THE SONOTROPE
The Sonotrope is a Virtual Reality installation and performance tool, a spatial music creation and playback system for sound-artist and dancers. It enables one to capture movement as tracks of music, resulting in an interactive music sculpture, a 3D crystallized composition as recorded multi track sound score constellation with a significant visual idiom.
Synaesthesis is the title of a performance based on the Sonotrope installation or system. It shows the confrontation of an on stage creating sound-artist and two seemingly intrusive dancers.
The Sonotrope had it's first improvised performance during Cinedans 2019 at Eye Film Museum in Amsterdam (see documentation below).
Sonotrope is currently a work in progress and funded by the Creative Industries Fund NL, the Mondriaan Foundation, Tropism and the lectureship of the Netherlands Film Academy. It is a research and development trajectory of initiator Robin Noorda together with Immersive Media lecturer Jilt van Moorst and sound artist Alfred Marseille. It is also part of the new VRAcademy Amsterdam.
It's theatre performance Synaesthesis is choreographed by Heidi Vierthaler, in collaboration with dancers Luca Cacitti and Shay Partush.
Inquiries here.
The Sonotrope is a Virtual Reality installation and performance tool, a spatial music creation and playback system for sound-artist and dancers. It enables one to capture movement as tracks of music, resulting in an interactive music sculpture, a 3D crystallized composition as recorded multi track sound score constellation with a significant visual idiom.
Synaesthesis is the title of a performance based on the Sonotrope installation or system. It shows the confrontation of an on stage creating sound-artist and two seemingly intrusive dancers.
The Sonotrope had it's first improvised performance during Cinedans 2019 at Eye Film Museum in Amsterdam (see documentation below).
Sonotrope is currently a work in progress and funded by the Creative Industries Fund NL, the Mondriaan Foundation, Tropism and the lectureship of the Netherlands Film Academy. It is a research and development trajectory of initiator Robin Noorda together with Immersive Media lecturer Jilt van Moorst and sound artist Alfred Marseille. It is also part of the new VRAcademy Amsterdam.
It's theatre performance Synaesthesis is choreographed by Heidi Vierthaler, in collaboration with dancers Luca Cacitti and Shay Partush.
Inquiries here.
The internationally renowend media artist Vesna Petresin using the Sonotrope prototype in de VR studio of the Netherlands Film Academy.
Above: Jilt van Moorst demonstrating the very first rudimentary version in 2017 of the Sonotrope VR music sculpting tool. He draws a color-tone related soundtrack in the air with his right tilt brush and does a scratchy playback with his left tilt brush.
Below: sound artist Alfred Marseille and choreographer Susanne Ohmann try the first rudimentary prototype of Sonotrope. The constellation looks like floating meatballs and sounds like a pinball machine. It is a first user test proving only the principle, so please do not pay any attention to the look and sounds, as they are not designed and composed yet.
Below: sound artist Alfred Marseille and choreographer Susanne Ohmann try the first rudimentary prototype of Sonotrope. The constellation looks like floating meatballs and sounds like a pinball machine. It is a first user test proving only the principle, so please do not pay any attention to the look and sounds, as they are not designed and composed yet.
Above: Dick Rijken of the STEIM Foundation drawing the first soundtracks of Sonotrope.
Below: Very early design sketches:
Below: Very early design sketches:
