THE SONOTROPE
Sonotrope motion to music performance at Cinedans
The Sonotrope is a sound 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.
The Sonotrope had it's first improvised dance performance during Cinedans 2019 at Eye Film Museum in Amsterdam and was choreographed by Heidi Vierthaler, in collaboration with dancers Luca Cacitti and Shay Partush.
Sonotrope motion to music performance at Cinedans
The Sonotrope is a sound 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.
The Sonotrope had it's first improvised dance performance during Cinedans 2019 at Eye Film Museum in Amsterdam and was choreographed by Heidi Vierthaler, in collaboration with dancers Luca Cacitti and Shay Partush.
The Sonotrope dance performance at Cinedans 2019
Extract of the Cinedans page on Sonotrope: Jilt van Moorst, Alfred Marseille and Robin Noorda, initiators of the project, talked about the artist Nathalie Miebach as one of their inspirations: Nathalie Miebach makes soundscapes inspired by natural phenomena and translates them to 3D, ‘wouldn’t it be nice if we could create something like this in VR?’. That’s the origin of The Sonostrope.
2D and 3D soundscape scores of Nathalie Miebach, the inspiration of Sonotrope.
Sonotrope audio performance at the Overkill Festival
The first Sonotrope sound-art piece was performed at the Overkill Festival 2019 in Enschede by Alfred Marseille, Jilt van Moorst and Robin Noorda. The Sonotrope installation acts as 'motion to music sculpture' and controls some modular synthesizers.
Sonotrope is an ongoing work in progress and originaly funded by the Creative Industries Fund NL, the Mondriaan Foundation, Tropism and the lectureship of the Netherlands Film Academy. It is also a workshop at the VRAcademy Amsterdam and other art academies.
A poetry version is in development as well.
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Below: Sonotrope at the Overkill Festival
The internationally renowend media artist Vesna Petresin using the Proto Sonotrope 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 in 2017. 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 in 2017. 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:
