embedded code and lighting design for wearable instrument
Artist: Sól Ey, Choreography: Marina Mascarell, Alvilda Faber Striim, Costume Design: Daphne Karstens, Performers: Alvilda Faber Striim, Paulína Šmatláková, Abraham Rademacher, Photography: Julie Rowland
Hreyfð (meaning ‘she is moved’ in Icelandic) is a wearable speaker instrument that creates sounds with gestures. The instrument is a part of my ongoing research on live electronic music that links the physical body and gestures with music performance. The aim is to find methods to perform electronic music with a vivid expression on both audible, visual, and tactile levels.
Hreyfð uses microphones and speakers to create audio feedback that are processed with a microcontroller and gyroscope signals. The feedback creates a field of audible possibilities that one can learn how to play with practice. The instrument always has its own playful, unpredictable, and organic character that the performer navigates precisely in proximity and location. With audio speakers attached to the body, the performer is directly the sound source. Thus, the physical body also acts as a sound object that moves in space; physio-spatial sound or a sonic choreography.