but also an interdisciplinary understanding of movement that ranges from biomechanics to embodied cognition and the phenomenology of bodily experience.
The 8th International Conference on Movement and Computing Conference took place 22-24 June 2022 in Chicago, Illinois (USA). Adrián Artacho and Leonhard Horstmeyer presented the SmoothOperator: A Device for characterizing Smoothness in Body Movement.
Photo by: Ars Electronica
Performance together with the choir Company Of Music at the Ars Electronica 2021.
Where: Ars Electronica, Linz
When: 2021-10-11
Who: Adrián Artacho, Hanne Pilgrim, Johannes Hiemetsberger and Company Of Music
Photo by: Leonhard Horstmeyer
Kick-off Workshop (aka. Ignition Lab)
Where: Großer Saal, Rennweg 8, 1030 Wien.
When: 2021-09-01, 9h
