VNM Festival 2019 – Resonances

Atau Tanaka (US/UK)

Concrete Corps

Saturday, October 19, 2019

Annex, Vancouver, BC

0:55 Delearning – machine learning, EMG, and orchestra
9:33 Le Loup – sculpting growling wolves
13:24 Lifting – an ode to the Theremin
21:25 Myogram – sonification of muscle tension
29:35 Rapidregress – neural net remix, homage to Michel Waisvisz

Concrete Corps is a piece created for performer and BioMuse – a bio-electrical interface as musical instrument. BioMuse’s sensor interface captures electromyogram (EMG) biosignals that reflect dynamic muscle tensions. Biomedical electrodes make electrical contact with the skin, detecting electrical impulses of neurons as the brain commands voluntary muscle contractions. The BioMuse amplifies and converts these micro-voltages, and transmits them as digital information that is manipulated live by Tanaka, who creates mappings that shape and sculpt the sound.

http://www.ataut.net/

Video documentation Mingtao Kong.
Audio documentation Ira Jordison.