Stage Design: Robi Voigt
Interaction Design: Stella Speziali
Dance: Mira Studer
Costume / Light: Friederike Helmes
Duration (Performance): ~40 min | Production Year: 2020
«state:lucid» is an interactive art performance with an additional installation by Robi Voigt. The goal was to explore different dream states, with a focus on entering a lucid dream state. This should be accomplished with a dancer inside a plastic wrapped cube interacting with projections made onto fog with the technology of an Xsens motion capture suit.
The music for «state:lucid» was created exclusively with the help of electroacoustic methods, such as complex FM-synthesis, subtractive synthesis, granular synthesis, physical modeling… By rotating the 4-dimensional figure of a 24-cell and projecting it onto the third dimension, the composer was able to place the different sounds in the 3-dimensional space, using the ambisonics plugin created by the ICST (Institute for Computer Music and Sound Technology) in a setup of 16 loudspeakers and 4 subwoofers.
In the center piece of the performance, the dancer was able to control the music with her motion capture suit, using acceleration, speed, rotation and positioning of different body parts. At the end of the performance, the composer leads the audience into the following installation with a music collage concluding the topic of dreams and paying tribute to the famous mathematician John Conway and his thoughts about the monster group.
The sound for the installation consisted of various virtual instruments, programmed by the composer, mimicking the physically acoustic properties of materials such as pure sapphire, gold and uranium.
The performance and installation took place at the Immersive Arts Space at the ZHdK.
