SPEAKER TREES
Created by Michael Schneider and Kerstin Gilg

Joyce Theater, New York, March 2003
Inside the Mind of a Line
Choreography and Dance: Esse Aficionado

 

Created real-time audio environment that responded to the dancer's movements and used the sound of the dancer's footsteps
Speaker Trees: constructed out of two speaker cones; one acting as a microphone, picking up the sounds of the floor, processing it and sending it back out of the top as an echo, or response to the original sound. When the user moves their hands over the flashing lights on the top the sound processing is changed.
Performance space is filled with sound sculptures that respond to the dancers footsteps creating an environment that is responsive to the people with in it and that localizes sound according to the point of origin; the sound radiates out from the point of inception.