contacts - interactive sound installation with body and skin from public

Contacts is a new interactive artwork from the artists scenocosme. This artwork is perceptible by two people or more. This sensory installation is tactile and sonorous. It proposes an original and interactive staging among spectators' bodies. They are transformed into real sonorous human instruments.
A first person is invited to put his hand on the shiny ball. In contact with this object, his body gets sensitive and reactive to other living bodies. If the person remains alone, nothing happens, there is no reaction. He must invite another person to touch him. They must touch each others skin. For example, they can shake hands, caress or kiss each other. Each touch generates variable sounds. The various sonorous vibrations change with the intensity of contacts and spectators.

Contacts implicates spectators, and provokes intimate or funny situations. Couples kiss or make sonorous caress to each other, or unknown people touch their hands timidly, or many people play together... Many kind of reactions are possible. According to cultural areas, the contact with other people is different.

In this artwork, the energetic clouds of bodies are musically felt. After our previous interactive Akousmaflore, we propose an another sensory experience, but with the other persons body, known or unknown, in order to animate what we cannot detect. In this situation, energetic contacts with other human bodies become sonorous. We want to provoke, to overturn degrees of proximity that we use in our relationships with known or unknown people in public spaces.

http://www.scenocosme.com/contacts_installation_en.htm

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• sensitive
• skin
• sound
• installation
• body
• from
• public
• spectator
• interactive
• digital
• art