Registration
These workshops are free, but registration is required as seating is limited.
Please confirm your attendance here: Robert Wechsler workshops and presentation: Movement, expression and music - registration form
To find out how to participate, please contact Ian Hattwick (ian.hattwick [AT] mail.mgill.ca
Description
*PLEASE NOTE ROOM CHANGE FOR THE FINAL DAY
Workshops [FULL]: February 29th & March 1st, 1:00-6:00pm, Room A807 (CIRMMT Conference Room) - FULL
Roundtable: March 2nd, 2:00-5:00pm, Room A832
Robert Wechsler will present two days of intensive workshops discussing the use of motion tracking technology to control sound synthesis, with a particular focus on the creation of the synaesthetic experience of "hearing movement." Among the work he is presenting is an 8-channel interactive rhythmic environment by Spanish composer Pablo Palacio. Different conceptual approaches will be discussed, and participants will be guided through the creation of their own software patches for controlling sound through movement. Participants from music performance, composition, music therapy, interactive dance, music psychology, perception, and human-computer interaction are all welcome.
ABOUT ROBERT WECHSLER
Robert Wechsler is the artistic director of Palindrome Inter.media performance Group, and is an award-wining choreographer, dancer and developer of interactive methods of performing with technology. He currently heads the MotionComposer project at Baahaus University, a dance/music device for people with disabilities.
"Robert Wechsler belongs to an avant-garde made up of those finding new paths for artistic expression and radically redefining dance…" -Süddeutsche Zeitung
