Performance Fingerprints
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Performance Fingerprints is a new project I’m making with violinist and performer Ioana Petcu-Colan. I’ve built a drawing system that listens to live playing and draws in response.
The system follows changes in intensity, articulation, rhythm and texture, so the way someone plays shows up in the marks. Each session makes a different drawing, depending on what the players do and how the system behaves.
The first sessions were at Digital Arts Studios in Belfast, with Ioana and trombonist Ross Lyness. We used them to experiment. Ioana and Ross tried different ways of playing to see what the drawing would do, and the system’s limits started to shape how they played.
Each drawing is a record of one session, which is why we call them fingerprints.
Then we spent a research weekend at the Cork School of Music.
Three more people joined us there: Amy Prendergast as choreographer, Alex Petcu on percussion and Lina Andonovska on flute.
