Pablo Palacio - Stocos

Founded by composer Pablo Palacio and choreographer Muriel Romero, INSTITUTO STOCOS is a project focused on the analysis, research and development of the interaction between body gesture, music and interactive visual imagery, integrating in a performative context abstractions taken from other disciplines such as artificial intelligence, biology, mathematics or experimental psychology. The trilogy Acusmatrix, Catexis, Stocos, the Neural Narratives series (Neural narratives1: Phantom Limb and Neural Narratives2: Polytopya), Piano & Dancer or the Marriage of Heaven and Hell, constitute some of the outcomes of this investigation. In this series of pieces the dancer’s activity evolve in a three dimensional sound space interacting with sonic and visual entities, allow a dancer to alter and extend his or her bodily presence.