Stefano Scarani

The Macchina Performativa 7 is a logic system created as prototype for the realization of the chamber-opera “Patrick”. The system manages and generates real-time images through the capture of the bodies of the dancers. The images are processed relating them to other pre-recorded images and real-time effects (keying, feedback), and sincronized with the score.

The logical system has been entirely developed with Max 7.

Hardware: Microsoft Kinect, Apple MacBook Pro 9.1 (i7 4core)

Bárbara Díaz, Dolma Jover / choreography, dance

Stefano Scarani / realtime visual design

José Manuel Castro, Gonzalo Ranero, Sergio Ricard, Daniel Soriano (coordinator), Vitel S. A. / Technical support

IV Congreso Nacional y I Internacional "La Investigación en la Danza", Valencia (spain)

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Macchina Performativa 7

Composition is closely related to the  objects used to generate the sounds. Glasses and cups are not new in the  musical field: the glass harmonica is an instrument that has been  quite successful for a long time, and today it is still being found who  plays this type of delicate crystalline sound generator. However, in  this production it has been decided to dare to create something more  complex and articulated, focused on the use of the timbre peculiarities  of liquids within percussed and manipulated objects, or other elements  of sound interference, such as marbles, or the re-creation of a  pentatonic instrument reminiscent of Balinese Angbang. 

In this sense, the application of the electroacoustic medium results  in an extension of the acous- tic instruments, becoming a  meta-instrument capable of amplifying the original instrumental  characteristics, distorting them, modifying them, always in connection  with the interpretive action carried out by the percussionist. 

Composition is closely related to the  objects used to generate the sounds. 

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