adriana sá
trans-disciplinary music
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adriana sá
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WINDOWMATTER is an on-going project series whose performances can be solo or gather up to twelve music artists. Adriana's setup includes a zither that inputs <Audiographics>, an in-development software co-imagined and coded by John Klima. The analogue input places pre-recorded samples as audio-graphical 'bread crumbs' in a 3D-world, while driving a virtual camera throughout its deserted landscape. Adriana created the world design as a moving painting; the image beamed over performer and setup is a driving picture plane. Both Sa & Klima have their personal software versions, which are ontologically different in terms of playfulness, functions, configurations, mapping criteria and audio samples. The set-up specifications provide an endless territory for musical exploration. Music unfolds with floating tonal centers. |
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EMOTIONAL OBJECT is an on-going collaboration project with John klima, Sofia Oliveira and Jared Hakney. As an interactive installation, Emotional Object is a multi-user game that invites to act upon a mechano-sculpture and a musical composition through a digital interface. The player proceeds while speculating about which emotion will result from a certain action, and about the effect of the individual over the collective. Rotating like a child's spinning top, the object, both physical and virtual, is divided in sections mapped onto 24 emotional states represented by colors and musical phrases. Each emotion provides the player with four options he has to choose from: four different actions leading to subsequent emotions. The player can only suppose about the emotional destination of an action. Players leave weights over the emotions they pass through; as these correspond to a physical location in the object, they affect its balance. The game goal is to keep the object moving and in balance; the passing through the various emotional states layers the corresponding musical phrases into an interactive soundscape. |
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THRESHOLDS is an installation structured by the sounding light instrument (custom-made light sensors, i-cube and Lisa software), which translates light gradients into sound variations. It (re)establishes relationships between the site and its environmental context. Natural and artificial light as well as body shadow affect the sound behavior in real-time according to Adriana's previous programming. Sound-source materials relate to personal site-specific memories and perceptions; they are collected on-site. The set-up offers a wide range of performative possibilities. Along the day, people are shown an orchestra of slow daylight changes playing within massive sound density; the site is here maestro. When it is dark outside, the installation invites for inter-acting upon the soundscape; shadows play the sound-pictured city. By twilight, both sorts of playfulness overlap while the soundscape features peak behaviors. |
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3 x (META)LOCAL VS. WET BEHIND THE EARS was an installation hosting performances; an unfolding exchange within Yvette Poorter's This Neck Of The Woods, in Rotterdam (a shed-sculpture to host artistic residency projects). The room Adriana slept & lived in was transformed into a musical instrument. Instrumental components were: bodiless instrument, sounding light instrument, press and rotation sensors, light percussion; Yvette projected disaster slides onto the light sensors. |
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LIFE OR LIFE - LIFE HEARD was a performance-installation in Lisbon. Adriana played the sounding light instrument with light projectors and her body shadow; other instruments were the bodiless instrument, light percussion, modular synth, press and turn sensors, prepared zither. LixoLuxo Poético was invited to play his instruments built with urban junk: milk and soda, insidefluxos, balança. |
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ELASTIC RETURN was a performance-installation within a deactivated codfish factory; developed with LixoLuxo Póetico during a residency commissioned by the Circular festival, Vila do Conde. Hanging light-sensors played the ocean through Adriana's shadow, some local tools and equipments were amplified, other instruments were built upon materials gathered on-site. |
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